Eco-certified forestry (ECF) is defined as forest management that incorporates ecological concerns into commercial timber production. In this paper, we link the adoption of ECF practices to shifts in the timber supply function. We use a spatially disaggregated model of southeastern US timber supply to simulate the empirical relationship between variations in the price premium offered for timber...

Urban ecological restoration can produce important social benefits in addition to those biophysical improvements traditionally included in the evaluation of restoration success. Achieving social benefits requires local people to participate in planning, implementation, and evaluation of restoration. Restoration also provides experimental opportunities to study the interactions between human and...

Anthropogenic Biomes describe globally significant ecological patterns within the terrestrial biosphere caused by sustained direct human interaction with ecosystem, including agriculture, urbanization, forestry and other land uses. The present study focused on the invertebrate diversity in Marudhamalai Hills which is highly disturbed by human activities. Different techniques to identify the dis...

In this paper, a nonlinear mathematical model is proposed and analysed to study the depletion of forestry resources caused by population and population pressure augmented industrialization. It is shown that the equilibrium density of resource biomass decreases as the equilibrium densities of population and industrialization increase. It is found that even if the growth of population (whether in...

Background Control of bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) is a global problem for livestock-based extensive agriculture, conservation, recreation, game management and forestry. Bracken is controlled primarily by application of asulam or by cutting. The success of bracken control may be dependent upon ecological variables (such as habitat type and latitude) and methodological variables (such as number...

Background Control of bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) is a global problem for livestock-based extensive agriculture, conservation, recreation, game management and forestry. Bracken is controlled primarily by application of asulam or by cutting. The success of bracken control may be dependent upon ecological variables (such as habitat type and latitude) and methodological variables (such as number...

Hyperspectral sensors are devices that acquire images with narrow bands (less than 20nm) with continuous measurement. It extracts spectral signatures of objects or materials to be observed. Hyperspectral have more than 200 bands. Hyperspectral remote sensing has been used over a wide range of applications, such as agriculture, forestry, geology, ecological monitoring, atmospheric compositions a...

1 Botanic Institute of Barcelona (IBB-CSIC-ICUB), Barcelona, Spain 2 Department of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Sciences, Faculty of Geology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 3 Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain 4 Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Blanes, Girona, Spain 5 Centre for Ecological Research and Fores...

a Personality Disorder Unit, Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain b IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain c Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain d Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, Barcelona, Spain [currently at: CIBERSAM, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB-Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain] e CREAF (Centre for Ecological Research and For...

Zheng Shi*, Rebecca Sherry, Xia Xu, Oleksandra Hararuk, Lara Souza, Lifen Jiang, Jianyang Xia, Junyi Liang and Yiqi Luo* Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA; US Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA; Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC V8Z 1M5, Canada; Oklahoma Biological Survey, University of Oklaho...