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an area of woodland, historically, one owned by the sovereign and set apart as a hunting ground with its own laws and officers.
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2006) found that adding Quickbird and SAR/InSAR forest structure metrics to Lidar resulted in no improvement for estimating biomass across 120 circular 0.
Mapping forests with Lidar provides flexible, accurate data with many uses
Overall results showed that the traditional utilization have a negative effect on forest characters and forest structure (vertical and horizontal structure).
Study of forest structure in pruned (Galazani) and undisturbed stand in the Northern Zagros forest (Case study: Baneh, Kurdistan province)
TABLE II DASOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STUDIED FOREST Standard Frequency Forest structure variables deviation distribution Average DBH (cm) Trees/ha DBH 8.
Above-ground biomass accumulation and growth in a marginal Nothofagus macrocarpa forest in Central Chile/Acumulacion de biomasa aerea y crecimiento en un bosque marginal de Nothofagus macrocarpa en Chile Central/Acumulacao de biomassa aerea e crescimento em um bosque marginal de Nothofagus macrocarpa no Chile Central
To assess the response of species to differences in forest structure (disturbance), we first reduced the number of forest structure variables using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), thus restraining the number of control variables and avoiding collinearity.
En bosques secos de roble las epifitas vasculares muestran resistencia a la alteracion humana, Cordillera Oriental, Colombia
No field measurements were taken to examine these relationships in the present study and further detailed field studies to determine relationships between PAI, forest structure and spectral vegetation indices are clearly warranted for comparison among sites (Kalascka et al.
SRTM-DEM and Landsat ETM+ data for mapping tropical dry forest cover and biodiversity assessment in Nicaragua
Fifth, seed harvest and grazing are likely to act like hunting (Redford, 1992), so that human impact may be discernible in the small mammal community, even though it can not be seen in forest structure.
Human use and small mammal communities of Araucaria forests in Neuquen, Argentina
We annually assessed diameter and height growth as well as stem condition and indices of crown lighting and forest structure.
TREE GROWTH, MORTALITY, PHYSICAL CONDITION, AND MICROSITE IN OLD-GROWTH LOWLAND TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
Forest structure has been affected by both natural and human disturbances since European settlement.
Two centuries of forest compositional and structural changes in the Alabama Fall Line Hills
The certified FRs were established to demonstrate how responsible forest management may enhance forest structure through sustainable resources utilisation.
Does forest certification enhance forest structure? Empirical evidence from certified community-based forest management in Kilwa District, Tanzania/La certification forestiere ameliore-t-elle la structure forestiere? Preuves empiriques tirees de la gestion d'une foret a base communautaire dans le district de Kilwa en Tanzanie
A treatment that combines a shelterwood seed step with a removal step is similar to even-aged harvests such as clearcuts with respect to the resulting forest structure and composition.
Large-tree removal in a mixed-conifer forest halves productivity and increases white fir
Objective: ForeStMap aims at developing an innovative methodology to derive 3-D information on forest structure at different scales, local to regional, based on a multi-source RS data (multispectral, LiDAR and SAR).
FORESTMAP: 3D Forest Structure Monitoring and Mapping
Forest structure: To determine mangrove forest structure the Point-Centered Quarter Method (PCQM) was used (Cintron & Novelli 1984).
Description of the Panama and Iguanita mangrove stands of Bahia Culebra, North Pacific coast of Costa Rica

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