Considering the variety of attitudes, objectives and behaviors characterizing forest owners is crucial for accurately assessing the impact of policy and market drivers on forest resources. A serious shortcoming of existing pan-European Decision Support Systems (DSS) is that they do not account for such heterogeneity, consequently disregarding the effects that this might have on timber supply an...

The objective of this study was to assess the performance of the simulated start of the photosynthetically active season by a large-scale biosphere model in boreal forests in Finland with remote sensing observations. The start of season for two forest types, evergreen needleand deciduous broad-leaf, was obtained for the period 2003–2011 from regional JSBACH (Jena Scheme for Biosphere–Atmosphere...

In recent years, the various functions required of forests, especially the conservation of biodiversity, have been attracting increasing attention in Japan and worldwide. In Japan, 67% of national land is covered by forest, 41% of which is artificial forest (i.e., plantations). Therefore, forest biodiversity conservation efforts should also target artificial forests. In this paper, we seek to p...

Natural disturbance processes are affected by both forest management and climate change. The resulting shifts in natural disturbance processes can have profound impact on the secondary successional pathways of British Columbia forest types (Ran & Swift 2013). Building an understanding of how these systems work and their potential changes over time and space is important since many forest manage...

Time series (2003 to 2007) MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (MTCI) products were used to predict the phenology of different forest types in India. The MTCI data were corrected for noise using a temporal moving window filter and then a Fourierbased smoothing was applied without compromising annual phenological cycle. Finally, the phenological variables i.e. onset of greenness and end of senes...

Long-term measurements of insect grazing in the canopies of different Australian forest types were compared over 10 years. Forest types included rain forests (cool temperate, warm temperate, and subtropical) and dry sclerophyll, all situated within a 50 km radiusofArmidale, New South Wales. Similar methods of marking and measuring leaves in tree canopies were employed, and similar modes of anal...