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Tropical vegetation

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Signs of critical transition in the Everglades wetlands in response to climate and anthropogenic changes

The increasing pressure of climatic change and anthropogenic activities is predicted to have major effects on ecosystems around the world. With their fragility and sensitivity to hydrologic shifts and land-use changes, wetlands are among the most vulnerabl ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

A model for global biomass burning in preindustrial time: LPJ-LMfire (v1.0)

Jed Oliver Kaplan, Mirjam Pfeiffer

Fire is the primary disturbance factor in many terrestrial ecosystems. Wildfire alters vegetation structure and composition, affects carbon storage and biogeochemical cycling, and results in the release of climatically relevant trace gases including CO2, C ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2013

Quantifying Biomass Of Secondary Forest After Slash-And-Burn Cultivation In Central Menabe, Madagascar

Alexandre Buttler, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Jean-Michel Gobat

RAHARIMALALA O, BUTTLER A, SCHLAEPFER R & GOBAT J-M. 2012. Quantifying biomass of secondary forest after slash-and-burn cultivation in Central Menabe, Madagascar. Biomass is the principal input of nutrients in slash-and-burn cultivation of tropical dry dec ...

Forest Research Inst Malaysia2012

Biomass selection by floods and related timescales: Part 1. Experimental observations

Paolo Perona, Benoît Crouzy, Katharina Maria Edmaier, Peter Molnar, Zhe Jiang

Several research investigations have explored the interaction between morphodynamic and vegetation growth processes from both the modelling and the experimental viewpoints. Results have mainly been concerned with morphologic analyses of the effects of vege ...

Elsevier2012

Use of a Distributed Sensor Network to Parameterize a Model of Flows between the Soil, Vegetation, and Atmosphere in a Mixed Savanna-Agricultural Catchment in South Eastern Burkina Faso.

Natalie Claire Ceperley

The hydrologic processes underlying a natural savanna in a semi-arid environment is altered when savanna is converted to agriculture. Inﬁltration is often observed to decrease while rapid runoff increases to the detriment of crop productivity, downstream p ...

2012

Automated Assessment of Digital Terrain Models Derived From Airborne Laser Scanning

Jan Skaloud, Philipp Schär

This paper presents the derivation of surface-related quality indicators describing the confidence-metrics of the final geo-products de- rived from airborne laser scanning (ALS). We first discuss the number of factors influencing the qual- ity of the digit ...

2012

Relating the X-band Opacity of a Tropical Tree Canopy to Sapflow, Rain Interception and Dew Formation

Marc Schneebeli Zeugin

During summer and autumn 2007, a 11 GHz microwave radiometer was deployed in an experimental tree plantation in Sardinilla, Panama. The opacity of the tree canopy was derived from incoming brightness temperatures received on the ground. A collocated eddy-c ...

2011

Evidence and modelling biomass selection by floods in a riverbed

Paolo Perona, Benoît Crouzy

Riparian and in-bed vegetation growth and erosion dynamics are strongly coupled with river hydrologic and morphodynamic processes. Many field observations documented the engineering role of vegetation and its contribution to build, stabilize and control er ...

2011

Tropical forest conservation: attitudes and preferences

Andrea Baranzini, Anne-Kathrin Faust

This paper applies contingent valuation to assess public awareness of tropical deforestation; to investigate the willingness to pay (WTP) to conserve tropical forests; and to determine the impact of the payment vehicle on the stated willingness to pay. Abo ...

Elsevier2010

Gravel bar inundation frequency : an indicator fort he ecological potentiel of a river

Anton Schleiss, Walter Gostner

In braiding river systems, gravel bars fulfill important ecological functions. At the River Sense, one of the last unregulated rivers in Switzerland, the frequency of gravel bar inundation of a 2 km long site maintaining indicator species such as Myricaria ...

Ed. Dittrich, Koll, Aeberle & Geisenhainer2010

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