Vascular epiphytes are an understudied and particularly important component of tropical forest ecosystems. However, owing to the difficulties of access, little is known about the properties of epiphyte-host tree communities and the factors structuring them, especially in Asia. We investigated factors structuring the vascular epiphyte-host community and its network properties in a tropical monta...

We investigated population responses in physiology, morphology, and growth of mature Pinus ponderosa trees to an environmental gradient across Nebraska, USA. Ten populations from western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming were grown in three 26-year-old provenance tests from the warmest and wettest site in the east (Plattsmouth) to the intermediate site in the middle (Halsey) to the coldest and dries...

Abstract This study has quantified basic wood density and various types of shrinkage in relation to initial spacing (or planting density) tree growth based on a 48-year-old black spruce ( Picea mariana ) trial eastern Canada. A total 139 sample trees were collected from four spacings (3086, 2500, 2066, 1372 trees/ha) for this study. Analyses variance (ANOVA) show that is the most important para...

Background: The selection of superior genotypes and adapted to the edaphoclimatic conditions region introduction produces gains in productivity for forest stands. objective this study was select progenies Pinus spp. planted Lavras, Minas Gerais (MG), Brazil. Methods: experimental site located on dystrophic Haplic Cambisol. progeny test designed as a randomised complete block with 30 replicates ...

The suitability of optical IKONOS satellite data (multispectral and panchromatic) for the estimation of forest structural attributes – for example, stems per hectare (SPHA), diameter at breast height (DBH), mean tree height (MTH), basal area (BA) and volume in plantation forest environments – was assessed in this study. The relationships of these forest structural attributes to statistical imag...

Abstract The aim of this study was to model the height and diameter distributions height-diameter relationship in an old unmanaged Eucalyptus stand southeastern Brazil. at 1.30 m above soil (DBH) total (H) all 469 trees were measured. For DBH-H modeling, besides testing various traditional linear nonlinear models, inclusion class as random effect also testes. DBH H seven probability density fun...

Caesalpinia platyloba was evaluated as an alternative for the retention of atmospheric carbon and as a feasible and viable economic activity in terms of income for tropical deciduous forest (TDF) peasants in the carbon markets. A total of 110 trees of C. platyloba from plantations and a TDF in the Northwest of Mexico were sampled. Growth (increase in height, diameter, and volume curves) was adj...

Abstract Key message We studied size distributions of decay-affected Norway spruce trees using cut-to-length harvester data. The data comprised tree-level decay and severity recordings from 101 final felling stands, which enabled to analyze relationships between all trees. Distribution matching technique was used transfer the distribution into diameter at breast height (DBH) Context Stem ( Pice...

this study aims at analyzing spatial pattern and associations of fagus oriantalis lipsky in different vertical classes in intact beech forests. data collection was done in 25 ha plot in gorazbon district of educational and experimental forests of university of tehran. species and dbh of all trees with dbh > 7.5 cm were recorded. the location of each tree was determined using azimuth and distanc...