Quantifying Three-dimensional Stand Structure and Its Relationship with Forest Management and Microclimate in Temperate Forest Ecosystems

Download or read book Quantifying Three-dimensional Stand Structure and Its Relationship with Forest Management and Microclimate in Temperate Forest Ecosystems written by Martin Alexander Ehbrecht and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest management modifies the spatial structure of forest ecosystems, which is considered to be relevant for habitat availability and biodiversity as well as several ecosystem processes and functions. Contrary to tree-attribute based measures of stand structure, laser scanning-based approaches allow to quantify the structure of forest ecosystems holistically with high detail and accuracy. In order to investigate impacts of forest management on three-dimensional stand structure and its relationship with forest microclimate, metrics and indices were developed within the frame of this...