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Ajit Krishnaswamy,Ellen Simmons,Larry Joseph
It is predicted that climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of natural disturbances and weather related natural disasters. Rural forest-based communities are especially vulnerable to changes in natural disturbance regimes influenced by ...
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Matthew B. Russell, Stephanie R. Patton, David C. Wilson, Grant M. Domke and Katie L. Frerker
The amount of biomass stored in forest ecosystems is a result of past natural disturbances, forest management activities, and current structure and composition such as age class distributions. Although natural disturbances are projected to increase in th...
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Mike Greig,Gary Bull
Forest carbon management is rapidly evolving in British Columbia. The province is perhaps the most active jurisdiction on this front in Canada as it seeks to meet the requirements of its new suite of greenhouse gas legislation, regulations, and policies ...
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Li-Chi Chiang, Yi-Ting Chuang and Chin-Chuan Han
The Chenyulan watershed, located in the central mountain area of Taiwan, has been suffering from earthquakes, typhoons, and heavy rainfalls in recent decades. These sequential natural disturbances have a cumulative impact on the watershed, leading to mor...
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Liqun Shao, Haibin Chen, Chen Zhang and Xuexi Huo
Several grassland conservation programs aiming to relieve grazing pressure have been implemented in Inner Mongolia since 2000 to reverse grassland degradation and protect local and regional environments. Previous studies on the effects of these programs ...
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Todd Redding,Suzan Lapp,Jason Leach
This extension note summarizes the key findings of the chapter entitled "A synthesis of the effects of natural disturbance and post-disturbance management on streamflow, stream temperature, suspended sediment, and aquatic invertebrate populations" of FOR...
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D.J. McManus,H.H. Carr,B.M. Adams
Pág. pp. 6 - 11
Global information and communication technologies permeate organizational structures, while questions of security pervade strategic plans of corporations worldwide. From the spectacular to the sublime, the effects of geomagnetic disturbances (i.e., elect...
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Kathie Swift,Shikun Ran
Natural and human-induced disturbance such as wildfire, insect and disease outbreak, windthrow, and forest harvesting are important drivers for forest renewal, post-disturbance stand structure, and ecosystem function. Each disturbance or combination of d...
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A.C. Gonçalves,A. Carvalho Oliveira
Pág. 444 - 452
Stand regeneration is one of the most important aspects of silviculture as it ensures stand and production perpetuity. Regeneration occurs after one or several disturbances releasing growing space, usually after the elimination of some adult trees. In No...
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Jill Dunbar,Larry McCulloch,Richard Kabzems
Bluejoint (Calamagrostis canadensis [Michx]. Beauv.), which is also known as Canada bluejoint grass, reedgrass, marsh reed grass, and Scribner?s reed grass, is a commonly occurring indigenous grass found throughout British Columbia. Bluejoint is a natura...
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Pavel N. Kazanskii
The complex unsteady flow in cavities leads to the formation of large-scale disturbances in the shear layer. Natural closed-loop mechanisms provoke a dramatic increase in pressure pulsations and aerodynamic noise. This paper presents the experimental stu...
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Nicolás Rodríguez-Jeangros, Amanda S. Hering and John E. McCray
In recent decades, the Rocky Mountains (RM) have undergone significant changes associated with anthropogenic activities and natural disturbances. These changes have the potential to alter primary productivity and biomass carbon storage. In particular, di...
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Heiko Woith, Josef Vlcek, Tomá? Vylita, Torsten Dahm, Tomá? Fischer, Kyriaki Daskalopoulou, Martin Zimmer, Samuel Niedermann, Jessica A. Stammeier, Veronika Turjaková and Martin Lanzendörfer
Mofettes are gas emission sites where high concentrations of CO2 ascend through conduits from as deep as the mantle to the Earth?s surface and as such provide direct windows to processes at depth. The Hartou?ov mofette, located at the western margin of t...
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Carlos Gracián-Alcaide, Jose A. Maldonado-Lobón, Elisabeth Ortiz-Tikkakoski, Alejandro Gómez-Vilchez, Juristo Fonollá, Jose L. López-Larramendi, Mónica Olivares and Ruth Blanco-Rojo
Elderly people are particularly vulnerable to respiratory tract infections, so natural strategies to ameliorate the duration and severity of these infections are of great interest in this population. The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficac...
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Hua Zhou, Yang Luo, Guang Zhou, Jian Yu, Sher Shah, Shengwang Meng and Qijing Liu
Subtropical forest productivity is significantly affected by both natural disturbances (local and regional climate changes) and anthropogenic activities (harvesting and planting). Monthly measures of forest aboveground productivity from natural forests (...
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Astika Bhugeloo, Kabir Peerbhay, Syd Ramdhani and Sershen
Natural and human-induced disturbances influence the biodiversity and functionality of forest ecosystems. Regular, repeated assessments of canopy intactness are essential to map site-specific forest disturbance and recovery patterns, an essential require...
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Darius Kavaliauskas, Barbara Fussi, Marjana Westergren, Filippos Aravanopoulos, Domen Finzgar, Roland Baier, Paraskevi Alizoti, Gregor Bozic, Evangelia Avramidou, Monika Konnert and Hojka Kraigher
The conservation and sustainable use of forests and forest genetic resources (FGR) is a challenging task for scientists and foresters. Forest management practices can affect diversity on various levels: genetic, species, and ecosystem. Understanding past...
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Kenneth A. Anyomi, Stephen J. Mitchell, Ajith H. Perera and Jean-Claude Ruel
In Boreal North America, management approaches inspired by the variability in natural disturbances are expected to produce more resilient forests. Wind storms are recurrent within Boreal Ontario. The objective of this study was to simulate wind damage fo...
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Don Gayton,Pedro Lara Almuedo
Biodiversity is a key component of forested ecosystems. It should be preserved not only for its own sake, but because biodiverse ecosystems are resilient and better able to respond to changing conditions. This extension note is a condensed version of a f...
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David Huggard
Large wildfires near communities in southern BC, and the extensive outbreak of mountain pine beetle (MPB) throughout pine forests of the BC Interior, have created many new issues for forest managers. A particular concern is managing the cumulative effect...
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