Effects of age and stand density of mother tree on seed germination, seedling biomass allocation, and seedling growth of Pinus thunbergii were studied. The results showed that age of mother tree did not have significant influences on seed germination, but it was significant on seedling biomass allocation and growth. Seedlings from the minimum and maximum age of mother tree had higher leaf mass ...

In this paper, we first define level of tree connectivity for multicast routing schemes in wireless ad hoc networks. Then given the level of tree connectivity, we examine the relation between node density required for single and double tree schemes both analytically and experimentally. For high density wireless ad hoc networks and a given level of tree connectivity, our analysis shows that the ...

Most research on the carbon content of trees has focused on temperate tree species with little information existing for tropical tree species. Questions remain regarding how much carbon can be sequestered by various tree species and in different forest climatic zones. This study was designed to investigate the variation in carbon content of selected tropical tree species and compare the carbon ...

Remote sensing and geographic analysis of woody vegetation provide means of evaluating the distribution of natural resources, patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem structure, and socio-economic drivers of resource utilization. While these methods bring geographic datasets with global coverage into our day-to-day analytic spheres, many of the studies that rely on these strategies do not capital...

Influence of wood density in tree-ring based annual productivity assessments and its errors in Norway spruce O. Bouriaud, M. Teodosiu, A. V. Kirdyanov, and C. Wirth Forest Research and Management Institute, Station Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Calea Bucovinei 73b, 725100 Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036 Russia Institute of Bi...

This paper presents an unsupervised discretization method that performs density estimation for univariate data. The subintervals that the discretization produces can be used as the bins of a histogram. Histograms are a very simple and broadly understood means for displaying data, and our method automatically adapts bin widths to the data. It uses the log-likelihood as the scoring function to se...

An important task of aging research is to find genes that regulate lifespan. Wet-lab identification of aging genes is tedious and labor-intensive activity. Developing an algorithm to predict aging genes will be greatly helpful. In this paper, we systematically analyzed topological features of proteins encoded by Drosophila melanogaster aging genes versus those encoded by non-aging genes in prot...