Starck, Michael Heidel, Andreas Brischke, Christian Militz, Holger
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
For nearly 200 years wooden railway sleepers are impregnated with creosote. After initially using vacuum pressure processes for impregnation, empty-cell processes have been developed quickly and are used until today. Because of political developments and its alarming properties against human health and environment the use of creosote is already res...
Cao, Qianqian Dettmann, Garret T. Radtke, Philip J. Coulston, John W. Derwin, Jill Thomas, Valerie A. Burkhart, Harold E. Wynne, Randolph H.
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Many National Forest Inventory (NFI) stakeholders would benefit from accurate estimates at finer geographic scales than most currently implemented in operational estimates using NFI sample data. In the past decade small area estimation techniques have been shown to increase precision in forest inventory estimates by combining field observations and...
Becknell, Justin M. Vargas G., German Wright, Lacey A. Woods, Natalie-Francesca Medvigy, David Powers, Jennifer S.
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Lianas are thought to be increasing and altering tree growth and ecosystem productivity in tropical forests, but less research has focused on secondary or seasonally dry tropical forest. We report on an 11-year study of tree growth and liana presence from Guanacaste, Costa Rica, where we measured the diameter growth and liana presence on more than ...
Uchida, Eiko M. Katayama, Ayumi Yasuda, Yuko Enoki, Tsutomu Otsuki, Kyoichi Koga, Shinya Utsumi, Yasuhiro
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Compared to trees, little is known about the respiratory characteristics of bamboo, especially culm respiration. In this study, we measured the respiration rates of current year, 2, 3, and above 4-year-old Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) culms and examined its relation to culm morphology and anatomical structure. Current year culms had substa...
Gerolamo, Caian Souza Costa, Flavia R. C. Zuntini, Alexandre R. Vicentini, Alberto Lohmann, Lúcia G. Schietti, Juliana Rocha, Elisangela X. Angyalossy, Veronica Nogueira, Anselmo
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Plant distribution patterns may indicate habitat specialization either by closely related species with conserved traits or by phylogenetically distant species with converging traits. Lianas represent a large proportion of the overall tropical species diversity and abundance. Despite their importance, little is known about the relationship between h...
Vastaranta, Mikko Wulder, Michael A. Hamari, Juho Hyyppä, Juha Junttila, Samuli
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Imron, Muhammad Ali Widyastuti, Kirana Al Bihad, Dennis Satria, Ryan Adi Prayoga, Wiwid Pradopo, Subyantoro Tri Suryatmojo, Hatma Sopha, Bertha Maya Harrison, Mark E. Berger, Uta
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Fire is considered a major threat to biodiversity in many habitats and the occurrence of fire has frequently been used to investigate the effectiveness of protected areas. Yet, despite the known importance of tropical peatlands for biodiversity conservation and serious threat that anthropogenically induced fires pose to this ecosystem, the influenc...
Carrasco, Laureano Oliva Bucci, Sandra J. Scholz, Fabian G. Loto, Dante Gasparri, Ignacio Goldstein, Guillermo Campanello, Paula I.
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Stem capacitance and water storage are known to play an important role in the water economy of trees by acting as an intermediate water source for transpiring leaves. The bark, in addition to be involved in protection and mechanical support of the trees, can also serve as a water reservoir. We examined the relationship between inner bark and sapwoo...
Massinga, Jadwiga Lisboa, Sá Nogueira Virtanen, Pekka Sitoe, Almeida
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Tropical deforestation is considered a global priority due to its environmental, social, and economic impacts at international, national, and household levels. Conservation policies constitute one of the pathways to reverse this scenario. This paper examines the influence of forest protection measures on local communities’ livelihood decisions rega...
Sagar, Rubin Devy, M. Soubadra
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Anthropogenic disturbances are a pressing driver of forest degradation and are known to affect the microclimate within forests. Most organisms experience the microclimate and hence, associated changes may drive species communities in rainforests. However, such knowledge remains limited in the case of forest canopies, especially in south Asia. We ai...
