Teak (Tectona grandis Linn. f) is a globally valuable hardwood tree species whose growth performance and tree quality characteristics are controlled by various factors. Teak tree quality characteristics such as stem straightness, buttressing, and pro...
Vibration technology is a commonly used method for detaching citrus fruits, and studying the vibrational properties of citrus trees can helpfully improve the effectiveness of vibrating harvesters. The existing mechanical properties of wood have shown...
Magnesium plays an important role in regulating the growth and quality of tea trees. However, the effect of magnesium regulation on changes in the aroma quality of tea tree leaves remains unknown. In this study, the volatile compounds of tea leaves u...
In this paper, a tree-like branching microchannel with bifurcating interconnections is designed for gas turbine blade cooling. A theoretical analysis, experimental study, and numerical simulation of the heat transfer and hydrodynamic characteristics...
Trees and their morphology can mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) effect, but the impacts of tree species and their two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) morphological characteristics on the thermal environment of residential spaces at th...
The paper presents an original method for the evaluation of bark structure characteristics of tree trunks on the basis of terrestrial laser scanning data. Measurements testing the method proposed were performed in laboratory conditions for trunks of...
Strawberry tree honey (Arbutus unedo L.) is a rare monofloral honey type with unique characteristics, mainly produced in the Mediterranean region. Despite its distinct qualities, limited research on its physicochemical and biological properties, coup...
Improving the speed and accuracy of chlorophyll (Ch1) content prediction in different light areas of apple trees is a central priority for understanding the growth response to light intensity and in turn increasing the primary production of apples. I...
Aerospace mutagenesis can alter the physiological metabolism and growth of tea trees and affect tea leaf quality. In this study, the effect of aerospace mutagenesis on the metabolite content and taste characteristics of Dahongpao fresh leaves and raw...
The historic city of Macau is China’s 31st world heritage site, and its residents have actively contributed to preserving its heritage and will continue to reside there for the foreseeable future. Residents’ satisfaction with the current...
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In this study, we sought to identify relevant factors in healthy behavior practices, including not only individual-level variables but also regional and physical environments. Data from the Korea Community Health Survey (KCHS) of Gyeongsangnam-do in...
The expanding distribution and tree damage of the invasive, primary wood-borer Aromia bungii (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), which kills trees of the Rosaceae family, is a problem in intruded areas. However, the tree characteristics associated with infes...
Urban trees play an important role in the built environment, reducing the rainfall reaching the ground by rainfall interception. The amount of intercepted rainfall depends on the meteorological and vegetation characteristics. By applying the multiple...
When the overhead line passes through the forest area, the conductor may contact the line to induce the tree-contact single-phase-to-ground fault (TSF), and the persistence of TSF may induce wildfires, bringing serious consequences. However, the amou...
There are obvious differences in quality between different varieties of the same plant, and it is not clear whether they can be effectively distinguished from each other from a bacterial point of view. In this study, 44 tea tree varieties (Camellia s...
In the context of the intensification of global urbanization, how urbanization (urban heat island effect and air pollution) affects urban tree growth is not fully understood. In this paper, the radial growth and xylem anatomical characteristics of th...
Fire injury stresses Douglas-fir trees (Pseudotsuga menziesii) that survive a wildfire event, allowing subsequent Douglas-fir beetle (Dendroctonus pseudotsugae) infection to kill trees that may have otherwise survived. This study aimed to determine h...
Ochroma lagopus, a fast-growing tropical tree species, faces fertilization challenges due to slope heterogeneity in plantations. This study examined 3-year-old Ochroma lagopus at upper and lower slope positions under five treatments: CK (no fertilize...
Silicone rubber (SIR) is a crucial insulating material in cable accessories, but it is also susceptible to faults. In practical applications, mechanical pressure from bending or shrinking can impact the degradation of SIR, necessitating the study of...
Uropodina mites are organisms regularly found in the breeding sites of vertebrates. However, studies devoted to the nest dwellers of hole-nesting birds have been performed nearly exclusively in artificial places, i.e., nest boxes. Here, we describe a...
This study investigated the effects of forest type, leaf area index (LAI), canopy cover (CC), tree density (TD), and the coefficient of variation of tree height (CVTH) on the accuracy of different individual tree segmentation methods (i.e., canopy he...
Invasive plants represent a significant global threat to natural ecosystems and biodiversity. The aim of this study was to classify alien woody plants according to their invasion status based on their phenological characteristics using machine learni...
This research aimed to investigate the above-ground biomass and carbon storage in the above-ground biomass of longan trees located in Lumphun and Surin Provinces. The species, tree height, and diameter at ground level were measured at the study site....
In mobile terrestrial hyperspectral imaging, individual trees often present large variations in spectral reflectance that may impact the relevant applications, but the related studies have been seldom reported. To fill this gap, this study was dedica...
Fine roots (φ ≤ 2 mm) play an important role in the process of material and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems, but the effect of tree species diversity on the functional characteristics of fine roots is unclear. In this study, 1−7 su...
