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Taller and slenderer trees in Swedish forests according to data from the National Forest Inventory / Alex Appiah Mensah in Forest ecology and management, vol 527 n° 1 (1 January 2023)  

Public [article]  inForest ecology and management > vol 527 n° 1 (1 January 2023) . - n° 120605 Titre : Taller and slenderer trees in Swedish forests according to data from the National Forest Inventory Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Alex Appiah Mensah, Auteur ; Hans Petersson, Auteur ; Jonas Dahlgren, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2023 Article en page(s) : n° 120605 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] azote [Termes IGN] changement climatique [Termes IGN] diamètre à hauteur de poitrine [Termes IGN] forêt boréale [Termes IGN] gestion forestière [Termes IGN] hauteur des arbres [Termes IGN] inventaire forestier étranger (données) [Termes IGN] Picea abies [Termes IGN] Pinus sylvestris [Termes IGN] Suède [Termes IGN] surface terrière [Vedettes matières IGN] Inventaire forestier Résumé : (auteur) Changes over time in annual basal area growth and mean height for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) over the period, 1983–2020 were studied using sample tree data from temporary plots recorded in the Swedish National Forest Inventory. The annual basal area growth was derived from the last measured full ring on increment cores. Using 20 to 60-year-old dominant trees, the mean height and annual basal area growth were examined as functions of tree, stand and site conditions, and trends were assessed mainly using residual analyses over time. A significant increase in mean height at a given age was found for both species, but the annual basal area growth level remained stable over the 38-year period. Currently, at a given age of 50 annual rings at breast height, the mean heights of pines and spruces increased on average by 10.1% (i.e. ∼2 m), compared to 50 year-old pines and spruces in the 1980s, and the increase was similar in the different regions. The results suggest that trees have become taller and slenderer in Swedish forests. Increasing tree height over time at a given age in Northern Europe has been documented in several reports and many causes have been suggested, such as changed forest management, increasing temperatures and nitrogen deposition. We suggest that elevated CO2 in the air and improved water-use efficiency for the trees might also be strong drivers. Numéro de notice : A2023-005 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120605 Date de publication en ligne : 05/11/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120605 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=102008 [article]

Identification and spatial extent of understory plant species requiring vegetation control to ensure tree regeneration in French forests / Noé Dumas in Annals of Forest Science, vol 79 n° 1 (2022)  

Public [article]  inAnnals of Forest Science > vol 79 n° 1 (2022) . - n° 41 Titre : Identification and spatial extent of understory plant species requiring vegetation control to ensure tree regeneration in French forests Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Noé Dumas, Auteur ; Jean-Luc Dupouey, Auteur ; Jean-Claude Gégout, Auteur ; Vincent Boulanger, Auteur ; Jean-Daniel Bontemps , Auteur ; François Morneau , Auteur ; Marine Dalmasso , Auteur ; Catherine Collet, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Projets : 1-Pas de projet / Article en page(s) : n° 41 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] contrôle de la végétation [Termes IGN] coopérative forestière [Termes IGN] distribution spatiale [Termes IGN] enquête [Termes IGN] France (végétation) [Termes IGN] gestion forestière durable [Termes IGN] inventaire forestier national (données France) [Termes IGN] Molinia caerulea [Termes IGN] propriétaire forestier [Termes IGN] Pteridium aquilinum [Termes IGN] régénération (sylviculture) [Termes IGN] Rubus fruticosus [Termes IGN] sous-bois [Vedettes matières IGN] Inventaire forestier Résumé : (auteur) Key message: Fifteen species are most susceptible to require vegetation control during tree regeneration in the range of our study. Among these 15 species, Rubus fruticosus, Pteridium aquilinum, and Molinia caerulea cover each more than 300,000 ha of open-canopy forests. Context: Vegetation control, i.e., the reduction of competitive species cover, is often required to promote tree seedling establishment during the forest regeneration stage. The necessity to control understory vegetation largely depends on the species to be controlled. In order to plan forest renewal operations, it is critical to identify which species require vegetation control during the regeneration stage and to quantify the forest area affected by these species. Aims: We aimed at identifying the main species requiring vegetation control and at estimating the forest area they cover at the national level. Methods: Using National Forest Inventory data, we created four indicators based on two levels of plant cover, cross-referenced with two levels of canopy opening, and compared them to the outcome of a survey of forest manager practices. Results: The best indicator was the one that represented the proportion of forests with open canopy where the species was present with a large cover in the understory. In non-Mediterranean France, according to the indicator, a total of 15 species were found to frequently require vegetation control during the tree regeneration stage. Pteridium aquilinum, Molinia caerulea, and Rubus fruticosus were the main species, and each covered more than 300,000 ha of forest with open canopies, representing about 13% of the total forest area with open canopies outside of the Mediterranean area. Conclusions: Forests covered by species requiring vegetation control according to forest managers represent a large share of the forest area undergoing regeneration. This study provides the first list of species that require vegetation control based on a methodological protocol that makes it possible to calculate the area associated with each species. Numéro de notice : A2022-730 Affiliation des auteurs : LIF+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : FORET Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1186/s13595-022-01160-w Date de publication en ligne : 22/09/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-022-01160-w Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101681 [article]

