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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,546 Views
16 Pages

13 March 2023

Iriai forests are an example of communal forest management in Japan. Local institutions have never been static in governing iriai forests and the external environments of iriai forests have changed significantly over time. This study examines the man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,840 Views
17 Pages

22 January 2021

Communal forests are a unique land tenure system and comprise a singular legal category in Galicia. Their persistence over time demonstrates that this community-owned resource has overcome the “tragedy of the commons”, showing their capab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,349 Views
27 Pages

Group Inequality and Environmental Sustainability: Insights from Bangladesh and Kenyan Forest Commons

  • Nilufar Matin,
  • Mohammad Shahidul Islam,
  • Musingo T. E. Mbuvi,
  • Bernard Owuor Odit,
  • Paul Othim Ongugo and
  • Mohammad Abu Syed

20 March 2014

The paper contributes to understanding the interactions of environmental and social dimensions of sustainability in situations of acute group inequalities. Using case studies of Mount Elgon in Kenya and Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh it shows t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,912 Views
19 Pages

Forest Restoration through Village Common Forests in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: The Role of NGO Interventions

  • Md. Shafiqul Bari,
  • Md. Manik Ali,
  • Mohammad Jahangir Alam,
  • Mahmuod Abubakar Bashir,
  • Oliver Tirtho Sarkar and
  • Sharif A. Mukul

29 September 2024

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are widely recognized for their support of biodiversity conservation and forest restoration in tropical developing countries. In the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) of Bangladesh, ethnic forest-dependent communitie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,871 Views
20 Pages

18 July 2021

The compossessorates in Transylvania (Romania) are traditional varieties of commons. During the inter-war period two types of compossessorates were most common in the Olt Land, between the Olt River and the Southern Carpathians: those of the former b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,758 Views
17 Pages

The common leopard (Panthera pardus) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ and K), Pakistan, is increasingly threatened by habitat fragmentation and climate change. This study employs a dual-model approach, integrating Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) and Random For...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,395 Views
34 Pages

16 March 2025

Reed beds, often referred to as dense, nearly monotonous extensive stands of common reed (Phragmites australis), are the most productive vegetation form of inland waters in Central Asia and exhibit great potential for biomass production in such a dry...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,097 Views
17 Pages

18 April 2020

The topic of large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) has attracted wide interest in the literature and the media. However, there is little work on the gendered institutional changes and gendered impacts on common pool resources (CPR) due to LSLA. The aim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,098 Views
18 Pages

5 July 2012

Governments around the world are increasingly devolving authority for forest management to the local level in an attempt to strengthen the management of national forests. Community forestry programs are recognized as providing a range of economic and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,475 Views
16 Pages

17 November 2021

Community Forest Governance is a process of building agreements and decision-making about rules and norms for the use and access to forest resources of common use. The main objective of this study was to know the level of governance about the managem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,116 Views
17 Pages

Forest community connections are crucial to ensure forest stewardship and sustainability. We explored the potential of mushrooming to enable such connections in contexts where these connections have been historically broken, alienating local people f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,436 Views
23 Pages

18 March 2022

The success of forest management towards achieving desired outcomes depends on various factors and can be improved through forest planning based on optimization approaches. Regardless of the owner type (state, private or common land) and/or governanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,382 Views
14 Pages

Fostering Collaborations towards Integrative Research Development

  • Niels Brouwers,
  • Susan Moore,
  • Thomas Lyons,
  • Giles Hardy,
  • Jérôme Chopard,
  • George Matusick,
  • Katinka Ruthrof and
  • Leonie Valentine

10 May 2013

The complex problems associated with global change processes calls for close collaboration between science disciplines to create new, integrated knowledge. In the wake of global change processes, forests and other natural environments have been rapid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,623 Views
13 Pages

Different Strategies for Resilience to Wildfires: The Experience of Collective Land Ownership in Galicia (Northwest Spain)

  • Manuel Marey-Perez,
  • Xurxo Loureiro,
  • Eduardo José Corbelle-Rico and
  • Cristina Fernández-Filgueira

23 April 2021

Resilience is not a particularly novel concept, but it has recently become frequently used as a measurement indicator of adaptation capacity under different approaches depending on the field of study. Ideally, for example, forest ecosystems would be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,804 Views
18 Pages

Properties of Forest Tree Branches as an Energy Feedstock in North-Eastern Poland

  • Mariusz Jerzy Stolarski,
  • Natalia Wojciechowska,
  • Mateusz Seliwiak and
  • Tomasz Krzysztof Dobrzański

22 April 2024

Tree branches from forest tree harvesting for the timber industry are an important energy feedstock. Solid biofuel in the form of wood chips, produced from branches, is an excellent renewable energy source for generating heat and electricity. However...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,181 Views
17 Pages

The Golgi Apparatus (GA) is a major collection and dispatch station for numerous proteins destined for secretion, plasma membranes and lysosomes. The dysfunction of GA proteins can result in neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, accurate identificat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,238 Views
9 Pages

Bark Gnawing by Rodents in Orchards during the Growing Season—Can We Detect Relation with Forest Damages?

