Ground Cover—Biomass Functions for Early-Seral Vegetation

Differences in Early Conifer Performance in Young Seral Vegetation of the CWHdm Subzone

Non-crop vegetation on regenerating forest lands is often viewed as being uniformly detrimental to the establishment and growth of commercial tree species. This assumption is ingrained in our traditional concepts of land stewardship and efficient commodity production. The “freegrowing” designation for a regenerated stand defines the extent of basic silviculture for which forest licensees are re...

Avian Species Richness in Relation to Intensive Forest Management Practices in Early Seral Tree Plantations

BACKGROUND Managers of landscapes dedicated to forest commodity production require information about how practices influence biological diversity. Individual species and communities may be threatened if management practices truncate or simplify forest age classes that are essential for reproduction and survival. For instance, the degradation and loss of complex diverse forest in young age class...

Vegetation Ground-based Models in Crop State Monitoring

The development of efficient algorithms for multispectral and multitemporal data analysis is still one of the most essential issues of remote sensing. The importance of this issue is related to the ever-increasing quantity of data provided by numerous radiometric and imaging sensors. Besides, the necessity to use various geoinformation technologies incorporating remote sensing, in-situ observat...

Modelling Above ground net primary production of Sabalan rangelands using vegetation index and non-linear regression

Background and objectives: Alongside with the progresss in satellite sensors, their role on obtaining information and study of the environmental events and phenomena have become increasingly important. One of these precious data which is the basis for many planning and decision making in rangelands, is the above ground net primary production assements. The traditional method of estimating ANPP ...

Above-Ground Net Primary Production, Leaf Area Index, and Nitrogen Dynamics in Early Post-Fire Vegetation, Yellowstone National Park