林学期刊(英文)Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojf.2022.123015
M. Teshome, C. M. M. E. Torres, G. Sileshi, P. Mattos, E. Braz, H. Temesgen, S. J. S. S. D. Rocha, Mehari Alebachew
{"title":"Mixed-Species Allometric Equations to Quantify Stem Volume and Tree Biomass in Dry Afromontane Forest of Ethiopia","authors":"M. Teshome, C. M. M. E. Torres, G. Sileshi, P. Mattos, E. Braz, H. Temesgen, S. J. S. S. D. Rocha, Mehari Alebachew","doi":"10.4236/ojf.2022.123015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojf.2022.123015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":63552,"journal":{"name":"林学期刊(英文)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70640212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
林学期刊(英文)Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojf.2022.121003
S. Traoré, Sébastien Ange Habih Nombré, Issiaka Keïta, H. Nacro, B. Sinsin
{"title":"Can Stand Density and Stem Stratification Be Indicators of Aboveground Biomass in Woody Plant Recruitment in Savannah","authors":"S. Traoré, Sébastien Ange Habih Nombré, Issiaka Keïta, H. Nacro, B. Sinsin","doi":"10.4236/ojf.2022.121003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojf.2022.121003","url":null,"abstract":"Stem density and size stratification of woody species are informative of vegetation conditions and its physiognomy in savannah whereas their variation influence woody population functioning. Current study endeavoured to eva-luate the stand density and size variability of woody species related to aboveground biomass in a Sudanian savannah. Total height, stem diameter at breast height (dbh) ≥ 5 cm were measured in 30 plots of 50 m × 20 m laid in respect to vegetation type as bowal, shrubland and woodland. Species diversity, stem density, height and basal area were calculated and compared across sites and variation in stem dbh classes evaluated. Total aboveground biomass was estimated and thereafter linear relationships were established between stand density and aboveground biomass, and basal area. Results revealed three different sites with an overall 58 species identified through vegetation type including liana species (4 stems in bowal) with 18 genera and 42 families. sity and stratification could be considered as indicators of aboveground biomass fluctuating in regeneration monitoring.","PeriodicalId":63552,"journal":{"name":"林学期刊(英文)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70639517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
林学期刊(英文)Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojf.2022.123017
Deepa Dhital, Rabina Manandhar, Puruswattam Manandhar, S. R. Maharjan
{"title":"Soil CO<sub>2</sub> Efflux Dynamics and Its Relationship with the Environmental Variables in a Sub-Tropical Mixed Forest","authors":"Deepa Dhital, Rabina Manandhar, Puruswattam Manandhar, S. R. Maharjan","doi":"10.4236/ojf.2022.123017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojf.2022.123017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":63552,"journal":{"name":"林学期刊(英文)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70639824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
林学期刊(英文)Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojf.2022.124027
Y. Twumasi, Z. H. Ning, J. Namwamba, E. Merem, A. Asare-Ansah, Harriet B. Yeboah, M. Anokye, D. B. Frimpong, P. Loh, Julia Atayi, J. Oppong, Cynthia C. Ogbu, Rechael N. D. Armah, C. Apraku, Opeyemi I. Oladigbolu, Joyce McClendon-Peralta
{"title":"An Assessment of the Potential Use of Forest Residues for the Production of Bio-Oils in the Urban-Rural Interface of Louisiana","authors":"Y. Twumasi, Z. H. Ning, J. Namwamba, E. Merem, A. Asare-Ansah, Harriet B. Yeboah, M. Anokye, D. B. Frimpong, P. Loh, Julia Atayi, J. Oppong, Cynthia C. Ogbu, Rechael N. D. Armah, C. Apraku, Opeyemi I. Oladigbolu, Joyce McClendon-Peralta","doi":"10.4236/ojf.2022.124027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojf.2022.124027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":63552,"journal":{"name":"林学期刊(英文)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70640139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
林学期刊(英文)Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojf.2022.122012
Guy Herman Tchoutezou Zanguim, Abubakar Ali Shidiki, Alphonse Loic Tcheugoue Tientcheu, M. Tchamba
