Northwestern Ontario has a shorter growing season but fertile soil, affordable land, opportunities for agricultural diversification, and a demand for canola production. Canola yield mainly varies with spatial heterogeneity of soil properties, crop pa...
Compressive strength (CS) and splitting tensile strength (STS) are paramount parameters in the design of reinforced concrete structures and are required by pertinent standard provisions. Robust prediction models for these properties can save time and...
Climate change has caused droughts to increase in frequency and severity worldwide, which has attracted scientists to create drought prediction models to mitigate the impacts of droughts. One of the most important challenges in addressing droughts is...
Reinforced concrete (RC) flat slabs are widely employed in modern construction, and accurately predicting their load-carrying capacity is crucial for ensuring safety and reliability. Existing design methods and empirical equations still exhibit discr...
Torsional strength is related with one of the most critical failure types for the design and assessment of reinforced concrete (RC) members due to the complexity of the associated stress state and low ductility. Previous studies have shown that relia...
The objective of this study is the development of crown width–tree height (CW-H) models in cities in northeastern Greece, for better urban vegetation management. In the cities of Kavala, Xanthi, Komotini, Alexadroupolis, and Orestiada, in total...
Airborne laser scanner (ALS) data provide an enhanced capability to remotely map two key variables in forestry: leaf area index (LAI) and tree height (H). Nevertheless, the cost, complexity and accessibility of this technology are not yet suited for...
Combined use of new geospatial techniques and non-parametric multivariate statistical methods enables monitoring and quantification of the biomass of large areas of forest ecosystems with acceptable reliability. The main objective of the present stud...
Wind energy is relevant to self-sufficiency in urban areas, but the accuracy of wind assessment is a barrier to allowing wind energy development. The aim of this work is to test the performance of the Griggs-Putnam Index of Deformity of trees (G-PID)...
Striving for climate neutrality and wider implementation of climate change mitigation measures including tree introduction in agricultural land, request for approaches and general allometric models for estimating carbon (C) stock in tree above-ground...
Post-disturbance salvage logging mitigates economic loss after windthrow, and the value of salvaged timber is strongly linked to its quality and dimensions. We studied the occurrence of wind-induced damage of aspen in the hemiboreal forests of Latvia...
Forest measurements are essential for monitoring stand dynamics and long-term trends. Errors in tree measurement can seriously affect the outcomes of a forest inventory. This study investigates measurement errors from successive measurements on perma...
This study investigates spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) infestation patterns in Whirlpool Forest, Ontario, offering a region-specific perspective while largely corroborating existing findings. We analyzed egg mass distribution across 43 sampling plots...
Soil phosphorus (P) partitioning could contribute to species diversity and structure in plant communities, but field-scale evidence for P partitioning remains scarce. We hypothesized that the presence of P partitioning could be inferred from statisti...
It has been shown that height measurements obtained by airborne laser scanning (ALS) with high point density (>7–8 m−2) can be used to detect small trees in the alpine tree line—an ecotone sensitive to climate change. Because the height measuremen...
A low-cost but accurate remote-sensing-based forest-monitoring tool is necessary for regularly inventorying tree-level parameters and stand-level attributes to achieve sustainable management of timber production forests. Lidar technology is precise f...
Urban forests play a critical role in improving the quality of life in cities, but in arid environments, little is known about the potential benefits and growth conditions of different tree species. Our study aimed to fill this gap by investigating t...
Background: Acute cellular rejection (ACR) after heart transplantation remains incompletely explained despite standardized immunosuppression. Environmental exposures may contribute to residual immune activation; however, prior studies have focused pr...
This study was conducted in a Pinus sylvestris var. Mongolia plantation within the Xiaotaojiagou watershed of the Winter Olympic venues (Chongli competition area) to explore the influence of forest growth factors, soil physical properties, soil nutri...
Aboveground biomass (AGB) of short-stature shrubs and trees contain a substantial part of the total carbon pool within boreal ecosystems. These ecosystems, however, are changing rapidly due to climate-mediated atmospheric changes, with overall observ...
Establishing an optimum range of inter-species spacing that reduces competition among trees and mitigates the effects of drought is a critical yet complex challenge in forest management. Stand density plays a crucial role in forest functioning by reg...
Soil pH is a critical soil property governing nutrient availability and ecosystem functioning. Digital mapping of its spatial distribution is essential for precision agriculture and sustainable land management. This study performs a comparative analy...
To compare how different analytical methods explain crop yields from a long-term field experiment (LTFE), we analyzed the grain yield of winter wheat (WW) under different fertilizer applications in Müncheberg, Germany. An analysis of variance (A...
Date palm trees, Phoenix dactylifera, are the primary crop in Oman. Most date palm cultivation is under the traditional agricultural system. The plants are usually under dense planting, which makes them prone to pest infestation. The main pest attack...