Monitoring individual tree crown characteristics is an important component of smart agriculture and is crucial for orchard management. We focused on understanding how UAV imagery taken across one growing season can help understand and predict the gro...
Forest fires and burn severity mosaics have profound impacts on the post-fire dynamics and complexity of forest ecosystems. Numerous studies have investigated the relationship between topographic variables and susceptible tree covers with regard to b...
In order to restrain electric-stress impacts of water micro-droplets in insulation defects under alternating current (AC) electric fields in crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) material, the present study represents chemical graft modifications of introd...
Efficient tree species identification is of great importance in forest inventory and management. As the textural properties of tree barks vary less notably as a result of seasonal change than other tree organs, they are more suitable for the identifi...
Research Highlights: Stand density was connected with wood quality and lumber production to develop a predictive model to better estimate tree value. Background and Objectives: The available standing wood volume in British Columbia (BC), Canada has c...
We investigated the relationship of stem diameter to tree, site and stand characteristics for six major tree species (trembling aspen, white birch, balsam fir, lodgepole pine, black spruce, and white spruce) in Alberta (Canada) with data from Alberta...
Wind tunnel tests of scaled model trees provide an effective approach for understanding fluctuating wind loading and wind-induced response of trees. For decurrent trees, vague multimodal dynamic characteristics and ineffective estimation of leaf mass...
The application of wide band-gap power electronic devices brings more challenges to insulating packaging technology. Knowing the influence of applied voltage parameters on insulation performance is helpful to evaluate the insulation condition of elec...
Trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA) as a photoactive crosslinker is grafted onto hydrophobic nanosilica surface through click chemical reactions of mercapto double bonds to prepare the functionalized nanoparticles (TMPTA-s-SiO2), which are used to...
Agroforestry is indicated as a farming practice suited to enhance ecosystem services generated by cropping systems. However, farmers are often reluctant to implement agroforestry systems due to the potential yield loss of crops. In a field trial, soy...
Epoxy resin insulation materials are mainly derived from petrochemical materials which have the disadvantages of resource consumption and environmental pollution. In order to cure bisphenol A epoxy resin, a maleopimaric anhydride (MPA) curing agent w...
Assessing biodiversity and the spatial structures of forest ecosystems are important for forestry and nature conservation. However, tropical forests of Bangladesh are only sparsely investigated. Here we determined biodiversity (alpha, beta and gamma)...
Root anchoring provides nonnegligible assistance to prevent soil erosion and stabilize slopes. The anchoring ability of plants suffers a tremendous impact from the soil conditions and the root characteristics. To reveal the root reinforcement effect,...
The maximum latewood density (MXD) of tree rings can reflect the temperature of the growing season, but the timing of the response differs among regions. We selected 152 maximum latewood density chronologies from the Northern Hemisphere that showed a...
This paper aims at investigating the electrical tree characteristics of isotactic polypropylene (iPP)/syndiotactic polypropylene (sPP) blends for thermoplastic cable insulation. PP blended samples with sPP contents of 0, 5, 15, 30, and 45 wt% are pre...
Silicone gel and silicone rubber are widely used in packaging insulation because of their high comprehensive performance. Nevertheless, the special deterioration mechanism under pulsed electric fields is not yet clear and needs to be studied in depth...
Orchard wind-assisted spraying technology relies on auxiliary airflow to disturb the canopy and improve droplet deposition uniformity. However, there are few effective means of quantitatively assessing the dynamic response of fruit tree leaves to air...
Many studies have investigated tree-contact arcing ground faults. However, the effects of branch moisture content and wind speed are still not fully understood. Therefore, this paper addresses the wildfire risk caused by tree-contact arc grounding fa...
The quality of the Dahongpao mother tree (Camellia sinensis) remains a mystery to this day. In this study, for the first time, the differences between the Dahongpao mother tree (MD) and Dahongpao cuttings (PD), in terms of odor characteristics and ta...
Due to the large acreage of olive trees in the Mediterranean basin, the biochar from olive tree pruning may become an important resource as part of circular economy strategies. However, so far, there is not much knowledge on whether the same characte...
Biodiversity maintenance mechanisms have been central to the study of community ecology, and the negative density dependence effect plays an important role in maintaining species diversity in forest communities. However, the strength and direction of...
In order to improve the level of the urban living environment and improve the comfort level of the microclimate, this paper investigates and simulates numerically the influence on the wind environment of different tree species in various tree array l...
More accurate tree models, such as branch skeleton, are needed to acquire forest inventory data. Currently available algorithms for constructing a branch skeleton from a LiDAR point cloud have low accuracy with problems such as irrational connection...
Trees play a critical role in urban ecological protection and wind disaster mitigation, yet conventional Gaussian-based wind engineering models often underestimate extreme tree motions under turbulent flows. This study aims to clarify the statistical...
This study investigates the structure of soil bacterial communities in the brown mountain soils beneath the deciduous broadleaf forests of Dongling Mountain and their response to soil physicochemical properties. Aiming to provide a scientific basis f...
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