Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and ...

Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and multispectral photography. While radar and LiDAR penetrate canopies to reveal ...

Ozone pollution in the lower atmosphere is known to have adverse effects on forest vegetation, but the degree to which mature forests are impacted has been very difficult to assess directly. In this ...

Scientists have studied competitive growth among trees and their interaction within the forest canopy layer for years. Determining which species of trees are overtopping and/or crowding out other ...

PORTLAND, Ore. May 8, 2009. Creating diverse forests for multiple uses is important to natural resource managers and landowners. A study conducted in southwestern Oregon provides forest managers with ...

Annals of Botany, Vol. 114, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: Functional-Structural Plant Modelling (September 2014), pp. 677-688 (12 pages) • Background and Aims Maximizing photosynthesis at the canopy level is ...

Forests hide critical ecological information beneath dense canopy layers, where traditional imaging techniques struggle to access. This research introduces a breakthrough approach that enables ...