... lower content of oxidable carbon under PP (only 14.9% in humification horizon) His study was conducted in a lower altitude and all ten tested species had very low content of carbon in H horizon, ... and V – saturation of the adsorption complex with bases, Kappen 1929), oxidable C (Springer-Klee method) and total N (Kjeldahl method) content and exchangeable titration acidity Mean values and ... spruce forest site type (8K) In this locality, blue spruce forest stand was planted from 1985 to 1990 (repair planting), after the forest decay of Norway spruce forest stand caused by air pollution...
... represents (thanks to its limited size and vicinity of forest stands) a characteristic ecotone zone with a marked ecotone effect, i.e the occurrence of both forestand nonforest species of small mammals ... natural forests and affect the dynamics of these ecosystems depending on their population dynamics References A K.F., B W.F (1998): Seasonal variations of diet composition in farmland field ... substantially smaller effects onforest regeneration in forest reserves than the consumption of tree seeds (G 1992; H et al 2008; S 2008) Unsuitable site conditions for rodents particularly...
... Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Russia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey ... forestcarbon stocks 921 Figure 11 Simulation results from the Edinburgh Forest Model: Carbon stocks at 22 sites Effects of changes in [CO2], climate and N-deposition oncarbon stocks in conifer forests ... environment 3.2 RECOGNITION: Simulations of changes in growth andcarbon stocks Simulations using reference scenarios for the environmental conditions confirmed common observation in that average net...
... and ecosystem productivity Landand landscape conservation Flood protection Storm protection Protection of human habitation and infrastructure Waste treatment Pollution control Filtering of dust ... Biodiversity protection Climate regulation Air quality regulation Carbonsequestration Health protection Water regulation Water purification Soil protection Recreation Sports Tourism Spiritual and cultural ... provision and prevention of diseases • One of the specific services, related to gas regulation, is carbonsequestration It is considered, that by capturing and storing the excessive carbon dioxide...
... whether the consumer and provider lived in the same home; and tenure Limitations Land use data To begin with, in order to protect respondent confidentiality and to encourage honest responses, the ... clients’ mental functional capacity—memory, orientation, and judgment and physical functional capacity for housework, errands, meals, indoor movement, personal care, and respiration Consumers also must ... 2000; Fulton, 1999; Ryan, 1999) Crane cautions that simple calculations based onland use and travel characteristics not help much because so many other factors must be considered in the land use-transportation...
... Corporation, Federal Reserve, National Credit Union Administration, and Federal Trade Commission Able to Act Fast: With this bureau on the lookout for bad deals and schemes, consumers won’t have ... Research and member agencies the council will collect and analyze data to identify and monitor emerging risks to the economy and make this information public in periodic reports and testimony to Congress ... failure to protect consumers When no one office has consumer protections as its top priority, consumer protections don’t get the attention they need The result has been unfair and deceptive practices...
... attributed to carbon dioxide emissions With regard to carbon, forests have two main functions, carbonsequestration by growing forests andcarbon storage in the standing timber Carbonsequestration is ... protection, (ii) watershed protection (grouping water regulation and purification and soil protection), (iii) carbon storage and sequestration, and (iv) recreation and tourism In addition, values ... billion tonnes of carbon (MCPFE 2007) The situation in individual countries is proportional to the forest size and conditions As for the total carbon stored, the forests in Sweden, Germany, Finland,...
... non-timber forest products [NTFP] and water consumption); indirect use value (soil and water conservation, carbon sink, flood protection and water transportation); and non-use value (option and ... island of Sumatra The large areas of forestland given in concessions comprise dryland logged-over forests and jungle rubber; swamp forests; some smallholders’ rubber and oil-palm plantations; ... plantations are converted from natural forests, resulting in associated economic benefits below the economic costs of deforestation On the other hand, the conversion of grasslands into tree plantations...
... non-market goods and services, biodiversity protection, recreation and tourism, carbon sequestration, and watershed services (water regulation and purification, and soil protection) are especially ... protection, recreation, carbonsequestrationand watershed services are considered as the most important non-market forest goods and services at the EU level There is lack of information in terms ... of goods and services Land purchase Land lease Eco-sponsoring Donations and gifts Certification Taxes and subsidies are the most frequently used financing mechanisms in the EU Taxes and subsidies...
... comparison basis, computed as follows Translation Ranking based on Supervised Learning Ranking by Classification and Ordinal Regression Based on the extracted terms, the correct translation can ... like (1) and (5) and some ones from heuristic rules like (3) and (6) Through the establishment of feature set, the translation candidate can be optimized efficiently and the noisy information can ... whole corpus contains 19,866 person names, 22,212 location names and 7,837 organization names, from which 100 person names, 100 location names and 100 organization names are selected for testing...
