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Forest Research Institute

FacilityDehra Dūn, India
About: Forest Research Institute is a facility organization based out in Dehra Dūn, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Forest management. The organization has 5320 authors who have published 7625 publications receiving 185876 citations.


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TL;DR: The results suggest that salvage logging is not consistent with the management objectives of protected areas, and substantial changes, such as the retention of dead wood in naturally disturbed forests, are needed to support biodiversity.
Abstract: Logging to "salvage" economic returns from forests affected by natural disturbances has become increasingly prevalent globally Despite potential negative effects on biodiversity, salvage logging is often conducted, even in areas otherwise excluded from logging and reserved for nature conservation, inter alia because strategic priorities for post-disturbance management are widely lackingA review of the existing literature revealed that most studies investigating the effects of salvage logging on biodiversity have been conducted less than 5 years following natural disturbances, and focused on non-saproxylic organismsA meta-analysis across 24 species groups revealed that salvage logging significantly decreases numbers of species of eight taxonomic groups Richness of dead wood dependent taxa (ie saproxylic organisms) decreased more strongly than richness of non-saproxylic taxa In contrast, taxonomic groups typically associated with open habitats increased in the number of species after salvage loggingBy analysing 134 original species abundance matrices, we demonstrate that salvage logging significantly alters community composition in 7 of 17 species groups, particularly affecting saproxylic assemblagesSynthesis and applications Our results suggest that salvage logging is not consistent with the management objectives of protected areas Substantial changes, such as the retention of dead wood in naturally disturbed forests, are needed to support biodiversity Future research should investigate the amount and spatio-temporal distribution of retained dead wood needed to maintain all components of biodiversity

252 citations

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TL;DR: Variation in biochemical parameters like chlorophyll, protein, soluble sugar free amino acid, ascorbic acid, nitrate reductase, superoxide dismutase and peroxidase in the leaves were found to be pollution load dependent.
Abstract: In the present study species like Mangifera indica, Linn., Cassia fistula, Linn., and Eucalyptus hybrid were exposed to different air pollution load for short duration (active biomonitoring). Variation in biochemical parameters like chlorophyll, protein, soluble sugar free amino acid, ascorbic acid, nitrate reductase, superoxide dismutase and peroxidase in the leaves were found to be pollution load dependent. These variations can be used as indicators of air pollution for early diagnosis of stress or as a marker for physiological damage to trees prior to the onset of visible injury symptoms. Just by analyzing these biochemical indicators air quality can also be assessed.

