-Timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horrid=) and Louisiana pine snakes (Pituophis melanoleucus ruthvenq are large-bodied snakes occurring on the West Gulf Coastal Plain. Both species are thought to be declining .due to increasing habitat alteration. Timber rattlesnakes occur in closed canopy hardwood and pine-hardwood forests, and Louisiana pine snakes in pine forests on sandy, well drained soils. W...

North Carolina’s forest disturbance and timber production assessed using time series Landsat observations Chengquan Huang, Pui-Yu Ling & Zhiliang Zhu To cite this article: Chengquan Huang, Pui-Yu Ling & Zhiliang Zhu (2015): North Carolina’s forest disturbance and timber production assessed using time series Landsat observations, International Journal of Digital Earth, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2015...

Timber harvesting has been shown to have both positive and negative effects on forest dwelling species. We examined the immediate effects of timber harvests (clearcuts and group selection openings) on ectotherm behavior, using the eastern box turtle as a model. We monitored the movement and thermal ecology of 50 adult box turtles using radiotelemetry from May-October for two years prior to, and...

In this study, the support vector machine (SVM) was applied and validated by using the geographic information system (GIS) in order to map landslide susceptibility. In order to test the usefulness and effectiveness of the SVM, two study areas were carefully selected: the PyeongChang and Inje areas of Gangwon Province, Korea. This is because, not only did many landslides (2098 in PyeongChang and...

In Central Europe transportation accounts for an estimated 30% of the total costs of round timber and is an essential element of cost. In this paper, Tabu Search based methods for solving the Timber Transport Vehicle Routing Problem (TTVRP) are presented. The TTVRP uses solutions of preceding optimization problems as input that are obtained with standard solver software. The presented methods d...

Across the globe and in the U.S., it is anticipated that forest resources in rural and urban settings will be affected by climate-change induced impacts to forest growing conditions, including CO 2 fertilization and disturbance regimes. These changing forest conditions are projected to trace through to changes in management regimes, production practices, and, potentially, the uses of timberland...

Individual tree mapping in the forest is usually done by several techniques such as the sequential target and point origin mapping. Generally, the estimation of standing timber volume operation is considered a difficult task as ground survey is expensive. Most of this task is being done on the ground and takes a lot of time to be accomplished. However, the use of airborne remote sensing such as...

Tropical timber plantations provide a variety of environmental services, including recovery of biodiversity on degraded lands. For example, plantations can speed forest successional processes by improving microsite conditions and attracting seed dispersers, thus promoting woody regeneration. Timber species have been hypothesized to differ in understory recruitment success. In the present resear...

2 Variation of colour and selected physical and mechanical properties related to artificial drying of sawn silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) timber from plantations Veikko Möttönen Dissertationes Forestales 13 3 Möttönen, V. 2005. Variation of colour and selected physical and mechanical properties related to artificial drying of sawn silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) timber from plantations. ...

Issue For a variety of reasons, community forestry is not always well suited to existing forest certification schemes. Using the case of Nepal, this paper considers the extent to which promoting the trade in non‐ timber forest products can complement, or even provide an alternative to, forest certification for timber while promoting sustainable community forestry. The paper develops recent work...