The optimization of outdoor thermal comfort has become the keystone to guarantee the healthy and comfortable use of outdoor spaces. This study aims to optimize the outdoor thermal comfort through vegetation parameterization in a boulevard located in...
The current study investigates an improved version of Least Square Support Vector Machines integrated with a Bat Algorithm (LSSVM-BA) for modeling the dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration in rivers. The LSSVM-BA model results are compared with those o...
The urban heat island (UHI) is a critical issue in most urbanised areas. Spatial variation of urban air temperature and humidity influences human thermal comfort, the settling rate of atmospheric pollutants, and the energy demand for cooling. UHIs ca...
Forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is an important research topic in the field of forestry, with implications for carbon cycles and carbon sinks. Malania oleifera Chun et S. K. Lee (M. oleifera) is a valuable plant species that is listed on the Nationa...
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Rapid urbanisation and rising vehicular emissions aggravate urban air pollution. Outdoor pollutants could diffuse indoors through infiltration or ventilation, leading to residents’ exposure. This study performed CFD simulations with a standard...
Tree spatial distribution patterns such as random, regular, and clustered play a crucial role in numerical simulations of carbon and water cycles and energy exchanges between forest ecosystems and the atmosphere. An efficient approach is needed to ch...
We investigated the factors affecting recurrence-free survival in patients with non-B non-C hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who received curative treatment. Decision-tree analysis was performed in 72 curative cases of non-B non-C HCC to extract the ri...
The Loess Plateau is one of the most fragile ecosystems in the world. In order to increase the biodiversity in the area, develop sustainable agriculture and increase the income of the local people, we simulated the potential geographic distribution o...
Individual tree segmentation (ITS) is essential for forest inventory, health assessment, carbon accounting, and evaluating restoration efforts. Populus euphratica, a widely distributed desert riparian tree species found along the inland rivers of Cen...
The accurate classification of tree species is essential for the sustainable management of forest resources and the effective monitoring of biodiversity. However, a literature review shows that most of the previous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) light...
Urban forestry has the potential to address many urban environmental and sustainability challenges. Yet in Africa, urban forest characterization and its potential to contribute to human wellbeing are often neglected or restrained. This paper describe...
Accurate positioning is one of the main components and challenges for precision forestry. This study was established to test the feasibility of a low-cost GNSS receiver, u-blox ZED-F9P, in movable RTK mode with features that determine its positioning...
Pruning is a regular and essential urban tree maintenance practice aimed at sustaining overall health, ecosystem services, and public safety. However, knowledge of post-pruning recovery dynamics remains limited, which in turn hinders accurate assessm...
Estimating forest inventory variables is important in monitoring forest resources and mitigating climate change. In this respect, forest managers require flexible, non-destructive methods for estimating volume and biomass. High-resolution and low-cos...
The study analyses at the information level the impact of the main economic indicators on migration and access to services in the European Union, using methods specific to intelligent information systems. The research is based on the correlations bet...
Urban areas face increasing challenges related to heat stress and urban heat islands, necessitating effective strategies for microclimate regulation and thermal comfort enhancement. This study investigates the cooling effect of three tree species, Fi...
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) nutrients have been regularly applied to improve productivity in intensively managed and short-rotation forest plantations in subtropical China. Under the constraint of the national policy of “carbon neutrality&r...
Drought prediction is the most effective way to mitigate drought impacts. The current study examined the ability of three renowned machine learning models, namely additive regression (AR), random subspace (RSS), and M5P tree, and their hybridized ver...
With the rapid urbanization and industrialization in Taiwan, pollutants generated from industrial processes, coal combustion, and vehicle emissions have led to severe air pollution issues. This study focuses on predicting the fine particulate matter...
The main problems of forest parameter extraction and forest stand volume estimation using unmanned aerial vehicle light detection and ranging (UAV-LiDAR) technology are the lack of precision in individual tree segmentation and the inability to direct...
Zrebar Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Iran and it plays an important role in the ecosystem of the environment, while its desiccation has a negative impact on the surrounded ecosystem. Despite this, this lake provides an interesting re...
Changes in age structure, spatial distribution and intraspecific interactions across environmental gradients often reflect adaptations of plant populations to their environment. Our study explored the growth status of the Picea schrenkiana population...
Active learning is the category of partially supervised algorithms that is differentiated by its strategy to combine both the predictive ability of a base learner and the human knowledge so as to exploit adequately the existence of unlabeled data. It...
Citrus is one of the most valuable crops in Syria, with the largest production areas in the Tartus and Latakia provinces. Water-saving policies have been adopted to modernize the irrigation systems and increase water productivity. Following dedicated...
In the field of pavement engineering, the determination of the mechanical characteristics is one of the essential processes for reliable material design and highway sustainability. Early determination of the mechanical characteristics of pavement is...
In this study the quantification of biomass within all relevant compartments of a three-year-old poplar clone (P. maximowicii × P. trichocarpa) planted on abandoned agricultural land at a density of 5000 trees ha−1 is presented. A total of 30 trees w...
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