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Forests, Volume 7, Issue 6

June 2016 - 18 articles

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Articles (18)

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,645 Views
21 Pages

31 May 2016

Is (sub)urban forest diversity shaped by previous land use? This study was designed to quantitatively assess the impacts of subdivision development on urban tree-species composition in two Canadian cities: Halifax, Nova Scotia, and London, Ontario. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,199 Views
12 Pages

Innovation Strategy in Slovak Forest Contractor Firms—A SWOT Analysis

  • Martina Štěrbová,
  • Erika Loučanová,
  • Hubert Paluš,
  • Ľubomír Ivan and
  • Jaroslav Šálka

31 May 2016

The aim of the study is to determine the innovation strategy of contractor firms in the Slovak forestry service sector in the area of further innovation activities development. The strategy identification was based on the analysis of the strengths, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
13,551 Views
18 Pages

30 May 2016

This study compares carbon sequestration rates along two independent tidal mangrove creeks near Naples Bay in Southwest Florida, USA. One tidal creek is hydrologically disturbed due to upstream land use changes; the other is an undisturbed reference...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,178 Views
15 Pages

Socioeconomic Predictors of Family Forest Owner Awareness and Use of U.S. Federal Income Tax Provisions

  • John E. Hatcher,
  • Thomas J. Straka,
  • Tamara L. Cushing,
  • John L. Greene and
  • William C. Bridges

28 May 2016

Family forest owners (FFOs) control a majority of private forestland in the United States and have widely diverse ownership and management objectives. Many FFOs manage their holdings for timber production and, thus, are concerned with issues such as...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,782 Views
11 Pages

Surface Soil Carbon Storage in Urban Green Spaces in Three Major South Korean Cities

  • Tae Kyung Yoon,
  • Kyung Won Seo,
  • Gwan Soo Park,
  • Yeong Mo Son and
  • Yowhan Son

28 May 2016

Quantifying and managing carbon (C) storage in urban green space (UGS) soils is associated with the ecosystem services necessary for human well-being and the national C inventory report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Here, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,033 Views
12 Pages

Soil Enzyme Activities in Pinus tabuliformis (Carriére) Plantations in Northern China

  • Weiwei Wang,
  • Deborah Page-Dumroese,
  • Ruiheng Lv,
  • Chen Xiao,
  • Guolei Li and
  • Yong Liu

26 May 2016

Changes in forest stand structure may alter the activity of invertase, urease, catalase and phenol oxidase after thinning Pinus tabuliformis (Carriére) plantations in Yanqing County of Beijing, China. We examined changes in these soil enzymes as infl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,954 Views
19 Pages

Tree Species and Their Space Requirements in Six Urban Environments Worldwide

  • Jens Dahlhausen,
  • Peter Biber,
  • Thomas Rötzer,
  • Enno Uhl and
  • Hans Pretzsch

25 May 2016

Urban trees have gained in importance during recent decades, but little is known about the temporal dynamic of tree growth in urban areas. The present study investigated the allometric relationships of stem diameter, tree height, and crown radius for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,714 Views
13 Pages

Seedling Growth and Physiological Responses of Sixteen Eucalypt Taxa under Controlled Water Regime

  • Paulo H. M. Silva,
  • Otavio C. Campoe,
  • Rinaldo C. De Paula and
  • David J. Lee

24 May 2016

We assessed growth and physiological responses of Eucalyptus and Corymbia species to water limitation aiming to widen possibilities for plantations in dry climatic conditions. We selected 16 taxa: 4 Corymbia and 12 Eucalyptus species from the Subgene...

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