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Daniel Paredes, Sara Mendes and José Paulo Sousa
Chrysoperla carnea s.l., a vital predator in olive groves, plays a key role in reducing the reliance on pesticides. Despite its efficacy, habitat diversification at the landscape level can compromise its effectiveness as a generalist natural enemy, diver...
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Suchandra Hazra, Prithvi Morampudi, John C. Prindle, Dhan Lord B. Fortela, Rafael Hernandez, Mark E. Zappi and Prashanth Buchireddy
Biomass is an excellent sustainable carbon neutral energy source, however its use as a coal/petroleum coke substitute in thermal applications poses several challenges. Several inherent properties of biomass including higher heating value (HHV), bulk dens...
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Kihong Chun, Dongwoo Song and Kisung Kim
Most electrical transmission lines are located in forests, and currently in South Korea, deregulation has allowed various structures to be built on the ground below transmission lines. Events of fires occurring below high-voltage transmission lines can l...
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Leonel J. R. Nunes
The use of biomass as a renewable energy source is currently a reality, mainly due to the role it can play in replacing fossil energy sources. Within this possibility, coal substitution in the production of electric energy presents itself as a strong alt...
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Thigesh Vather, Colin Everson and Trenton E. Franz
Knowledge of soil water at a range of spatial scales would further our understanding of the dynamic variable and its influence on numerous hydrological applications. Cosmic ray neutron technology currently consists of the Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor (CRNS)...
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Steffi Heinrichs, Christian Ammer, Martina Mund, Steffen Boch, Sabine Budde, Markus Fischer, Jörg Müller, Ingo Schöning, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Wolfgang Schmidt, Martin Weckesser and Peter Schall
Tree species diversity can positively affect the multifunctionality of forests. This is why conifer monocultures of Scots pine and Norway spruce, widely promoted in Central Europe since the 18th and 19th century, are currently converted into mixed stands...
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Kaori Otsu, Magda Pla, Andrea Duane, Adrián Cardil and Lluís Brotons
Periodical outbreaks of Thaumetopoea pityocampa feeding on pine needles may pose a threat to Mediterranean coniferous forests by causing severe tree defoliation, growth reduction, and eventually mortality. To cost?effectively monitor the temporal and spa...
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Nicolás Rodríguez-Jeangros, Amanda S. Hering and John E. McCray
In recent decades, the Rocky Mountains (RM) have undergone significant changes associated with anthropogenic activities and natural disturbances. These changes have the potential to alter primary productivity and biomass carbon storage. In particular, di...
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Jean-Baptiste Filippi, Frédéric Bosseur, Céline Mari and Christine Lac
The Aullene fire devastated more than 3000 ha of Mediterranean maquis and pine forest in July 2009. The simulation of combustion processes, as well as atmospheric dynamics represents a challenge for such scenarios because of the various involved scales, ...
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Sudhanshu Panda, Devendra M. Amatya, Rhett Jackson, Ge Sun and Asko Noormets
The study goal was to develop automated user-friendly remote-sensing based evapotranspiration (ET) estimation tools: (i) artificial neural network (ANN) based models, (ii) ArcGIS-based automated geospatial model, and (iii) executable software to predict ...
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