نتایج جستجو برای: forest dynamics

تعداد نتایج: 539268  

2017
Sheng Yang Giorgos Mountrakis

Forests are experiencing significant changes; studying geographic patterns in forests is critical in understanding the impact of forest dynamics to biodiversity, soil erosion, water chemistry and climate. Few studies have examined forest geographic pattern changes other than fragmentation; however, other spatial processes of forest dynamics are of equal importance. Here, we study forest attriti...

Journal: :Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007
Jens Roland Stephen F Matter

Over the past 50 years, the rising tree line along Jumpingpound Ridge in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada, has reduced the area of alpine meadows and isolated populations that reside within them. By analyzing an 11-year data set of butterfly population sizes for 17 subpopulations along the ridge, we show that forest habitat separating alpine meadows decouples the dynamics of populations o...

2015
Markus Gastauer Werner Leyh João A.A. Meira-Neto

BACKGROUND To understand future changes in community composition due to global changes, the knowledge about forest community dynamics is of crucial importance. To improve our understanding about processes and patterns involved in maintaining species rich Neotropical ecosystems, we provide here a dataset from the one hectare Forest of Seu Nico (FSN) Dynamics Plot from Southeastern Brazil. NEW ...

Journal: :Global change biology 2015
Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira Stuart J Davies Amy C Bennett Erika B Gonzalez-Akre Helene C Muller-Landau S Joseph Wright Kamariah Abu Salim Angélica M Almeyda Zambrano Alfonso Alonso Jennifer L Baltzer Yves Basset Norman A Bourg Eben N Broadbent Warren Y Brockelman Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin David F R P Burslem Nathalie Butt Min Cao Dairon Cardenas George B Chuyong Keith Clay Susan Cordell Handanakere S Dattaraja Xiaobao Deng Matteo Detto Xiaojun Du Alvaro Duque David L Erikson Corneille E N Ewango Gunter A Fischer Christine Fletcher Robin B Foster Christian P Giardina Gregory S Gilbert Nimal Gunatilleke Savitri Gunatilleke Zhanqing Hao William W Hargrove Terese B Hart Billy C H Hau Fangliang He Forrest M Hoffman Robert W Howe Stephen P Hubbell Faith M Inman-Narahari Patrick A Jansen Mingxi Jiang Daniel J Johnson Mamoru Kanzaki Abdul Rahman Kassim David Kenfack Staline Kibet Margaret F Kinnaird Lisa Korte Kamil Kral Jitendra Kumar Andrew J Larson Yide Li Xiankun Li Shirong Liu Shawn K Y Lum James A Lutz Keping Ma Damian M Maddalena Jean-Remy Makana Yadvinder Malhi Toby Marthews Rafizah Mat Serudin Sean M McMahon William J McShea Hervé R Memiaghe Xiangcheng Mi Takashi Mizuno Michael Morecroft Jonathan A Myers Vojtech Novotny Alexandre A de Oliveira Perry S Ong David A Orwig Rebecca Ostertag Jan den Ouden Geoffrey G Parker Richard P Phillips Lawren Sack Moses N Sainge Weiguo Sang Kriangsak Sri-Ngernyuang Raman Sukumar I-Fang Sun Witchaphart Sungpalee Hebbalalu Sathyanarayana Suresh Sylvester Tan Sean C Thomas Duncan W Thomas Jill Thompson Benjamin L Turner Maria Uriarte Renato Valencia Marta I Vallejo Alberto Vicentini Tomáš Vrška Xihua Wang Xugao Wang George Weiblen Amy Wolf Han Xu Sandra Yap Jess Zimmerman

Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest conservation and climate protection. This review describes an international network of 59 long-term forest dynamics research sites (CTFS-ForestGEO) useful for characterizing forest responses to global change. Within v...

2015
Kazuya Nishina Seiji Hayashi

Predicting the environmental fate of Cs radionuclides in forest ecosystems is important for the effective management and assessment of radioactively contaminated forest areas. A large proportion of the radioactively contaminated areas in Japan consist of forest ecosystems, and most of these areas are artificial forests that are used for timber production [e.g., Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japon...

2016
Markus Gastauer Roosevelt P Almado Angela S Miazaki Écio S Diniz Luis C B Moreira João A.A. Meira-Neto

BACKGROUND To understand the impacts of global changes on future community compositions, knowledge of community dynamics is of crucial importance. To improve our knowledge of community composition, biomass stock and maintenance of gallery forests in the Brazilian Cerrado, we provide two datasets from the 0.5 ha Corrego Fazendinha Gallery Forest Dynamics Plot and the Corrego Fundo Gallery Forest...

Journal: :Remote Sensing 2016
Yan Yang Sassan Saatchi Liang Xu Yifan Yu Michael A. Lefsky Lee White Yuri Knyazikhin Ranga B. Myneni

Spatial variation of tropical forest tree height is a key indicator of ecological processes associated with forest growth and carbon dynamics. Here we examine the macroscale variations of tree height of humid tropical forests across three continents and quantify the climate and edaphic controls on these variations. Forest tree heights are systematically sampled across global humid tropical fore...

2014
Alvaro G. Gutiérrez Juan J. Armesto M. Francisca Díaz Andreas Huth

Increased droughts due to regional shifts in temperature and rainfall regimes are likely to affect forests in temperate regions in the coming decades. To assess their consequences for forest dynamics, we need predictive tools that couple hydrologic processes, soil moisture dynamics and plant productivity. Here, we developed and tested a dynamic forest model that predicts the hydrologic balance ...

2015
Huimin Xiang Lingling Zhang Dazhi Wen Eric J. Jokela

In order to evaluate the dynamics of carbon storage during forest succession and explore the significance of water relations and soil stability in forest environments, a study was conducted in 2011. This study investigated the dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions and its protection through aggregation along the successional forests. An experiment in South China examined pine forest (...

2017
Leonardo A. Saravia Benjamin Bond-Lamberty

1. Forests provide critical habitat for many species, essential ecosystem services, and are coupled to atmospheric dynamics through exchanges of energy, water and gases. One of the most important changes produced in the biosphere is the replacement of forest areas with human dominated landscapes. This usually leads to fragmentation, altering the sizes of patches, the structure and function of t...

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