  • Josef Suchomel,
  • Jan Šipoš,
  • Jana Ouředníčková,
  • Michal Skalský and
  • Marta Heroldová

19 January 2022

Rodent bark gnawing is common during winter in times of low or unavailable food supply. During the growing season, it is a rare phenomenon, but can occur due to low food supply and/or poor food quality resulting from climatic influence. We evaluated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
9,554 Views
24 Pages

Parkinson’s Disease Detection from Resting-State EEG Signals Using Common Spatial Pattern, Entropy, and Machine Learning Techniques

  • Majid Aljalal,
  • Saeed A. Aldosari,
  • Khalil AlSharabi,
  • Akram M. Abdurraqeeb and
  • Fahd A. Alturki

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a very common brain abnormality that affects people all over the world. Early detection of such abnormality is critical in clinical diagnosis in order to prevent disease progression. Electroencephalography (EEG) is o...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,608 Views
18 Pages

Monitoring System for the Management of the Common Agricultural Policy Using Machine Learning and Remote Sensing

  • Francisco Javier López-Andreu,
  • Juan Antonio López-Morales,
  • Manuel Erena,
  • Antonio F. Skarmeta and
  • Juan A. Martínez

The European Commission promotes new technologies and data generated by the Copernicus Programme. These technologies are intended to improve the management of the Common Agricultural Policy aid, implement new monitoring controls to replace on-the-spo...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1,784 Views
2 Pages

Role Board Games as a Tool for Reconfiguration of Innovation Factors in Forest Ecosystem Services Governance

  • Martin Špaček,
  • Tatiana Kluvánková,
  • Veronika Gežík,
  • Viera Baštáková,
  • Iveta Štecová and
  • Jiří Louda

Forest ecosystem services (FES) are considered as public or common goods facing diverging individual and societal interests affecting the quality of ecosystems and well-being of the communities. This may result in overuse, degradation or unsustainabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
11,637 Views
21 Pages

Scalable Parcel-Based Crop Identification Scheme Using Sentinel-2 Data Time-Series for the Monitoring of the Common Agricultural Policy

  • Vasileios Sitokonstantinou,
  • Ioannis Papoutsis,
  • Charalampos Kontoes,
  • Alberto Lafarga Arnal,
  • Ana Pilar Armesto Andrés and
  • José Angel Garraza Zurbano

8 June 2018

This work investigates a Sentinel-2 based crop identification methodology for the monitoring of the Common Agricultural Policy’s (CAP) Cross Compliance (CC) and Greening obligations. In this regard, we implemented and evaluated a parcel-based s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,749 Views
19 Pages

A Possible Role of Copernicus Sentinel-2 Data to Support Common Agricultural Policy Controls in Agriculture

  • Filippo Sarvia,
  • Elena Xausa,
  • Samuele De Petris,
  • Gianluca Cantamessa and
  • Enrico Borgogno-Mondino

8 January 2021

Farmers that intend to access Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) contributions must submit an application to the territorially competent Paying Agencies (PA). Agencies are called to verify consistency of CAP contributions requirements through ground ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,241 Views
21 Pages

16 January 2025

Backgrounds: Virtual reality (VR) has become a transformative technology with applications in gaming, education, healthcare, and psychotherapy. The subjective experiences in VR vary based on the virtual environment’s characteristics, and electr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,530 Views
53 Pages

Modelling the Common Agricultural Policy Impact over the EU Agricultural and Rural Environment through a Machine Learning Predictive Framework

  • Dragos Sebastian Cristea,
  • Sarina Rosenberg,
  • Adriana Pustianu Mocanu,
  • Ira Adeline Simionov,
  • Alina Antache Mogodan,
  • Stefan Mihai Petrea and
  • Liliana Mihaela Moga

20 October 2021

This research provides an analytical and predictive framework, based on state-of-the-art machine-learning (ML) algorithms (random forest (RF) and generalized additive models (GAM)), that can be used to assess and improve the Common Agricultural Polic...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,519 Views
8 Pages

