[PDF] Top 20 Chestnut high forest stands: biometrical study in the north of Portugal

... sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) in high forest stands is a lucrative ...Furthermore, forest producers are interested of new on this species and decision criteria for ... See full document

... Litter of the year, in each sample, was separated into the fractions: leaves, branches, fruits and ...means of dry incineration method. The analytical determinations of N, ... See full document

... similar in the three old chestnut stands ...quantities of litterfall were observed here. This discrepancy can be due to the different methodologies used to collect the ... See full document

... present study complements the studies of Ferreira et ...flow in the same burnt area but addressed the role of parent material, comparing a burnt eucalypt stand on granite ... See full document

... importance in the analysis of forest stands, especially in multi-species ones, as a tool to evaluate stand structure and bring to light the differences in stand ... See full document

... is the regression estimation method, in which the stand biomass is predicted through the sum of the predicted bio- mass of individual ...trees. In this ... See full document

... kind of information. Therefore, traditional broadleaves species as chestnut (Castanea sativa ...representative in the global context and with spotted distribution, are poorly ...sampled. ... See full document

... rate of recovery are crucial for early erosion control (Nunes et ...considering the uncertain weather condi- tions, typical of the ...Mediterranean. In fact, Llovet et al. (2009) report ... See full document

... Nowadays, the use of allometric equations for the prediction of tree biomass is quite ...allow the estimation of total biomass or tree‐component biomass using dendrometric ... See full document

... m of height growth. The thinning cycle ad- justs to the growth rate of the stand over time, and the considered height incre- ments are consistent with the thinning ... See full document

... During the decomposition process, the leaf remain- ing quantities of N, P, K, Ca, Mg and C decreased in all sites, though with more evident variations for K in Bornes and ...for ... See full document

... phytosociological study of the dry forest communities of the Dominican ...total of 69 relevés in dry forest biotopes were carried out. The samples ... See full document

... that the highest susceptibility areas for ro- tational movements overlap quite well with lithological unit 1, pointing out the importance of “Abadia beds” as the main conditioning factor for ... See full document

... Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho foi propor novos modelos volumétricos de dupla entrada para aplicação na quantificação do volume de madeira de árvores no Brasil baseando-se nas segu[r] ... See full document

... review of the Siberian stone pine stands' formation near settlements in Tomsk region is given in historical ...dynamics of forest inventory indices have been identified. ... See full document

... 2012. The sam- pling design was an adaptation of the method used in Portuguese National Forest Inventory (AFN, 2009) for minor trees assessment, and consisted of a combination ... See full document

... made in this study have unclear conse- quences on our understanding of feedbacks in plant–insect interactions (since MPBs are thought to respond mainly to BVOC emanating from trunks), whereas ... See full document

... this study shows the usefulness of SAR backscattering data on forest biomass mapping, which allows to have spatially explicit AGB distribution within the forest ...site. ... See full document

... role in marginal regions of Europe where livestock production has been the traditional form of ...With the expected climate change and increased emphasis on sustainable agriculture it ... See full document

... Despite the accuracy and extensive mapping capability of airborne LiDAR, it too reaches geographic limits due to cost and logistics, so methods are required to extend LiDAR- based ACD samples to even larger ... See full document