Understorey evaluation is essential in wildlife habitat management, biomass storage and wildfire suppression, among other areas. The lack of a standardised methodology the field measurements, their subsequent analysis, forces researchers to look for procedures that effectively extract understorey data make management decisions corresponding actual stand conditions. In this sense, when analysing...

Orchard evapotranspiration (ET) is a complex flux which has been the subject of many studies. It often includes transpiration from trees, cover crops and weeds, evaporation soil, mulches other orchard artefacts. In this study we investigated contribution floor evaporative fluxes to whole ET focusing on dynamics understorey vegetation currently not well known. Data partitioning into its constitu...

Understorey vegetation is a key component of plant biodiversity in forests. Events extreme drought are potential major driver change this layer. Although these predicted to increase frequency and duration due climate change, their impacts on understorey communities still unknown. In paper, we re-surveyed set 36 plots mature thermophilous deciduous forests eight months after the end an extremely...

Nitrogen (N), acquired by roots and mycorrhizal fungi supplied to plant foliage, is a growth-limiting nutrient at the subarctic treeline. Due this limitation, interspecific competition acquisition of N an important control on community composition distribution. The ability trees shrubs access shapes dynamics ecotone undergoing species range shifts changes in primary productivity driven climate ...