{"title":"Analysis of the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Land Use in the Bamboutos Mountains of the West Region of Cameroon","authors":"Guy Herman Tchoutezou Zanguim, Abubakar Ali Shidiki, Alphonse Loic Tcheugoue Tientcheu, M. Tchamba","doi":"10.4236/ojf.2022.122012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojf.2022.122012","url":null,"abstract":"The current level of knowledge of the biophysical situation, human activity and governance in the Bamboutos Mountains does not shed enough light on the dynamics of the vegetation, the socio-economic aspects and ecological op-portunities that are essential for a successful restoration initiative in this degraded landscape of the Bamboutos mountain ecosystems. The objective of the study was to map and analyze the dynamics of land use from Landsat images of 1980, 2000 and 2021. Supervised classification by maximum likelihood was applied and the dynamics were analyzed using area curves and calculations. The cartographic results were used to produce land use maps. The analysis of the land cover dynamics shows that the evolutionary trend of the vegetation formations is essentially regressive for agro-forests and dense forests at −21.20% and −3.62% respectively. The classes that showed a clear progression were bare soil (9.78%), crop land (8.03%), built-up areas (5.19%) and shrubby savannahs and grassland (1.84%). Agriculture, livestock grazing and demographic pres-sure are the main causes of land degradation and mutation of the landscape. The results of this study provide an understanding of the land-use history of this landscape, and a solid basis for planning a restoration initiative. They provide guidance on priority areas and types of restoration intervention from a social, economic and ecological perspective.","PeriodicalId":63552,"journal":{"name":"林学期刊(英文)","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70640183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
林学期刊(英文)Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojf.2022.123019
T. Oluwajuwon, Racheal Attafuah, C. Offiah, D. Krabel
{"title":"Genetic Variation in Tropical Tree Species and Plantations: A Review","authors":"T. Oluwajuwon, Racheal Attafuah, C. Offiah, D. Krabel","doi":"10.4236/ojf.2022.123019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojf.2022.123019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":63552,"journal":{"name":"林学期刊(英文)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70639885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
林学期刊(英文)Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojf.2022.123020
Jun’ai Hui, Yanshan Xu
{"title":"Diversity Analysis of Ground Cover Plant Communities of Seven Forest Parks in Guangzhou","authors":"Jun’ai Hui, Yanshan Xu","doi":"10.4236/ojf.2022.123020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojf.2022.123020","url":null,"abstract":"Taking the ground cover plants of seven forest parks in Guangzhou as the research object, a total of 79 quadrats were set up, and the frequency of plant occurrences in the quadrats was counted. It belongs to 58 families and 90 ge-nera, including 41 species of herbs, belonging to 25 families and 39 genera; 54 species of woody plants, belonging to 34 families and 47 genera; 1 species of vines, belonging to 1 family and 1 genus; 3 species of ferns, belonging to 3 families and 3 species. The frequency of plant appearance showed that the ground cover in Guangzhou Park was dominated by herbs, with more woody plants and fewer ferns and vines. Herbaceous plants are mainly foliage plants, and there are few coleus plants; there are more coleus plants in woody plants. There are various types of ornamental plants, flexible plant collocation, and rich landscaping levels. Provide data reference for the application of ground cover plants in urban park green space landscape construction.","PeriodicalId":63552,"journal":{"name":"林学期刊(英文)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70639924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
林学期刊(英文)Pub Date : 2021-06-07DOI: 10.4236/OJF.2021.113012
R. Kyere-boateng, M. Marek, M. Huba, T. Kluvankova
