Forest regeneration in changing environments

The changing Amazon forest

Long-term monitoring of distributed, multiple plots is the key to quantify macroecological patterns and changes. Here we examine the evidence for concerted changes in the structure, dynamics and composition of old-growth Amazonian forests in the late twentieth century. In the 1980s and 1990s, mature forests gained biomass and underwent accelerated growth and dynamics, all consistent with a wide...

Continuous localization in changing environments

Continuous localization is a technique that allows a robot to maintain an accurate estimate of its location by performing regular, small corrections to its odometry. Continuous localization uses an evidence grid representation, a common representation scheme that is used by other map-dependent processes, such as path planning. Although techniques exist for building evidence grid maps, most are ...

Changing the Gap Dynamics Paradigm: Vegetative Regeneration Control on Forest Response to Disturbance

Understanding the manner in which changes in disturbance regimes will affect forest biodiversity is an important goal of global change research. Prevailing theories of recruitment after disturbance center on the role of pioneer species; predictions of forest biodiversity focus almost exclusively on dispersal and shade tolerance while vegetative reproduction is virtually omitted from models and ...

Active Learning in Changing Environments

Adaptive Learning in Changing Environments