Multivariate methods applied to forest ecology in dry forest

Forest Ecology

Fire is a potentially powerful tool for achieving desired conditions of forest ecosystems. From an ecological perspective, the use of fire requires affirmative answers to either of the following questions: (1) Does it increase ecosystem health and sustainability? and (2) Does it preserve or restore unique species or habitats? Health and sustainability can be measured and defined in terms of: (1...

Tropical Forest Community Ecology

Constraint Technology Applied to Forest Treatment Scheduling

Forest treatment planning and scheduling is an important part of forest resource management. It is a complex task requiring expertise and integration of multi-disciplinary fields. In this paper, we outline a real life problem from the ECOPLAN project called the Long Term Forest Treatment Scheduling Problem (LTFTSP). A review of optimization techniques applicable to forest treatment problems in ...

QTL tools applied to forest breeding

Background In last decades, the progress of molecular techniques, bioinformatics tools and genome analysis equipment allowed genomes to be sequenced and analyzed for several plants. For Eucalyptus, the combination of quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping with genomic analyses, has allowed the identification and validation of a few genomic regions involved in growth and wood quality characters. ...

Multitemporal Ers Analysis Applied to Forest Mapping

Examination of the physical background underlying the ERS response of forest and analysis of time series of ERS data indicates that the greater temporal stability of forest compared with many other types of land cover presents a means of mapping forest area. The processing chain necessary to make such area estimations involves reconstruction of an optimal estimate of the backscattering coeffici...