The best way to rejuvenate forests is to let in a little light - but not too much.
Tag - Forestry
Dale Maylea
Sampling forests with terrestrial laser scanning
Terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) have successfully captured various properties of individual trees and have potential to further increase the quality and efficiency of forest surveys. However, TLSs are limited to line...
botanyone
Larch, still Number 1!*
If a tree falls in a forest, can it still insulate people from sound pollution?
Nigel Chaffey
Sustainable trees…
Not much of a story? Aren’t all trees sustainable [“avoiding depletion of natural resources”; “capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural resources or causing severe ecological...
Warming in the forests
While looking for something else, I found a couple of papers in JXB and Forestry that caught my eye. The popular expectation is that more CO2 is good for plants, because that’s what they breathe. What gets lost is...
Alun Salt
Size-dependent changes in wood chemical traits: a comparison of neotropical saplings and large trees
We have a fundamental and applied understanding of how differences in the wood chemistry of trees affects the durability of wood products. By comparison, relatively little is known about the ecological causes and...
AoBPLANTS
International Year of Forests 2011
2011 marks the International Year of Forests, a U.N. initiative to raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests.
annbot
Thousands of trees felled in UK to stop Sudden Oak Death
Thousands of trees are being felled in Somerset to stop the spread of a killer disease. Sudden Oak Death attacks more than 100 varieties of plants and is spreading faster than predicted. The National Trust And The...
AJ Cann
January Sales open on English forests
Via Tom Goskar comes news that the UK government has announced the next plan to reduce the deficit. It is to sell the English forests. Every single state-owned tree is for sale, around 18% of the forests in England...
