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Forests, Volume 8, Issue 11

November 2017 - 55 articles

Cover Story: Many systems attempt to use visual fuel hazard assessment scores in fire behaviour models built on fuel load. We found at lower hazard categories visual hazard assessments are acceptable. However, for upper hazard categories visual assessment overestimated fuel load and fire behaviour potential compared to measured fuel loads. View this paper
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Articles (55)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,832 Views
22 Pages

21 November 2017

Fusarium circinatum, causing pine pitch canker, is one of the most damaging pathogens of Pinus species. This study investigated the use of phenotypical and molecular characteristics to delineate groups in a worldwide collection of isolates. The group...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,485 Views
13 Pages

Identification of Floral Relicts Based on Spatial Distance of Isolation

  • Attila Molnár,
  • Zsolt Végvári and
  • Béla Tóthmérész

21 November 2017

The identification of climatic relicts is seldom straightforward. These species are threatened owing to current climatic trends, which underlines the importance of carrying out ecological and biogeographic investigations of them. Here we introduce a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,127 Views
9 Pages

21 November 2017

Soil degradation has been reported worldwide. To better understand this degradation, we selected Pinus armandii and Quercus aliena var. acuteserrata forests, and a mixed forest of Q. aliena var. acuteserrata and P. armandii in the Qinling Mountains i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,455 Views
21 Pages

Allometry of Sapwood Depth in Five Boreal Trees

  • M. Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón and
  • Caterina Valeo

20 November 2017

This paper analyzes sapwood variability and allometry within individuals of Populus tremuloides, Pinus contorta, Pinus banksiana, Picea mariana, and Picea glauca. Outside bark diameter at breast height (DBH) and sapwood depth (sd) in four cardinal di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,365 Views
11 Pages

18 November 2017

The frame structure of the trailer may influence both the traction and the tractor-trailer stability, especially along sloped paths. The aim of this research was to analyze a trailer overturning and the strains on the connected tractors (wheeled, or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,413 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2017

Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) has globally gained support as a strategy to use and manage forest resources while maintaining forest ecosystem services. However, type, relevance, and utilisation of forest ecosystem services vary across eco-regio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,296 Views
18 Pages

Climate Change Mitigation Potential in Boreal Forests: Impacts of Management, Harvest Intensity and Use of Forest Biomass to Substitute Fossil Resources

  • Tarit Kumar Baul,
  • Ashraful Alam,
  • Antti Ikonen,
  • Harri Strandman,
  • Antti Asikainen,
  • Heli Peltola and
  • Antti Kilpeläinen

18 November 2017

The impacts of alternative forest management scenarios and harvest intensities on climate change mitigation potential of forest biomass production, utilization and economic profitability of biomass production were studied in three boreal sub-regions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,692 Views
18 Pages

17 November 2017

Crown profile is mostly related to the competition of individual trees in the stands, light interception, growth, and yield of trees. A total of 76 sample trees with a total number of 889 whorls and 3658 live branches were used to develop the outer c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,209 Views
12 Pages

Biomass Losses Caused by Teratosphaeria Leaf Disease in Eucalyptus globulus Short Rotation Forestry

  • Severiano Pérez,
  • Carlos J. Renedo,
  • Alfredo Ortiz,
  • Félix Ortiz and
  • Agustín Santisteban

17 November 2017

This article presents the results of a study that examines the loss of biomass and energy, per hectare, caused by Teratosphaeria leaf disease (TLD) in Eucalyptus globulus short rotation forestry. The 95 Eucalyptus globulus taxa analyzed are from seed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,547 Views
19 Pages

Responses of Contrasting Tree Functional Types to Air Warming and Drought

  • Elisabet Martínez-Sancho,
  • Lizeth K. Vásconez Navas,
  • Hannes Seidel,
  • Isabel Dorado-Liñán and
  • Annette Menzel

17 November 2017

Climate change-induced rise of air temperatures and the increase of extreme climatic events, such as droughts, will largely affect plant growth and hydraulics, leading to mortality events all over the globe. In this study, we investigated the growth...

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