The aim of this study is to identify the dynamic and to present the main factors intrinsic to the soil cover that govern natural erosion on a forest area with a widespread red and black soil system in South India, by using a structural
Contribution of dead wood to the carbon flux in forested streams
The AA. evaluated the contribution of dead wood to the total carbon flux in 2 headwaters forested streams in northern Spain, one running under mature deciduous forest, the other under eucalyptus plantations. Breakdown rates were measured from
Spatial patterns of ice storm disturbance on a forested landscape in the Appalachian Mountains, Virginia
Appalachian Mountains ; Forest ; Impact ; Mountain ; Remote sensing ; Slope gradient ; Storm ; Topography ; United States of America ; Vegetation index ; Virginia
This study uses satellite imagery to investigate spatial heterogeneity of forest damage caused by ice storms that affected the Appalachian Mountains, Virginia during 1994. The results display a region-scale (southwest-to-northeast) gradient
Simulated effect of a forest road on near-surface hydrologic response : redux
A physics-based Integrated Hydrology Model (InHM) was employed to conduct both three- and two-dimensional (3D and 2D) hydrologic-response simulations for the small upland catchment known as C3, located within the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest
simulations, was employed to estimate slope stability along the long-profile of the C3 hollow axis, and to study the impact of forest roads on near-surface hydrologic response and slope stability at the catchment scale.
Geomorphic and riparian forest influences on characteristics of large wood and large-wood jams in old-growth and second-growth forests in Northern Michigan, USA
Biogeography ; Channel geometry ; Ecosystem ; Forest ; Michigan ; Multivariate analysis ; Regression analysis ; Riparian vegetation ; Stream ; United States of America ; Vegetation dynamics
This paper explores the soil nutrient pools of 14 young dry grasslands and compares them to the nutrient pools on heathlands, forested and agricultural land. On 2 sites, the plant species composition is compared to characteristic species for the EU
Arable land ; Czech Republic ; Forest ; Frontier region ; Land use ; Meadow ; Nineteenth Century ; Pastureland ; Twentieth Century
In this study, we examine land use changes in border regions of Czechia during last 160 years. We focused on five most important and interesting land use categories - arable land, meadows and pastures, forested areas and built-up areas. Border
features and in sediments. Neither the rain forests in Amazonia nor the salars and lakes on the tropical-subtropical altiplano looked in the past 10.000 to 20.000 years, even less in the past 1 or 2 million years, as they look today. In course of global
climate changes (such as ice ages) the rain forests shrank, savannahs expanded and deserts existed where dense vegetation dominates today. Or big lake sand long glaciers existed in today´s desert like central Andean valleys. Apart from temperature changes
Biogeography ; Climate ; Climatic change ; Ecosystem ; Ecotone ; Forest ; Mountain ; North America ; Tree line ; Tundra
The aim of this paper is to examine the processes that link treeline to local and regional controls, and so improve the expectations for their response to climate change. Although the mechanistic processes are fundamentally the same for all forest
The coastal dunes on the western coast of Hainan Island are influenced by factors such as onshore winds, sand sources, coastal slopes, rivers, and forest shelter belts. The source of the sand that supplements these dunes, particularly influences
the development pattern. The presence or absence of forest shelter belts also influences deposition and dune development patterns and transformation of dune forms. Coastal dunes and inland desert dunes experience similar dynamic processes, but the former have more