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Spatial predictions of human and natural-caused wildfire likelihood across Montana (USA)
(MDPI, 2022)Spatial wildfire ignition predictions are needed to ensure efficient and effective wildfire response, and robust methods for modeling new wildfire occurrences are ever-emerging. Here, ignition locations of natural and ... -
Trajectories of wildfire behavior under climate change. Can forest management mitigate the increasing hazard?
(Elsevier, 2022)Mediterranean forests and fire regimes are closely intertwined. Global change is likely to alter both forest dynamics and wildfire activity, ultimately threatening the provision of ecosystem services and posing greater ... -
Perceptions of Heat Stress, Heat Strain and Mitigation Practices in Wildfire Suppression across Southern Europe and Latin America
(MDPI, 2022)This study aimed to assess current perceptions of heat stress, heat strain, acclimatisation and recovery practices in wildland fire suppression. A total of 1459 wildfire and structural firefighters, all involved in wildland ... -
Coupled effects of climate teleconnections on drought, Santa Ana winds and wildfires in southern California
(Elsevier, 2021)Projections of future climate change impacts suggest an increase of wildfire activity in Mediterranean ecosystems, such as southern California. This region is a wildfire hotspot and fire managers are under increasingly high ... -
Understanding fire regimes in Europe
(CSIRO Publishing, 2021)Wildland fire effects are strongly associated with fire regime characteristics. Here, we developed the first European pyrogeography based on different fire regime components to better understand fire regimes across the ... -
AKFruitData: A dual software application for Azure Kinect cameras to acquire and extract informative data in yield tests performed in fruit orchard environments
(Elsevier, 2022-10-29)The emergence of low-cost 3D sensors, and particularly RGB-D cameras, together with recent advances in artificial intelligence, is currently driving the development of in-field methods for fruit detection, size measurement ... -
Bed-material entrainment in a mountain river affected by hydropeaking
(Elsevier, 2023-01-15)Hydropeaking, by artificially generated flow peaks, influences hydro-sedimentary dynamics on rivers and, consequently, affects bed material entrainment and transport. This study examines the onset of motion of sediment ... -
Trajectories of wildfire behavior under climate change. Can forest management mitigate the increasing hazard?
(Elsevier, 2022-09-05)Mediterranean forests and fire regimes are closely intertwined. Global change is likely to alter both forest dynamics and wildfire activity, ultimately threatening the provision of ecosystem services and posing greater ... -
Emerging stability of forest productivity by mixing two species buffers temperature destabilizing effect
(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2022)The increasing disturbances in monocultures around the world are testimony to their instability under global change. Many studies have claimed that temporal stability of productivity increases with species richness, although ... -
With increasing site quality asymmetric competition and mortality reduces scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stand structuring across Europe
(Elsevier, 2022)Heterogeneity of structure can increase mechanical stability, stress resistance and resilience, biodiversity and many other functions and services of forest stands. That is why many silvicultural measures aim at enhancing ... -
Spatially explicit modeling of the probability of land abandonment in the Spanish Pyrenees
(Elsevier, 2022)Many mountain regions in Europe have experienced massive migrations towards metropolitan areas, with far-reaching implications for societies and the environment, especially croplands and grasslands. In this work, we tailored ... -
Soil gas diffusivity and pore continuity dynamics under different tillage and crop sequences in an irrigated Mediterranean area
(Elsevier, 2022)Gas diffusion can be used to quantify soil quality and structural development that is strongly affected by soil use and management practices. There is a lack of information about the quantitative effect of tillage combined ... -
Soil erodibility in European mountain beech forests
(Canadian Science Publishing, 2021)Forests in Europe are currently not endangered by soil erosion. However, this can change with climate change or with intensified forest management practices. Using a newly established network of plots in beech forests ... -
Local characteristics of the standing genetic diversity of European beech with high within-region differentiation at the eastern part of the range
(Canadian Science Publishing, 2021)Developing "climate smart forestry" (CSF) indicators in mountain forest regions requires collection and evaluation of local data and their attributes. Genetic resources are listed among the core indicators for forest ... -
Modulus of rupture prediction in Pinus sylvestris with multivariate models constructed with resonance, ultrasound, and wood heterogeneity variables
(North Carolina State University, 2021-12-17)Multivariate models with multiple linear regression (MLR), artificial neural network (ANN), and k-nearest neighbors (KNN) were developed to predict the modulus of rupture of Pinus sylvestris structural timber. The aim of ... -
Dynamic modulus of elasticity in flexural vibration tests of Pinus sylvestris sawn timber obtained with fundamental resonant frequency and overtones
(De Gruyter, 2022-02-28)The use of resonant frequency is presently one of the most used non-destructive testing (NDT) methods to predict the mechanical properties of sawn timber. In most cases, only the first vibration mode is used to estimate ... -
Evaluation of a boxwood topiary trimming robot
(Elsevier, 2022)This paper describes a new robot specifically developed for topiary trimming and evaluatesits performance through a novel evaluation method. Experiments were carried out in a realgarden letting the robot trim spherical-, ... -
Sensors de sòl per optimitzar la zonificació del reg
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Simultaneous treatment with oil heat and densification on physical properties of Populus × Canadensis wood
(Universidad del Bío-Bío, 2022)Samples of wood from Populus × canadensis (9,5 % moisture) were treated with olive oil at 195 °C simultaneously with 15 % or 30 % compression densification, and the results were compared with samples subjected to oil heat ... -
Delineation of management zones in hedgerow almond orchards based on vegetation indices from UAV images validated by LiDAR-derived canopy parameters
(MDPI, 2022)One of the challenges in orchard management, in particular of hedgerow tree plantations, is the delineation of management zones on the bases of high-precision data. Along this line, the present study analyses the applicability ...