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Environmental Sciences Proceedings, Volume 3, Issue 1

IECF 2020 2021 - 109 articles

The 1st International Electronic Conference on Forests—Forests for a Better Future: Sustainability, Innovation, Interdisciplinarity

Online | 15–30 November 2020

Volume Editors:
Angela Lo Monaco, University of Tuscia, Italy
Cate Macinnis-Ng, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Om P. Rajora, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Cover Story: This 1st International Electronic Conference on Forests (IECF), held on 15–30 November 2020, was an opportunity to showcase current research under the theme of Forests for a Better Future: Sustainability, Innovation, Interdisciplinarity. Extended abstracts for this conference describe a range of subjects, including biocontrol, wood treatments, urban forests, forest genetics/biology, mapping of fire spread, and harvesting and logging practices.
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Articles (109)

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
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Short rotation forestry (SRF) provides an important supply of biomass for investors in this area. In the NE (North-East) part of Romania at the present time are installed over 800 Ha of this kind of crops. The SRF enjoys the support through environme...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
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Feasibility of Sustainable Management of Secondary Atlantic Forest: Recovery and Mortality Rates of Damaged Trees Two Years After Harvesting

  • Pedro C. Britto,
  • Dirk Jaeger,
  • Stephan Hoffmann,
  • Renato C. G. Robert,
  • Alexander C. Vibrans and
  • Alfredo C. Fantini

Subject to overexploitation in past centuries, the Atlantic Forest is now strictly protected, including a ban on timber harvesting. However, this strict protection is a very controversial issue. It resulted in a lack of willingness of landholders to...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1 Citations
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Early Detection of Bark Beetle Infestation by Drone-Based Monoterpene Detection

  • Sebastian Paczkowski,
  • Pawan Datta,
  • Heidrun Irion,
  • Stefan Pelz and
  • Dirk Jaeger

The project PROTECTFOREST deals with the improvement of early bark beetle detection to allow a fast and effective response to initial infestation. The removal of trees in the early infestation stage can prohibit bark beetle population gradation and s...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
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Linking Visual and Stress Wave Grading of Beech Wood from the Log to the Sawmill Product

  • Aleš Straže,
  • Denis Plavčak,
  • Ervin Žveplan and
  • Željko Gorišek

The quality potential and possibilities of using beech logs and sawn wood was investigated. Twenty-seven beech logs, with a mean diameter of 48 cm, were cut from 10 trees from a Hacquetio epipactidis-Fagetum site in SE Slovenia. The trees were pre-se...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
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Forest ecosystem services have played a vital role in human well-being. Particularly, recreational ecosystem services are creating physical and mental well-being for human beings. Therefore, the main objective of the paper is to estimate the economic...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
8 Citations
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Accuracy of Photo-Optical Measurement of Wood Piles

  • Tobias Cremer,
  • Ferreol Berendt,
  • Felipe de Miguel Diez,
  • Felix Wolfgramm and
  • Lubomir Blasko

The accurate estimation of timber volume is of the utmost importance. For industrial timber, the volume is often estimated as stacked cubic meters. In addition to manual measurements, volume estimation is possible with photo-optical systems. Over 100...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
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The Needles and Shoots Structure Variability of Polish Populations of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) at a 50-Years-Old Provenance Experiment in Central Poland

  • Włodzimierz Buraczyk,
  • Marcin Czacharowski,
  • Agata Konecka,
  • Mirela Tulik,
  • Henryk Szeligowski and
  • Mateusz Będkowski

The analysis of population variability usually concerns the adaptability of trees to changing climatic conditions and their timber production possibilities. It is already known that several phenotypic and genotypic features determine the adaptation p...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
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Climate changes, taking place in Poland, have a very negative impact on populations of many tree species. An example of a highly endangered and, at the same time, very valuable stock is the population of Norway spruce from the Białowieża Primeval For...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
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Lomatia hirsuta (Lam.) Diels is a pioneer tree species that regenerates mostly after fire and is more frequently found as a secondary species in Patagonian forests dominated by Austrocedrus chilensis and Nothofagus dombeyi. However, in the El Manso V...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,470 Views
5 Pages

Preservation and increase of forest area are necessary conditions for the biosphere functioning. Forest ecosystems in most parts of the world are affected by fires. According to the latest data, the forest fire situation has become complicated in Ukr...

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