Forests interact with the local climate through a variety of biophysical mechanisms. Observational and modelling studies have investigated the effects of forested vs. non-forested areas, but the influence of forest management on surface temperature has received far less attention owing to the...

Accurate identification and thematic mapping of forest tree species are of great importance for forest management and scientific research. The Dagujia Forest Farm was used as the research area to identify the tree species and thematic maps by using the six Sentinel 2 remote sensing images. Random...

The effects of abiotic and biotic factors on plant stoichiometry have been widely reported at the global scale. However, stand age has not always been considered and its effect on stoichiometry showed large uncertainties at the global scale. In this study, we examined the role of stand age in leaf...

Modern forestry is gradually moving towards man-made forests on a large scale. Plantations with advanced forestry system have been introduced with the goal of sustainable forestry development and to enhance social, ecological, and economic benefits. Forest plantations with native and exotic species ...

Gardenia jasminoides is an important ornamental greening plant with medicinal and edible values. This study investigated volatile constituents, alcoholic components and physiological activities on flowers of G. jasminoides Ellis and its variety. It was found that a total of 56 volatile components...

The rhizosphere controls soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling via rhizodeposition. However, rhizosphere effects on soil C mineralization (C_min) and net N mineralization (N_min) rates have rarely been quantified at the global scale. We performed a meta-analysis of 1875 pairwise observations from...

Objective: To explore a more efficient and low-biased tree height prediction method, improve the prediction accuracy of tree height, and to establish a multi-hidden layer neural network model of height- diameter is based on deep learning algorithm. Method: Using a set of 2898 groups of tree height...

The mortality of trees across diameter class model is a useful tool for predicting changes in stand structure. Mortality data commonly contain a large fraction of zeros and general discrete models thus show more errors. Based on the traditional Poisson model and the negative binomial model,...

Sustainable management of oak forest has a great realistic significance to optimize stand structure, improve biodiversity, and increase ecological and economic benefits of the plantation in China. This paper introduced the present situation of forest management of sawtooth oak (Quercus acutissima), ...

Forest biomass plays an essential role in forest carbon reservoir studies, biodiversity protection, forest management, and climate change mitigation actions. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), especially the polarimetric SAR with the capability of identifying different aspects of forest structure,...