BACKGROUND Estimates of live-tree carbon stores are influenced by numerous uncertainties. One of them is model-selection uncertainty: one has to choose among multiple empirical equations and conversion factors that can be plausibly justified as locally applicable to calculate the carbon store from inventory measurements such as tree height and diameter at breast height (DBH). Here we quantify t...

Key message In beech stands, thinning affects growth differently along tree stems, with higher and longer duration increment at stem base than crown while unmanaged stands depict opposite patterns. Abstract Forest management individual dynamics different levels of the bole. Here, we assessed stem-growth patterns as a function bole height (stem base) competition reduction using high-resolution d...

The Metabolic Ecology Model predicts that tree diameter (D) growth (dD/dt) scales with D(1/3). Using data on diameter growth and height-diameter relationships for 56 and 40 woody species, respectively, from forests throughout New Zealand, we tested one prediction and two assumptions of this model: (i) the exponent of the growth-diameter scaling relationship equals 1/3 and is invariant among spe...

Estimating the diameter increment of forests is one most important relationships in forest management and planning. The aim this study was to provide insight into application two machine learning methods, i.e., multilayer perceptron artificial neural network (MLP) adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), for developing models Hyrcanian forests. For purpose, diameters at breast height (DBH...

To enhance the performance of overlay multicast networks, the overlay multicast tree should be optimized. This optimization problem is a minimum diameter, degree-limited spanning tree (MDDLST) problem which is known to be NP-Hard. We present a new scheme to optimize an overlay multicast tree dynamically. Our algorithm can adapt the tree structure to the dynamic membership and network situation....

We use psychophysical techniques to investigate the neural mechanisms subserving suprathreshold chromatic discrimination in human vision. We address two questions: (1) How are the postreceptoral detection mechanism responses combined to form suprathreshold chromatic discriminators? and (2) How do these discriminators contribute to color perception? We use a pedestal paradigm in which the subjec...

OBJECTIVES Recent guidelines recommend that all cirrhotic patients should undergo endoscopic screening for esophageal varices. That identifying cirrhotic patients with esophageal varices by noninvasive predictors would allow for the restriction of the performance of endoscopy to patients with a high risk of having varices. This study aimed to develop a decision model based on classification and...

Airborne lidar (Light Detection And Ranging) is a proven technology that can be used to accurately assess aboveground forest biomass and bio-energy feedstocks. The overall goal of this study was to develop a method for assessing aboveground biomass and component biomass for individual trees using airborne lidar data in forest settings typical for loblolly pine stands (Pinus taeda L.) in the sou...