A5060822282- Forest ecology and management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
Stellenbosch University
2016-2025
University of Göttingen
2016-2025
Beijing Forestry University
2009-2023
State Forestry and Grassland Administration
2020-2023
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
1999-2016
Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango
2015
Research Institute of Forestry
2011
Chinese Academy of Forestry
2011
Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt
1999-2006
Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
2002
The fragile landscapes of the Himalayan region are highly susceptible to natural hazards, and there is ongoing concern about current potential climate change impacts. This study provides background information on India's Western Himalayas reviews evidence warming as well variability in precipitation extreme events. Understanding anticipating impacts forest ecosystems services they provide people critical. Efforts develop implement effective policies management strategies for mitigation...
National forest resource assessments and monitoring, commonly known as Forest Inventories (NFI's), constitute an important national information infrastructure in many countries. This study presents details about developments of the NFI China, including sampling plot design, uses alternative data sources, specifically • reviews evolution inventory China through 20th 21st centuries, with some reference to Europe US; highlights emergence common international themes: consistency measurement;...
Biomass is generally believed to be carbon neutral. However, recent studies have challenged the neutrality hypothesis by introducing metric indicators assess global warming potential of biogenic CO2 (GWPbio). In this study we calculated GWPbio factors using a forest growth model and radiative forcing effects with time horizon 100 years applied five life cycle assessment (LCA) case bioproducts. The change was also accounted for in LCA studies. ranged from 0.13-0.32, indicating that biomass...
Abstract Aim Understanding the biodiversity–stability relationship has become a central issue in ecology and conservation biology. Although stabilizing effects of tree species diversity on ecosystem productivity are well recorded small local communities, they remain poorly understood across scales (from to larger spatial scales). This study evaluates from large temperate forest region, considering range environmental conditions heterogeneity. Location North‐eastern China ( c . 700,000 km 2...
Our planet is facing a variety of serious threats from climate change that are unfolding unevenly across the globe. Uncovering spatial patterns ecosystem stability important for predicting responses ecological processes and biodiversity to change. However, understanding latitudinal pattern scales underlying drivers still very limited. Accordingly, this study examines at local regional scale using natural assembly forest metacommunities distributed over large temperate region, considering...
Abstract Understanding the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem productivity has become a central issue in ecology conservation biology studies, particularly when these are connected with global climate change species extinction. However, which facets of (i.e. taxonomic, functional, phylogenetic diversity) account most for variations still not understood very well. This is especially true regard to temperate forest ecosystems. In this study, we used dataset from stem‐mapped...
Trait-based approaches provide a useful framework to predict ecosystem functions under intensifying global change. However, our current understanding of trait-functioning relationships mainly relies on aboveground traits. Belowground traits (e.g. absorptive root traits) are rarely studied although these related important plant functions. We analyzed four pairs analogous leaf and woody plants in temperate forest examined how coordinated at the community-level, what extent trait covariation...
Abstract Temperate forests, especially those in the densely populated regions of world, are experiencing increasing levels habitat degradation and biological impoverishment due to subtle but pervasive chronic anthropogenic disturbances including frequent continuous grazing extraction non‐timber forest products. However, effects these subtle, on biodiversity‐productivity relationship have rarely been examined forests at different development stages. Accordingly, this study explores how...
This contribution presents an approach to model individual tree height–diameter relationships for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) in multi-size and mixed-species stands Estonia using the Estonian Permanent Forest Research Plot Network. The dataset includes 22,347 trees. main focus of study was use that is spatially explicit allowing high accuracy prediction from a minimum set predictor variables can be easily derived. Consequently, relationship modeled as function only stand quadratic mean...
Information about competition responses is mainly available for monospecific stands or mixed with a small number of species. Studies on complex multi-species and highly structured forest ecosystems are scarce. Accordingly, the objective this study was to quantify effects analyse in species-diverse afrotemperate South Africa, based an observational mapped tree positions long-term diameter increment records. The sensitivity analysed individual species involved calculation slope linear relation...