The sensors measure temperature and humidity, and will provide a long term perspective on how changes in the forest structure are related to microclimate changes in the edge of fragments.
Effects of flooding duration on species richness, floristic composition and forest structure in river margin habitat in Amazonian Blackwater floodplain forests: Implications for future design of protected areas.
They showed that the interactions between the timber and water productions change according to the assumed relationships between forest structure and the values.
No visual changes in shape or size of the fragment could be observed in the Landsat satellite imagery from 1975 and no logging has been reported since the 1960s, therefore, forest structure and edges might be considered to be stabilised.
He uses patterns of tree rings to understand the influence of historic human impacts and natural processes on forest structure, function, and composition.
Microclimatic variations are very important to forest structure and composition, and plants usually grow more densely at forest edges--creating a buffer zone that can minimize the impacts of abiotic effects originating in the deforested matrix (Williams-Linera, 1990; Gascon et al., 2000).
The resulting forest is more open, allows for a more productive understory, and has a mosaic forest structure of tree clumps of varying densities and sizes.