Environmental and nature management can not operate effectively without reliable information on changes in the environment and on the causes of those changes. Ecological monitoring can represent an important source of information. However, many operational monitoring programs are not very effective, i.e., not very useful for decision-making. We present a conceptual framework for the development...

Biodiversity conservation is a required co-benefit of REDD+. Biodiversity monitoring is therefore needed, yet in most areas it will be constrained by limitations in the available human professional and financial resources. REDD+ programs that use forest plots for biomass monitoring may be able to take advantage of the same data for detecting changes in the tree diversity, using the richness and...

Forest-BGC is a well-known and widely-used general ecophysiological model of forest ecosystem processes for regional applications. It's used to simulate the annual hydrologic balance and the Net Primary Production (NPP) of forests. The net flux of carbon between the atmosphere and terrestrial vegetation can be expressed on an annual basis in terms of NPP. This way, NPP is a key variable for a w...

This study focuses on the carrying capacity estimation for Darkesh forest in Northeast Iran. Four factors were used for estimating the carrying capacity including tourist flows, size of the area, optimum space available for each tourist, and visiting time. Results showed that the physical carrying capacity was 2727 ha or 165 visitors/day, while the real carrying capacity was 2719 ha or 132 visi...

Tracking the response of forest ecosystems to climate change demands large (≥1 ha) monitoring plots that are repeatedly measured over long time frames and arranged across macro-ecological gradients. Continental scale networks of permanent forest plots have identified links between climate and carbon fluxes by monitoring trends in tree growth, mortality and recruitment. The relationship between ...

accompanying forest species by nitrogen supply. The genus Alnus includes some fast-growing species adapted to various ecological situations (Martin, 1985). Genetic improvement programs are being developed to produce effective clonal varieties able to grow under various ecological conditions. Controlled hybridizations (intraspecific and interspecific) were carried out to obtain improved progenie...

six catchment areas of fars, where belong to bioclimatic zone of deciduous temperate forests of palearctic realm, first were . surveyed, and mapped (scale:1: 100,000). then, after ecological and socio economic data analysis and integration, the ecosystem map (mapping unit) of the area was depicted (makhdoum 1992). the ecological capability of catchment areas for agriculture, range management, f...

Ecological restoration of abandoned, formerly forested farmland can improve the delivery of ecosystem services and benefit biodiversity conservation. Restoration programs can involve removing isolated, non-native trees planted by farmers for fruit or wood. As such “legacy” trees can attract seed dispersers and create microclimates that help native seedlings to establish, removing them may actua...