diameter is such a notable characteristic in forest inventory that it is important to have a suitablemethod of its measurement, especially in coppice trees. this seems more important in zagros foreststhat most of them are covered with coppice trees. so this research was aimed to find an efficientmethod in studying the diameter at root collar (drc) of persian oak coppice trees as the mostimporta...

knowing and conducting studies on size characters of trees is essential for assessing the tree volumeand/or other statistical parameters and also forest management. the characteristics of 529 treesincluding diameter at breast height (dbh) and total height were measured in an even-aged fraxinusstand for two periods from 2005 to 2012 in chelir district, a part of experimental kheyrud forest.resul...

Eight jack pine (Pinus banksiana) stands in northern lower Michigan were sampled to evaluate the potential of dendroecological methods for studying stand dynamics with young trees. At each stand, a minimum of 20 dominant and codominant trees were cored, and at two stands additional recruitment data were collected. The cores were all cross-dated and measured. The raw ring widths were used to ide...

Seedlings of several species of gymnosperm trees, angiosperm trees, and angiosperm lianas were grown under tropical field conditions in the Republic of Panama; physiological processes controlling plant C and water fluxes were assessed across this functionally diverse range of species. Relative growth rate, r, was primarily controlled by the ratio of leaf area to plant mass, of which specific le...

Despite the importance of financial outcomes to stand-level forest management decision-making, long-term assessments are rare. We compared quality and value mixed, northern conifer (Picea–Abies–Tsuga) stands in Maine, USA, treated with a range silvicultural systems exploitive cuttings for 65 years. Ten replicated treatments — single-tree selection uniform shelterwood systems, commercial clearcu...

Alternative silvicultural treatments such as thinning can be used to restore forested watersheds and reduce wildfire hazards, but the hydrologic effects of these treatments are not well defined. We evaluated the effect of two shelterwood-with-reserve silvicultural prescriptions, one leaving residual trees evenly distributed (SE) and the second leaving residual trees in groups (SG), both with 50...

The San Francisco Bay Area was home to some of the most celebrated valley oak lands in California, their grandeur much chronicled by early visitors and residents. Despite extensive loss, there remains substantial local interest in their preservation and restoration, necessitating an understanding of historical distribution and subsequent change. Assembling and interpreting historical and curren...

Laser scanner data can be used to describe the state of forests and its changes as a base for forest management activities. An automatic evaluation of typical forest parameters using laser scanner data enables the detection of trees with minimal user interaction. This paper describes an algorithm for detecting trees in a semi-automatic way. The detection runs in several steps beginning with fil...