Forest Dynamics

SILVI-STAR: A Comprehensive Monitoring System

• Author(s): Henk Koop,
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• Pages: 229
• ISBN_10: 3642750125
  ISBN_13: 9783642750120
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General , Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Forestry , Business & Economics / Economics / General , Science / Life Sciences / Botany , Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General , Science / Life Sciences / Ecology , Science / Life Sciences / Horticulture , Business & Economics / Environmental Economics ,

Description:... No matter what forests are used for, forest managers have to deal with interactions between individual trees and between trees and other forest organisms. To understand these interactions, long-term monitoring of spontaneous forest development is necessary. A complete monitoring system has been developed including a computer package for analysis of long-term observation of forest dynamics. The system's name, "SILVI-STAR", is an acronym of SILVIgenesis and Single-tree Three-dimensional Architecture. A method of nested plot data collection on forest architecture and plant species composition has been developed out for monitoring purposes.