The effects of disturbance on spatial patterns and species interactions provide critical information on community structure and species coexistence. Two standard plots of 1-ha were set, one of them was a sample plot with retrograde succession after disturbance, and the other one was undisturbed....

Gap formation and closure play important roles in forest succession. Most studies focused on regeneration within gaps, but less is known about the growth dynamics of canopy trees surrounding the gaps (i.e., gap border trees), which limits our understanding of the gap-filling process. In this study, ...

Objective: The CSR (complete spatial randomness) null model of the point pattern analysis requires that the habitat background is homogeneous, but the most factors in natural forest habitat are heterogeneous, which will inevitably influence the point pattern analysis. This paper attempts to divide...

Background: There is a serious lack of experience regarding the productive potential of the natural forests in northeastern China, which severely limits the development of sustainable forest management strategies for this most important forest region in China. Accordingly, the objective of this...

Due to the complexity of operational forestry problems, computing applications are becoming pervasive in all aspects of forest and natural resource management. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to computers and their applications in forest and natural resource management and is...

Sewage sludge (SS) application on forest plantation soils as a fertilizer/soil amendment is increasingly becoming a forestry management measure. However, the potential risk of SS-derived potentially toxic elements (PTEs) is still a cause for concern. This research was carried out to evaluate PTEs...

Objective: This paper aims to study the DBH class structure and arbor biomass of Juglans mandshurica secondary forests in different mountains in northeastern China, then provide scientific basis for follow-up related research on secondary forests and reasonable forest management in this area....

The typical natural pine(Pinus yunnanensis) pure forest in Fumin County, Yunnan Province was taken as the research object, and the stand volume was estimated by combining the acquisition of UAV images and field surveys. The single tree crown width of Yunnan pine was extracted by the visual...

The ability to measure diameter, tree height, and tree volume is of great value in forestry investigations. These three factors are not considered together when error analyses of measurement results are conducted. The aim of this study was to quantify the system error analysis of the three factors...

The parameters, including diameter at breast height and tree height of Tamarix chinensis forest in the study area, were inversed on basis of backscatter coefficient, polarimetric SAR, differential interferometry with DEM, and differential interferometry with polarization. Finally, main conclusions...