251 citations

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Milan Chytrý1, Stephan M. Hennekens2, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro1, Ilona Knollová1, Jürgen Dengler3, Florian Jansen4, Flavia Landucci1, Joop H.J. Schaminée2, Svetlana Aćić5, Emiliano Agrillo, Didem Ambarlı6, Pierangela Angelini, Iva Apostolova7, Fabio Attorre, Christian Berg8, Erwin Bergmeier9, Idoia Biurrun10, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, Henry Brisse, Juan Antonio Campos10, Luis Carlón, Andraž Čarni11, Laura Casella, János Csiky12, Renata Ćušterevska, Zora Dajić Stevanović5, Jiří Danihelka1, Els De Bie13, Patrice de Ruffray, Michele De Sanctis, W. Bernhard Dickoré, Panayotis Dimopoulos14, Dmytro Dubyna, Tetiana Dziuba, Rasmus Ejrnæs15, Nikolai Ermakov16, Jörg Ewald, Giuliano Fanelli, Federico Fernández-González17, Úna FitzPatrick, Xavier Font18, Itziar García-Mijangos10, Rosario G. Gavilán19, Valentin Golub16, Riccardo Guarino20, Rense Haveman21, Adrian Indreica22, Deniz Işık Gürsoy23, Ute Jandt24, John Janssen2, Martin Jiroušek1, Zygmunt Kącki25, Ali Kavgaci26, Martin Kleikamp, Vitaliy Kolomiychuk27, Mirjana Ćuk28, Daniel Krstonošić29, Anna Kuzemko, Jonathan Lenoir30, Tatiana Lysenko16, Corrado Marcenò1, Corrado Marcenò31, Vassiliy Martynenko16, Dana Michalcová1, Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund15, Viktor Onyshchenko, Hristo Pedashenko7, Aaron Pérez-Haase18, Tomáš Peterka1, Vadim Prokhorov32, Valerijus Rašomavičius, Maria Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo17, John S. Rodwell, Tatiana Rogova32, Eszter Ruprecht33, Solvita Rūsiņa34, Gunnar Seidler24, Jozef Šibík35, Urban Šilc11, Željko Škvorc29, Desislava Sopotlieva7, Zvjezdana Stančić29, Jens-Christian Svenning15, Grzegorz Swacha25, Ioannis Tsiripidis36, Pavel Dan Turtureanu33, Emin Uğurlu23, Domas Uogintas, Milan Valachovič35, Yulia Vashenyak, Kiril Vassilev7, Roberto Venanzoni37, Risto Virtanen38, Lynda Weekes, Wolfgang Willner, Thomas Wohlgemuth, S. M. Yamalov16 
TL;DR: The European Vegetation Archive (EVA) as mentioned in this paper is a database of European vegetation plots developed by the IAVS Working Group Europe Vegetation Survey (WGSVSS) since 2012 and made available for use in research projects in 2014.
Abstract: The European Vegetation Archive (EVA) is a centralized database of European vegetation plots developed by the IAVS Working Group European Vegetation Survey. It has been in development since 2012 and first made available for use in research projects in 2014. It stores copies of national and regional vegetation- plot databases on a single software platform. Data storage in EVA does not affect on-going independent development of the contributing databases, which remain the property of the data contributors. EVA uses a prototype of the database management software TURBOVEG 3 developed for joint management of multiple databases that use different species lists. This is facilitated by the SynBioSys Taxon Database, a system of taxon names and concepts used in the individual European databases and their corresponding names on a unified list of European flora. TURBOVEG 3 also includes procedures for handling data requests, selections and provisions according to the approved EVA Data Property and Governance Rules. By 30 June 2015, 61 databases from all European regions have joined EVA, contributing in total 1 027 376 vegetation plots, 82% of them with geographic coordinates, from 57 countries. EVA provides a unique data source for large-scale analyses of European vegetation diversity both for fundamental research and nature conservation applications. Updated information on EVA is available online at http://euroveg.org/eva-database.

250 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: The spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), is the most destructive scolytid in the coniferous forests of the palaearctic region.
Abstract: The spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), is the most destructive scolytid in the coniferous forests of the palaearctic region. In Europe, outbreaks may lead to the destruction of millions of Norway spruces [Picea abies (Linnaeus) Karsten], its principal host tree. In Northeastern Asia a subspecies, Ips typographus Linnaeus f. japonicus Niijima, may cause severe damage to spruces in the group P. jezoensis (Siebold and Zuccarini) Carriere sensu lato.

249 citations

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TL;DR: A global database of 108753 trees for which stem diameter, height and crown diameter have all been measured is compiled and it is found that a single equation predicts stem diameter from these two variables across the world's forests.
Abstract: Remote sensing is revolutionizing the way we study forests, and recent technological advances mean we are now able - for the first time - to identify and measure the crown dimensions of individual trees from airborne imagery. Yet to make full use of these data for quantifying forest carbon stocks and dynamics, a new generation of allometric tools which have tree height and crown size at their centre are needed. Here, we compile a global database of 108753 trees for which stem diameter, height and crown diameter have all been measured, including 2395 trees harvested to measure aboveground biomass. Using this database, we develop general allometric models for estimating both the diameter and aboveground biomass of trees from attributes which can be remotely sensed - specifically height and crown diameter. We show that tree height and crown diameter jointly quantify the aboveground biomass of individual trees and find that a single equation predicts stem diameter from these two variables across the world's forests. These new allometric models provide an intuitive way of integrating remote sensing imagery into large-scale forest monitoring programmes and will be of key importance for parameterizing the next generation of dynamic vegetation models.

248 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Kari Alitalo174817114231
Jaakko Kaprio1631532126320
Glenn D. Prestwich8869042758
John K. Volkman7821221931
Petri T. Kovanen7743227171
Hailong Wang6964719652
Mika Ala-Korpela6531918048
Heikki Henttonen6427114536
Zhihong Xu5743811832
Kari Pulkki5421511166
Louis A. Schipper531929224
Sang Young Lee532719917
Young-Joon Ahn522889121
Venkatesh Narayanamurti492589399
Francis M. Kelliher491248599
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
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202226
2021504
2020503
2019440
2018381