29 March 2023

In order to investigate how familial biodiversity structures forests in the critically important Amazon, I combined past plot samplings to investigate the contributions of tree families in those samplings to the structure of common Amazon forest type...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,798 Views
15 Pages

20 December 2024

When species of different abundance coexist, their ecological strategies remain uncertain. Assessing the functional diversity and niche characteristics of species with different levels of abundance contributes to understanding vegetation properties a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,321 Views
29 Pages

Response of Common and Rare Beetle Species to Tree Species and Vertical Stratification in a Floodplain Forest

  • Nora Haack,
  • Paulo A. V. Borges,
  • Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth,
  • Martin Schlegel,
  • Christian Wirth,
  • Detlef Bernhard,
  • Ingo Brunk,
  • Klaus Henle and
  • Henrique M. Pereira

3 February 2022

Vertical stratification and host tree species are factors with a high influence on the structure of communities of xylobiont beetles. However, little is known about how this influence varies between common and rare species. Based on estimated species...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,761 Views
11 Pages

8 March 2017

The predominant input of available nitrogen (N) in boreal forest ecosystems originates from moss-associated cyanobacteria, which fix unavailable atmospheric N2, contribute to the soil N pool, and thereby support forest productivity. Alongside climate...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,693 Views
9 Pages

Root-Plate Characteristics of Common Aspen in Hemiboreal Forests of Latvia: A Case Study

  • Valters Samariks,
  • Dace Brizga,
  • Jeļena Rūba,
  • Andris Seipulis and
  • Āris Jansons

29 December 2020

Climate change will cause winds to strengthen and storms to become more frequent in Northern Europe. Windstorms reduce the financial value of forests by bending, breaking, or uprooting trees, and wind-thrown trees cause additional economic losses. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,843 Views
16 Pages

Phytochemical Screening of Volatile Organic Compounds in Three Common Coniferous Tree Species in Terms of Forest Ecosystem Services

  • Martina Zorić,
  • Saša Kostić,
  • Nebojša Kladar,
  • Biljana Božin,
  • Verica Vasić,
  • Marko Kebert and
  • Saša Orlović

15 July 2021

Multiple positive effects that forests have on human health and overall well-being have been reported widely in the literature. Still, multiple elements of this relationship remain unidentified and unexplained. In this study, the composition of leaf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,544 Views
17 Pages

Features of the Territorial Distribution, Composition and Structure of Phytocenoses with the Participation of Fraxinus excelsior, Their Resource Qualities, Ecological and Economic Importance (Southeastern Part of the East European Plain)

  • 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 and
  • Karina Mikirtichevna Gordyushkina
  • + 7 authors

28 December 2022

At present, the distribution area of Fraxinus excelsior L. in the forest ecosystems of the Volga Region is rather low and ranges from 0.01% to 2.5%. In the Middle Volga Region, using the example of the Penza region, five types of deciduous forests we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,420 Views
12 Pages

Abnormal Heart Sound Detection Using Common Spatial Patterns and Random Forests

  • Turky N. Alotaiby,
  • Nuwayyir A. Alsahle and
  • Gaseb N. Alotibi

Early and accurate diagnosis of heart conditions is pivotal for effective treatment. Phonocardiography (PCG) has become a standard diagnostic tool for evaluating and detecting cardiac abnormalities. While traditional cardiac auscultation remains wide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,273 Views
17 Pages

6 April 2019

Bamboo forests play an important role in achieving the objectives of the United Nations program on Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. We developed and validated a modeling system that simultaneously estimate aboveground biom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
977 Views
20 Pages

15 May 2025

Aboveground biomass models are useful for assessing vegetation conditions and providing valuable information on the availability of ecosystem goods and services, including carbon stock and forest/rangeland products. This study aimed to develop aboveg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,923 Views
18 Pages

24 April 2020

In today’s chicken egg industry, maintaining the strength of eggshells in longer laying cycles is pivotal for improving the persistency of egg laying. Eggshell development and mineralization underlie a complex regulatory interplay of various pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,900 Views
23 Pages

The Compossessorates in the Olt Land (Romania) as Sustainable Commons

  • Daniela Sorea,
  • Gheorghe Roșculeț and
  • Gabriela Georgeta Rățulea

15 February 2022

The compossessorates are traditional Transylvanian commons. They were disbanded during the Communist regime and re-established after 1989 according to the successive laws concerning land restitution. The current article highlights the importance of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,959 Views
20 Pages

Impact of Government Stability and Investment Profile on Forest Area: The Role of Natural Protected Areas

  • Sha Qiao,
  • Caihong Zhang,
  • Lizeth Cuesta,
  • Rafael Alvarado,
  • Stefania Pinzón and
  • Diana Bravo-Benavides

