Anthropogenic stress and disturbance of forest ecosystems (FES) has been increasing at all
scales from local to global. In rapidly changing environments, in-situ terrestrial FES …

Tropical forests host at least two-thirds of the world's flora and fauna diversity and store 25%
of the terrestrial above and belowground carbon. However, biodiversity decline due to …

Develo** a robust and cost-effective method for accurately estimating tropical forest's
carbon pool over large area is a fundamental requirement for the implementation of …

The accurate classification of tree species is essential for the sustainable management of
forest resources and the effective monitoring of biodiversity. However, a literature review …

Anthropogenic pressure in tropical montane forests is rapidly increasing, becoming a major
threat to these complex ecosystems. Studies have shown that the wide variety of human …

Tropical forests play an important role in carbon storage, accumulating large amounts of
carbon in their aboveground and belowground components. However, anthropogenic land …

Abstract The potential of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) on expanding the horizon of
forest ecology has been realized, but this does not mean that the related interdisciplinary …

Tropical rainforests support a large proportion of the Earth's plant and animal species within
a restricted global distribution, and play an important role in regulating the Earth's climate …

Deforestation and forest degradation in Andean forests is influenced by natural and social
environments including a wide elevation range and anthropogenic disturbance. Tree …

Tree beta-diversity denotes the variation in species composition at stand level, it is a key
indicator of forest degradation, and is conjointly required with alpha-diversity for …