landscape metrics quantifies structural features of the landscape. one of the advantages of these metrics is a possibility to use them in fast cumulative assessment of the development activities in the environment. in this paper, the cumulative effects of road network expansion on the tree cover of gorgan, kordkuy, aliabad townships in golestan province were investigated. to prepare the require...

to detection of suitable sampling method to study tree canopy cover in the northern zagros forest, baneeh region forest, kurdistan province, and west of iran was selected. 40 square sample plots one hectare (100×100 m) were selected and perfect inventoried. in every sample plot the position of tree, kind of species and two diameter of crown (m) were recorded. to study of canopy cover different ...

By definition, web-services composition works on developing merely optimum coordination among a number of available web-services to provide a new composed web-service intended to satisfy some users requirements for which a single web service is not (good) enough. In this article, the formulation of the automatic web-services composition is proposed as several set-cover problems and an approxima...

We show how a simple hierarchical tree called a cover tree can be turned into an asymptotically more efficient one known as a net-tree in linear time. We also introduce two linear-time operations to manipulate cover trees called coarsening and refining. These operations make a trade-off between tree height and the node degree.

Questions: How do fire frequency, tree canopy cover, and their interactions influence cover of grasses, forbs and understorey woody plants in oak savannas and woodlands? Location: Minnesota, USA. Methods: We measured plant functional group cover and tree canopy cover on permanent plots within a long-term prescribed fire frequency experiment and used hierarchical linear modeling to assess plant ...

in order to investigate variations in plant diversity in dr. dorostkar's forest reservoir, located in gisoum talesh, 44 sampling plots were applied by the randomized-systematic method. the diameter of all tree species (dbh?5 cm) was measured in 400 m2 (20×20 m) square sampling plots. in addition, the number of individuals of shrubs and saplings (dbh?5 cm) were enumerated in circular 100 m2...

objective: citrus (citrus reticulata) is one of the most important horticultural plant in iran and weed management throuth ecological methods such as cover crop is a proper option in orchard management practices. methods: the experiment was designed as a split plot on the base of complete randomized block design with four replications in mazandaran province, sari, voushka county from 2010 to 20...