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Creator:: Kennedy, Robert E., Yang, Zhiqiang, Cohen, Warren B., Pfaff, Eric, Braaten, Justin, and Nelson, Peder
Abstract:: Understanding fine-grain patterns of forest disturbance and regrowth at the landscape scale is critical for effective management, particularly in forests in western Washington, Oregon, and California, U.S., where the policy known as the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) was imposed in 1994 over > 8 million ha of forest in an...
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Full Text:: number and efficacy, as the recent proliferation of such studies would suggest (Goodwin et al., 2010

Creator:: Wing, Brian M., Ritchie, Martin W., Boston, Kevin, Cohen, Warren B., Gitelman, Alix, and Olsen, Michael J.
Abstract:: Forest understory communities are important components in forest ecosystems providing wildlife habitat and influencing nutrient cycling, fuel loadings, fire behavior and tree species composition over time. One of the most widely utilized understory component metrics is understory vegetation cover, often used as a measure of vegetation abundance. To date, understory...
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Full Text:: incorporated into assessments of biodiversity (Clawges et al., 2008; Goodwin et al., 2007; Hill & Broughton

Creator:: Pflugmacher, Dirk, Cohen, Warren B., and Kennedy, Robert E.
Abstract:: Lidar is currently the most accurate method for remote estimation of forest structure, but it has limited spatial and temporal coverage. Conversely, Landsat data are more widely available, but exhibit a weaker relationship with structure under medium to high leaf area conditions. One potentially valuable means of enhancing the relationship...
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Full Text:: ., 2008; Schroeder et al., 2011), insects (Meigs et al., 2011; Goodwin et al., 2008; Wulder et al., 2005

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