7 April 2022

Forest area plays a fundamental role in air and water quality and directly impacts agricultural productivity. This research aims to examine the impact of government stability and investment profiles on forest cover in countries within the ASEAN regio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,026 Views
16 Pages

A Participatory Approach to Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Andean Amazonia: Three Country Case Studies for Policy Planning

  • Rosario Gómez,
  • Julio Aguirre,
  • Luis Oliveros,
  • Renzo Paladines,
  • Néstor Ortiz,
  • Diana Encalada and
  • Dolors Armenteras

8 March 2023

Ecosystem services have been steadily incorporated into policy and planning, particularly for conservation. While biophysical and economic values are often part of ecosystems assessments, integrating participatory approaches with these valuation tool...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,576 Views
23 Pages

25 February 2017

Forests and carbon sequestration have become fundamental themes in climate change mitigation. The idea of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) has generated significant interest in forest governance from United Nations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,503 Views
28 Pages

Sentinel-2 Enables Nationwide Monitoring of Single Area Payment Scheme and Greening Agricultural Subsidies in Hungary

  • László Henits,
  • Ákos Szerletics,
  • Dávid Szokol,
  • Gergely Szlovák,
  • Emese Gojdár and
  • András Zlinszky

12 August 2022

The verification and monitoring of agricultural subsidy claims requires combined evaluation of several criteria at the scale of over a million cultivation units. Sentinel-2 satellite imagery is a promising data source and paying agencies are encourag...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,881 Views
16 Pages

The current study characterizes the regeneration in the floor layer and topsoil at a depth of 0–10 cm in the skid trails, dealing with the reforestation of four tree species (Fraxinus excelsior, FE; Prunus avium, PA; Acer cappadocicum, AC; and Quercu...

  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
7 Citations
24,728 Views
28 Pages

12 May 2021

Human straight-legged bipedalism represents one of the earliest events in the evolutionary split between humans (Homo spp.) and chimpanzees (Pan spp.), although its selective basis is a mystery. A carrying-related hypothesis has recently been propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,047 Views
12 Pages

9 September 2021

Bird nest selection in forests can be influenced by the composition of key structural elements and resources. This has important consequences in terms of species population dynamics since it can determine reproduction success. Here, we assessed Commo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,985 Views
14 Pages

Tree Species Affect Beetle Diversity on the Common Deciduous Dead Wood in Lithuanian Unmanaged Forests

  • Aistė Lekoveckaitė,
  • Maria Fernanda Torres Jimenez,
  • Giedrius Trakimas,
  • Romas Ferenca and
  • Virginija Podėnienė

9 September 2023

Beetles living in dead wood are species-specific, suggesting that beetle diversity may vary between different deciduous tree species. However, the patterns of diversity variation among deciduous trees are still poorly understood. In this study, we in...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,274 Views
11 Pages

6 January 2025

Heavy metal pollution has complex impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, affecting biodiversity, trophic relationships, species health, and the quality of natural resources. This study aims to validate a non-invasive method for detecting heavy metals (Cd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,447 Views
31 Pages

Mexico’s Forest Diversity: Common Tree Species and Proposed Forest-Vegetation Provinces

  • Martin Ricker,
  • Jorge Calónico,
  • Miguel Á. Castillo-Santiago,
  • Adolfo Galicia,
  • Christoph Kleinn,
  • Esteban M. Martínez-Salas,
  • Edith Mondragón,
  • Mauricio A. Mora,
  • Leandro J. Ramos and
  • Sergio A. Villela
  • + 1 author

29 September 2022

We report a relatively rare study of a national forest inventory in a megadiverse country with the systematic collection of herbarium specimens. The taxonomic identification of 22,659 herbarium collections from 6942 sites of Mexico’s national f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,461 Views
15 Pages

25 October 2019

South Carolina (SC) has a variety of different forest types, and they all have potential to sequester a certain amount of carbon. Private forest landowners control a significant portion of the overall forestland in SC, and their management efforts ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,018 Views
26 Pages

30 June 2021

Rethinking ‘sharing’ and the relationship between ‘sharing’ and ‘jurisdiction’, this meander proceeds in three parts. It begins with a journey to and through the forests of the nineteenth-century Rhineland, rereading Marx’s journalistic reports on de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,576 Views
32 Pages

27 January 2011

This article examines common barriers to achieving adequate levels of forest resource governance in countries of Latin America. It looks at the deficiencies of the policy and regulatory frameworks affecting forests, the common failure to impose the r...

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