Tree Crown Delineation Algorithm Based on a Convolutional Neural Network by José R. G. Braga, Vinícius Peripato, Ricardo Dalagnol, Matheus P. Ferreira, Yuliya Tarabalka, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Haroldo F. de Campos Velho, Elcio H. Shiguemori, Fabien H. Wagner

“…Due to the importance of those forests, there is growing interest in mapping their components and getting information at an individual tree level to conduct reliable satellite-based forest inventory for biomass and species distribution qualification. …”
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Aboveground biomass estimation in forests with random forest and Monte Carlo-based uncertainty analysis by Zizhao Li, Shoudong Bi, Shuang Hao, Yuhuan Cui

“…To solve the above problems, this study focuses on Milin County of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China as the research area and uses data from the Landsat Operational Land Imager, digital elevation models (DEM), and the national forest inventory (NFI) to extract and analyze spectral information, textural features, and terrain factors. …”
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Disponibilidade hídrica do solo e produtividade do eucalipto em três regiões da Bacia do Rio Doce Soil water availability and eucalyptus productivity in three regions of the Rio Do... by Maria José Hatem de Souza, Aristides Ribeiro, Hélio Garcia Leite, Fernando Palha Leite, Rosandro Boligon Minuzzi

“…The precipitation events occurred over the rainy seasons as well as the water balance components by Thornthwaite and Mather, in 1955, relative to the period from January 1985 to December 1998 were studied, in order to determine the influence of these components on the gain of the annual average volume of wood (m³ha-¹). To do so, the forest inventory data from the Empresa Florestal Celulose Nipo-Brasileira - CENIBRA, relative to the 3 - 7 year age range, were used. …”
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Index of biodiversity potential (IBP) versus direct species monitoring in temperate forests by Laura Zeller, Charlotte Baumann, Pierre Gonin, Lea Heidrich, Constanze Keye, Felix Konrad, Laurent Larrieu, Peter Meyer, Holger Sennhenn-Reulen, Jörg Müller, Peter Schall, Christian Ammer

“…Forest structure can – compared to conventional species-based monitoring - easily be captured during forest inventories and does not require specific taxonomic expertise. …”
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Comparison of Machine Learning Methods for Estimating Mangrove Above-Ground Biomass Using Multiple Source Remote Sensing Data in the Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam by Tien Dat Pham, Naoto Yokoya, Junshi Xia, Nam Thang Ha, Nga Nhu Le, Thi Thu Trang Nguyen, Thi Huong Dao, Thuy Thi Phuong Vu, Tien Duc Pham, Wataru Takeuchi

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Forest structure and individual tree inventories of northeastern Siberia along climatic gradients by T. Miesner, T. Miesner, U. Herzschuh, U. Herzschuh, U. Herzschuh, L. A. Pestryakova, M. Wieczorek, E. S. Zakharov, E. S. Zakharov, A. I. Kolmogorov, P. V. Davydova, S. Kruse

“…</p> <p>In this study, we present the forest inventory data aggregated per plot. Additionally, we connect the data with different remote sensing data products to find out how accurately forest structure can be predicted from such products. …”
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Mobile Laser Scanning for Estimating Tree Structural Attributes in a Temperate Hardwood Forest by Bastien Vandendaele, Olivier Martin-Ducup, Richard A. Fournier, Gaetan Pelletier, Philippe Lejeune

“…We expect our results would provide a better understanding of the potential of SLAM-based MLS systems to support in-situ forest inventory.…”
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Anthropological interference on the vegetation of Wassaniya Forest Reserve In Sokoto, Nigeria by Muhammad, Atiku

“…A forest inventory was carried out to investigate the anthropological interference on the vegetation of Wassaniya Forest Reserve in Sokoto state of northwestern Nigeria. …”
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Can timber provision from Amazonian production forests be sustainable? by Camille Piponiot, Edna Rödig, Francis E Putz, Ervan Rutishauser, Plinio Sist, Nataly Ascarrunz, Lilian Blanc, Géraldine Derroire, Laurent Descroix, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Euridice Honorio Coronado, Andreas Huth, Milton Kanashiro, Juan Carlos Licona, Lucas Mazzei, Marcus Vinicio Neves d’Oliveira, Marielos Peña-Claros, Ken Rodney, Alexander Shenkin, Cintia Rodrigues de Souza, Edson Vidal, Thales A P West, Verginia Wortel, Bruno Hérault

“…Based on data from 3500 ha of forest inventory plots, our modelling results show that the average periodic harvests of 20 m ^3 ha ^−1 will not recover by the end of a standard 30 year cutting cycle. …”
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Spatiotemporal variations in productivity and water use efficiency across a temperate forest landscape of Northeast China by Xuhua Li, Tanzeel Javaid Aini Farooqi, Chao Jiang, Shirong Liu, Osbert Jianxin Sun

“…Information on stands and selective site variables were compiled from the Forest Inventory Datasets of China. Analyses were performed with Arc-GIS. …”
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Analysing Amazonian forest productivity using a new individual and trait-based model (TFS v.1) by N. M. Fyllas, E. Gloor, L. M. Mercado, S. Sitch, C. A. Quesada, T. F. Domingues, D. R. Galbraith, A. Torre-Lezama, E. Vilanova, H. Ramírez-Angulo, N. Higuchi, D. A. Neill, M. Silveira, L. Ferreira, G. A. Aymard C., Y. Malhi, O. L. Phillips, J. Lloyd

