The paper deals with the "Estimation of growth and yield" included in the National Programme on Intensive Monitoring of Forest Ecosystems CONECOFOR Aims of the paper are: i) to outline the composition and design of Level II PMPs network, also examining the structural characteristics of forest stands; ii) to describe the contents of mensurational surveys carried out in winter 1996/97 and 1999/00...

the aim of this study was to compare rainfall interception (i) in a natural forest of fagus orientalis l. with a neighboring picea abies plantation in kelardasht area, the caspian forests, north of iran. to measure gross rainfall (gr), four manual collectors were installed in an open area adjacent to the forest sites and throughfall (tf) was measured using 20 collectors randomly located underne...

For thousands of years, fire has been the main stand-replacing disturbance in the boreal forest but is now being supplemented by logging over most of the biome’s extant. Community response to such disturbances of different nature and severity has been extensively compared in plant, but rarely in animal communities. Effects of fire and logging on some groups, such as ground beetles, have been as...

Knowledge of the community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi among successional forest age-classes is critical for conserving fungal species diversity. Hypogeous and epigeous sporocarps were collected from three replicate stands in each of three forest age-classes (young, rotation-age, and old-growth) of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) dominated stands with mesic plant assoc...

Factors affecting the density and distribution of yellow-poplar regeneration after a single growing season prescribed fire were studied in mature upland oak stands in the southern Appalachian Mountains. In burned and unburned stands, density of one and two year old yellow-poplar seedlings was inventoried within 50 m from isolated yellow-poplar canopy seed trees in response to distance from seed...

The aim of this study was to determine whether forest clear-cuts during 2000–2011 could be detected as a decrease in surface height by combining Digital Surface Models (DSMs) from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and Tandem-X, and to evaluate the performance of this method using SRTM Xand C-band data as references representing the heights before logging. The study area was located in...

specific features of the structure of the ground litter invertebrate community in forest belt ecosystems in the ukrainian steppe zone have been considered. for 14 years invertebrate fauna of the litter of 176 forest belt sites with different composition has been studied with the aid of soil traps. the main characteristics of litter invertebrate communities (total population, a number of species...

In Finland, the forest resource data for management planning is traditionally collected by periodic standwise field inventories, which are usually carried-out over different regions during 10–15 year intervals. The data is used for the compilation of management plans for forest estates. Between inventories the plan and the original stand data can be used, e.g., in the operational planning of ti...

Deer (Cervidae) cause considerable damage to forest plantations, crops, and protected habitats. The most common response to this damage is to implement strategies to lower population densities. However, lowering deer density may not always be desirable from hunting, recreational, or conservation perspectives. Therefore, knowledge is needed about additional factors beyond deer density that affec...