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Tropical forest

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Fernando Porté Agel, Corey Dean Markfort

Lakes with a surface area of less than 10 km^2 account for over 50% of the global cumulative lake surface water area, and make up more than 99% of the total number of global lakes, ponds, and wetlands. Within the boreal regions as well as some temperate an ...

2014

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

Nonquadratic Stochastic Model Predictive Control: A Tractable Approach

Milan Korda

This paper deals with the nite horizon stochastic optimal control problem with the expectation of the p-norm as the objective function and jointly Gaussian, although not necessarily independent, additive disturbance process. We develop an approximation str ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2012

Comparison between open-site and below-canopy climatic conditions in Switzerland for different types of forests over 10 years (1998-2007)

Martine Rebetez, Valentine Renaud

We compared below-canopy and open-site climatic conditions for 14 different forest sites in Switzerland and analysed the forest influence on local summer and winter climate according to the forest type (coniferous, mixed, deciduous), soil type, slope orien ...

Springer Vienna2011

Towards a Minergie Standard for tropical climates

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Franco Vigliotti, Claude-Alain Roulet, Fouad Aabid

The Swiss Minergie®-standard is, by the number of labelled buildings (> 20'000) one of the most successful building energy labels in the world. It is obviously a strong incentive for designing comfortable, low energy buildings. This standard is now valid f ...

EPFL2011

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

A review of habitat thresholds for dead wood: a baseline for management recommendations in European forests

In contemporary forest management, also of commercial forests, threshold values are widely used for consideration of biodiversity conservation. Here, we present various aspects of dead-wood threshold values. We review published and unpublished dead-wood th ...

2010

Comparaison des caractéristiques climatiques sous couvert forestier et hors couvert

Valentine Renaud

We compared open-site and below-canopy climatic conditions from 14 different sites in Switzerland based on LWF data (Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research). The 14 sites represent different locations, orientations and elevations, from the Jura Mountains to t ...

EPFL2010

Satellite cartography of atmospheric methane from SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT: (II) Comparison with inverse model simulations

Jed Oliver Kaplan

We extend the analysis of a global CH4 data set retrieved from SCIAMACHY (Frankenberg et al., 2006) by making a detailed comparison with inverse TM5 model simulations for 2003 that are optimized versus high accuracy CH4 surface measurements from the NOAA E ...

2007

Prevention of forest fires in a changing climatic context in Ticino, southern Switzerland

Michael Reinhard

Switzerland is not a place commonly associated with forest fires, unlike many areas of the nearby Mediterranean Basin. However, in this Alpine country, forest fires occur every year and destroy forests that fulfil various functions, the most socially and e ...

EPFL2006

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