Publications related to Forest dynamics

Impact of intercepted and sub-canopy snow microstructure on snowpack response to rain-on-snow events under a boreal canopy

Michael Lehning, Adrien Michel, Nander Wever, Daniel Nadeau, Benjamin Bouchard

Rain-on-snow events can cause severe flooding in snow-dominated regions. These are expected to become more frequent in the future as climate change shifts the precipitation from snowfall to rainfall. However, little is known about how winter rainfall inter ...

2024

Soil warming alters tree water use and canopy stomatal conductance in a mixed subtropical forest

Charlotte Grossiord, Christoph Bachofen

As air temperature and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) increase continuously, forests are losing more water through evapotranspiration, with large consequences for local and global hydrological cycles. In regions with high vegetation cover, soil warming can b ...

Elsevier2024

Semi-Supervised Deep Learning Representations in Earth Observation Based Forest Management

Devis Tuia, Marc Conrad Russwurm, Lloyd Haydn Hughes, Oleg Antropov, Sudipan Saha

In this study, we examine the potential of several self-supervised deep learning models in predicting forest attributes and detecting forest changes using ESA Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images. The performance of the proposed deep learning models is compare ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc2023

Hydrological trends and the evolution of catchment research in the Alptal valley, central Switzerland

Jana Freiin von Freyberg, Ilja van Meerveld

When the observation of small headwater catchments in the pre-Alpine Alptal valley (central Switzerland) started in the late 1960s, the researchers were mainly interested in questions related to floods and forest management. Investigations of geomorphologi ...

2021

A New Framework to Model Hydraulic Bank Erosion Considering the Effects of Roots

Paolo Perona, Massimiliano Schwarz

Floods and subsequent bank erosion are recurring hazards that pose threats to people and can cause damage to buildings and infrastructure. While numerous approaches exist on modeling bank erosion, very few consider the stabilizing effects of vegetation (i. ...

MDPI2020

Disturbance-grazer-vegetation interactions maintain habitat diversity in mountain pasture-woodlands

Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer

Low-intensity livestock grazing is a widespread management tool in order to maintain habitat diversity in mountain pasture-woodlands for nature conservation purposes. Historical photographs indicate that forest disturbance significantly contributed to fore ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Competition for light and water in a coupled soil-plant system

Gabriele Manoli, Sara Bonetti, Gabriel George Katul

It is generally accepted that resource availability shapes the structure and function of many ecosystems. Within the soil-plant-atmosphere (SPA) system, resource availability fluctuates in space and time whereas access to resources by individuals is furthe ...

2017

Linking historical land use to present vegetation and soil characteristics under slash-and-burn cultivation in Madagascar

Alexandre Buttler, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills, Andry Randriamikatra Randrianarison

Aim: In this paper, we link historical land use of cultivated parcels formerly slashed and burnt, with current secondary vegetation and soil characteristics, in the region of evergreen rain forest in Madagascar. Aim is to understand the legacy effect of fo ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

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Forest dynamics

Impact of intercepted and sub-canopy snow microstructure on snowpack response to rain-on-snow events under a boreal canopy

Soil warming alters tree water use and canopy stomatal conductance in a mixed subtropical forest

From roots to canopy: Unraveling the influence of species diversity on tree water relations under warmer and drier climates

Semi-Supervised Deep Learning Representations in Earth Observation Based Forest Management

Hydrological trends and the evolution of catchment research in the Alptal valley, central Switzerland

A New Framework to Model Hydraulic Bank Erosion Considering the Effects of Roots

Ecohydrological changes after tropical forest conversion to oil palm

Disturbance-grazer-vegetation interactions maintain habitat diversity in mountain pasture-woodlands

Competition for light and water in a coupled soil-plant system

Linking historical land use to present vegetation and soil characteristics under slash-and-burn cultivation in Madagascar

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Impact of intercepted and sub-canopy snow microstructure on snowpack response to rain-on-snow events under a boreal canopy

Soil warming alters tree water use and canopy stomatal conductance in a mixed subtropical forest

From roots to canopy: Unraveling the influence of species diversity on tree water relations under warmer and drier climates

Ecohydrological changes after tropical forest conversion to oil palm

Competition for light and water in a coupled soil-plant system

Hydrological trends and the evolution of catchment research in the Alptal valley, central Switzerland

Disturbance-grazer-vegetation interactions maintain habitat diversity in mountain pasture-woodlands

Semi-Supervised Deep Learning Representations in Earth Observation Based Forest Management

A New Framework to Model Hydraulic Bank Erosion Considering the Effects of Roots

Linking historical land use to present vegetation and soil characteristics under slash-and-burn cultivation in Madagascar