“…To help understand causes of this variation a new individual-based model of tropical forest growth, designed to take full advantage of the forest census data available from the Amazonian Forest Inventory Network (RAINFOR), has been developed. …”
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Harmonized dataset of surface fuels under Alpine, temperate and Mediterranean conditions in Italy. A synthesis supporting fire management by Ascoli D, Vacchiano G, Scarpa C, Arca B, Barbati A, Battipaglia G, Elia M, Esposito A, Garfì V, Lovreglio R, Mairota P, Marchetti M, Marchi E, Meytre S, Ottaviano M, Pellizzaro G, Rizzolo R, Sallustio L, Salis M, Sirca C, Valese E, Ventura A, Bacciu V

“…To ensure comparability with existing vegetation classification systems, we classified each observation according to the European Fuel Map, the Corine Land Cover classes (level IV), the European Forest Types, and the forest categories of the Italian National Forest Inventory. The dataset and a photo description of each fuelbed category are available as Supplementary material. …”
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Continuous planting Eucalyptus plantations in subtropical China: Soil phenolic acid accumulation and adsorption physiognomies by Saif Ullah, Saif Ullah, Yuanyuan Xu, Yuanyuan Xu, Chengrui Liao, Wannian Li, Wannian Li, Fei Cheng, Fei Cheng, Shaoming Ye, Shaoming Ye, Mei Yang, Mei Yang

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Aboveground biomass mapping by integrating ICESat-2, SENTINEL-1, SENTINEL-2, ALOS2/PALSAR2, and topographic information in Mediterranean forests by Juan Guerra-Hernández, Lana L. Narine, Adrián Pascual, Eduardo Gonzalez-Ferreiro, Brigite Botequim, Lonesome Malambo, Amy Neuenschwander, Sorin C. Popescu, Sergio Godinho

“…When applied to the field-based validation data set (4th Spanish National Forest Inventory (SNFI-4) plots = 508), the RF-derived AGB model showed a relatively lower predictive capacity (R2 = 0.45), a higher RMSE value (25.88 Mg ha−1) and slightly biased results (−1.47 Mg ha−1), especially for larger field-derived AGB intervals. …”
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Context and future directions for integrating forest carbon into sub-national climate mitigation planning in the RGGI region of the U.S. by Rachel L Lamb, George C Hurtt, Tee Jay Boudreau, Elliott Campbell, Edil A Sepúlveda Carlo, Hong-Hanh Chu, Jennifer de Mooy, Ralph O Dubayah, Dena Gonsalves, Madeleine Guy, Nathan E Hultman, Shawn Lehman, Bennet Leon, Andrew J Lister, Cary Lynch, Lei Ma, Christopher Martin, Nathan Robbins, Alexander Rudee, Carlos E Silva, Christopher Skoglund, Hao Tang

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Features of the Territorial Distribution, Composition and Structure of Phytocenoses with the Participation of <i>Fraxinus excelsior</i>, Their Resource Qualities, Ecological and Ec... by Maxim Viktorovich Larionov, Alexey Anatolievich Volodkin, Olga Alexandrovna Volodkina, Evgeny Valentinovich Lebedev, Olga Evgenievna Khanbabayeva, Svetlana Vitalievna Tazina, Elena Anatolyevna Kozlova, Elena Evgenievna Orlova, Inna Nikolaevna Zubik, Varvara Dmitrievna Bogdanova, Mikhail Vladimirovich Vorobyev, Alena Pavlovna Demidova, Liliya Rafisovna Akhmetova, Yulia Igorevna Kondratenko, Ivan Ivanovich Goloktionov, Ekaterina Vladislavovna Soboleva, Karina Mikirtichevna Gordyushkina

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Mixed-Species <i>Acacia</i> Plantation Decreases Soil Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen Concentrations but Favors Species Regeneration and Tree Growth over Monoculture: A Thirty-Th... by Shengnan Ouyang, Liehua Tie, Xingquan Rao, Xi’an Cai, Suping Liu, Valentina Vitali, Lanying Wei, Qingshui Yu, Dan Sun, Yongbiao Lin, Arun K. Bose, Arthur Gessler, Weijun Shen

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Comparing the efficiencies of individual-scoring and complementarity-based algorithms in prioritizing existing protected areas by Yiting Wang, Feiling Yang, Chaolang Hua, Jinming Hu, Junjun Wang, Jian Zhou, Zhixue Feng, Chen Zhang, Jin Ye, Ji Zhang, Xian Leng, Ruidong Wu

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Total economic value of forest ecosystem services in Endau Rompin National Park, Johor, Malaysia by Matthew, Nitanan Koshy

“…For the latter one, a ground forest inventory, also using the purposive sampling technique, has been utilised to choose 6 plots in Peta. …”
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A CASE STUDY OF A FOREST CARBON STOCK MONITORING SYSTEM FOR REDD+ IN LAO P.D.R. by M. Nasu, T. Sano, K. Oono, Y. Wada, R. Nakada, T. Yamase, S. Tomimura, T. Furuya, G. Matteo, C. Kamusoko, Y. Gomi, T. Isobe, A. Iwata, H. Moriike, S. Hironaga, T. Hosokawa, T. Someya, A. Wachi, K. Homsysavath

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