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... 1988 land use averages remain constant 79 Table 3.1 Definitions and sources of first-stage hedonics variables 101 Table 3.2 Hedonic means and standard deviations 103 Table 3.3 Hedonic ... hedonic price model is formulated to estimate the marginal value of an additional unit of land of different types of open space on residential houses located in urbanand suburban areas The econometric ... variance-decomposition of explanatory variables 66 Table 2.5 Results for the traditional hedonic land price and house price models, in 1988 67 Table 2.6 Results for the traditional hedonic land...
... EMS, the standard of maternal and neonatal transfers has historically been reported to be poor, with clinicians expressing high levels of frustration at the prolonged response times and poorly ... the METRO EMS Cape Town Control Centre for every call received and processed in Data analysis Response times, transit times and mission times for all maternal and neonatal transfers were examined ... less than Perhaps one of the key questions that the study raises, and one that needs to be explored in later studies, is the question concerning dispatcher bias The dispatcher, alone, determines...
... vehicle mix Emissions Model (i.e., MOBILE) 26 Land Use-Transport Models Land Use LandUses (Activities) Prices Spatial Distribution Time Costs Demand Land, Floor Space Transportation Travel Accessibilities ... of Existing Conditions, Model Calibration Forecasts Land Use: population, employment, etc Mobility: travel patterns based onlanduses Network Planning Infrastructure plans for land use/mobility ... charge Congestion charge - not time and place specific Environmental charge – except for carbon, most emissions not proportional to consumption Distributional purposes – the right combination of...
... lead the world in carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) Energy consumption on a grand scale and the concomitant air pollution it can cause have myriad effects, from local to global, and there are a number ... has focused on directly emitted PM and SO2 emissions and concentrations, with less regulatory attention to secondary pollutants such as O3 or the sulfate, nitrate, and ammonium components of PM ... mercury control (e.g activated carbon) Carbon capture and sequestration, though not currently mandated, is being studied and could be regulated in the U.S in the future It is for this reason that...
... Production potential and ecological stability of mixed forest stands in uplands – IV A mixed spruce/pine stand in the forest type group 2S (fresh, nutrient-medium beech-oak stand) Journal of Forest ... Křtiny Lesnictví-Forestry, 44: 488–505 KANTOR P., HURT V., 2003 Production potential and ecological stability of mixed forest stands in uplands – V A mixed spruce/beech stand on a nutrient-rich ... project, i.e specification and presentation of the proposal (variants) of the target species composition in the most important management groups of stands of upland regions – in the given case...
... performed in the stands of four tree species on afforested agricultural lands, in a neighbouring forest stand on continuously forested land (mixed Scots pine – Norway spruce stand) and in a near field ... comparison with continuously forested land The effects of the agricultural use of land, i.e the fertilization and supply of nutrients, are still visible In the continuously forested land, the ... comparison, the neighbouring areas were included – mature pinespruce stand onforestlandand arable land – raps field No stable plots were established here The plots on former agricultural land...
... forest stand stand stand stand stand stand Beech Spruce forestforest stand stand Beech Spruce Beech forest Spruce forestforestforest stand stand stand stand Values of actual (in H2O) and exchangeable ... forest stand Mixed forest Mixed forest stand stand DISCUSsION Mixed Beech Spruce forestforestforest Mixed stand Beech stand Spruce stand Mixed Beech Spruce forestforestforestforestforestforest ... Mixed forestforest stand stand layer H suma 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 (t/ha) 0.7 0.8 0.9 Mixed Beech Mixed Beech Beech Mixed forestforestforestforestforestforest stand stand stand stand stand...
... especially according to the general condition of the forestand its management regime Consequently, understanding the interactions between drought, heat, and natural disturbances may be critical in predicting ... the season than usually In France and Switzerland, I typographus developed two generations at low altitude and three generations in some stands in the plains instead of respectively one or two ... content and increased concentrations of secondary metabolites (e.g [45, 79, 80]) The net effect of water stress on insect populations is often hard to grasp because effects on host physiology and...
... mineralization, n = gross nitrification, N = gross nitrification from the addition of 15 NO3 , ia = immobilisation of ammonium Means and standard deviation (n = 5) Stands Soils pre-incubated one week ... Microbial consumption = gross mineralization – net mineralization Means and standard deviation (n = 5) comparison between net and gross fluxes measured with the same procedure in different stands in ... of long-term net and short- term gross mineralization and nitrification were much higher Among the plantations, there was a strong positive relation between microbial biomass N (mg N g−1 N) and...