{"title":"Perceived Injustices in Forest Policy Interventions are Causes of Forest Resources Degradation and Loss in Ghana: A Review","authors":"R. Kyere-boateng, M. Marek, M. Huba, T. Kluvankova","doi":"10.4236/OJF.2021.113012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/OJF.2021.113012","url":null,"abstract":"Forests \u0000provide diverse co-benefits, including livelihoods enhancement, poverty \u0000alleviation, and biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services such as \u0000climate mitigation. Consequently, Ghana has embraced several global, regional, \u0000national, and local forest policy interventions to safeguard its forest \u0000resources’ sustainable management. However, the forest policy interventions \u0000have not adequately addressed the co-benefits issues of forest resources \u0000leading to several forest illegalities that drive forest resources degradation \u0000and loss. These forest policies and interventions on the ground primarily \u0000favour carbon stocks enhancement and sequestration activities for carbon \u0000mitigation purposes compared to the benefits, access and rights that \u0000forest-dependent people and communities are supposed to derive from forest \u0000resources. These perceived injustices in the access and distribution of forest \u0000resources have culminated into all forms of forest illegalities driving Ghana’s \u0000forest resources into massive degradation and loss. Currently, Ghana is \u0000experiencing a 2% rate of annual deforestation and forest degradation, which \u0000translates into approximately 135,000 ha/year of forest cover loss due to anthropogenic causes. Our review is based \u0000on relevant and critical forest documents, and scientific peer-reviewed papers \u0000on Ghana’s forest policy interventions and dynamics recently published. The \u0000information gathered enabled us to highlight the perceived injustices in the \u0000forest policy interventions and their effects on forest resources. Unjust \u0000forest resources sharing and distribution are critical drivers of forest \u0000resources degradation and loss. We thus offer lessons for remedying the unfair \u0000distribution and injustices to promote equitable forest resources rights and \u0000benefit access to local forest-dependent people. It is expected that this \u0000review will offer and assist forest policy, intervention spatial and other \u0000planners and designers to find a possible way forward to avoid nature \u0000degradation, including biodiversity loss, to resolve perceived injustices in \u0000the forestry sector, to use adequate all ecosystem services provided by forests \u0000as well as to promote local livelihood and sustainability.","PeriodicalId":63552,"journal":{"name":"林学期刊(英文)","volume":"11 1","pages":"171-191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48093229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
林学期刊(英文)Pub Date : 2021-06-07DOI: 10.4236/OJF.2021.113013
Edgard Fleury Koula Mikieleko, Y. Bocko, Grace Jopaul Loubota-Panzou, J. Loumeto
{"title":"Fine Roots Dynamics in Two Forest Strata of a Semi-Deciduous Forest in Northern Republic of Congo","authors":"Edgard Fleury Koula Mikieleko, Y. Bocko, Grace Jopaul Loubota-Panzou, J. Loumeto","doi":"10.4236/OJF.2021.113013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/OJF.2021.113013","url":null,"abstract":"The \u0000belowground biomass is represented by coarse and fine roots. Concentrated in \u0000the superficial horizons of the soil, the fine roots play a crucial role in the \u0000functioning of a forest ecosystem. However, studies on their dynamics in \u0000natural forests are almost non-existent in the Republic of Congo. Here, we \u0000estimated the biomass, production, turnover and fine root lifespan of two \u0000forest strata of a semi-deciduous forest: the Gilbertiodendron dewevrei (De Wild.) J. Leonard forest (GF) and the mixed forest (MF) of land. The \u0000ingrowth cores method was used to estimate the biomass, production, turnover \u0000and lifespan of fine roots. The results of this study revealed that the \u0000biomass, production and fine root turnover of the two forest strata studied \u0000significantly decreased with increasing soil depth, with an increase in \u0000lifespan. The annual fine root biomass of GF (2284.50 ± 37.62 and 1034.61 ± 14.52 ) was slightly lower than that of MF \u0000(2430.07 ± 40.68 and 1043.10 ± 11.75 ) in the \u00000-15 cm and 15-30 cm horizons, respectively. The annual production of fine \u0000roots from these latter horizons was respectively 1300.19 ± 32.17 and 539.18 ± 11.55 in GF and 1362.24 ± 39.59 and 492.95 ± 14.38 in the MF. Root turnover \u0000was higher in the GF (1.68 ± 0.05 and 1.35 ± 0.03 ) \u0000than in the MF (1.57 ± 0.05 and 1.13 ± 0.02 ). \u0000The lifespan of fine roots increased with the depth of the soil. The difference \u0000in fine root dynamics observed between the forest strata studied was influenced \u0000by the Evenness index and the above-ground biomass.","PeriodicalId":63552,"journal":{"name":"林学期刊(英文)","volume":"11 1","pages":"192-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49137705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}