An estimation method to reduce complete and partial nonresponse bias in forest inventory / James A. Westfall in European Journal of Forest Research, vol 141 n° 5 (October 2022)  

Public [article]  inEuropean Journal of Forest Research > vol 141 n° 5 (October 2022) . - pp 901 - 907 Titre : An estimation method to reduce complete and partial nonresponse bias in forest inventory Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : James A. Westfall, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : pp 901 - 907 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] enquête [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] estimateur [Termes IGN] estimation statistique [Termes IGN] Etats-Unis [Termes IGN] incertitude des données [Termes IGN] inventaire forestier étranger (données) [Termes IGN] méthode de Monte-Carlo [Termes IGN] modèle de simulation [Termes IGN] placette d'échantillonnage [Termes IGN] post-stratification de données [Termes IGN] propriété foncière [Vedettes matières IGN] Inventaire forestier Résumé : (auteur) Survey practitioners commonly encounter various types of nonresponse and strive to implement methods that mitigate any resulting bias when reporting results. In national forest inventories (NFI), complete or partial nonresponse usually results from hazardous conditions or lack of plot access permission. While many factors may be related to nonresponse, the two primary factors in the NFI of the USA are public/private land ownership and office/field plot status. To ameliorate potential nonresponse bias, these factors should be accounted for in the estimation process. An estimation method is presented where response homogeneity groups (RHGs) account for differential nonresponse rates between forest/nonforest plots. In a post-stratified estimation context, ratio-to-size estimators are used in RHGs within post-strata to avoid potential bias in variance estimates arising from partial plot nonresponse. Combining RHGs within post-strata requires a complex variance estimator that includes four sources of uncertainty. Testing of the estimation method on a synthetic population showed the approach is essentially unbiased. Application to NFI data from 10 states in the USA consistently showed the RHG method produced state-level estimates of forestland area that were 0.1%–3.6% larger than the current post-stratified estimation procedure. It is suggested that these differences are indicative of the nonresponse bias present when plots having differential nonresponse rates are not accounted for. Numéro de notice : A2022-759 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/MATHEMATIQUE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10342-022-01480-6 Date de publication en ligne : 14/07/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-022-01480-6 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101770 [article]

Comparison of methods for the automatic classification of forest habitat types in the Southern Alps : Application to ecological data from the French national forest inventory / Charlotte Labit in Biodiversity & Conservation, vol 31 n° inconnu (2022)  

Public [article]  inBiodiversity & Conservation > vol 31 n° inconnu (2022) . - n° Titre : Comparison of methods for the automatic classification of forest habitat types in the Southern Alps : Application to ecological data from the French national forest inventory Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Charlotte Labit, Auteur ; Ingrid Bonhême , Auteur ; Sébastien Delhaye, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] Alpes-de-haute-provence (04) [Termes IGN] Alpes-maritimes (06) [Termes IGN] analyse comparative [Termes IGN] classification par forêts d'arbres décisionnels [Termes IGN] Drôme (26) [Termes IGN] habitat (nature) [Termes IGN] habitat forestier [Termes IGN] incertitude des données [Termes IGN] inventaire forestier national (données France) [Termes IGN] surveillance écologique [Vedettes matières IGN] Inventaire forestier Mots-clés libres : algorithm inspired by the habitat identification key used in the field Résumé : (auteur) The monitoring of habitats at plant association level, has been developed by the French-National Forest Inventory (NFI) progressively since 2011, whereas ecological and floristic data exist since the mid-1980s. The NFI habitat monitoring is the French tool of surveillance of forest habitats decreed by Natura 2000 Directive (article 11). Determination of plant association in NFI plots concerns all the habitats, whether they are of community interest or not. The objective of this study is to compare different methods of automatic classification of floristic and ecological surveys into forest habitat groups. Indeed, enriching the old surveys, which contain only ecological, floristic and trees data, with information on habitats would increase the accuracy of the calculated statistical results on habitats. The uncertainty of the attribution of a habitat outside the field (ex-situ) by experts was quantified by comparison with the determination in the field (in situ). This result was used as a benchmark to compare to the error rates obtained by two methods of automatic classification: an algorithm inspired by the habitat identification key used in the field and Random forest, a learning classification method. The classification performance was evaluated for three levels of habitat groupings. The results showed that the lower the level of clustering, the higher the error rate. Depending on the classification method used and the level of aggregation, the error rates varied between 5 and 15%. In all cases, the error rates were below the estimated uncertainty of the expert attribution of ex-situ habitat. Numéro de notice : A2022-696 Affiliation des auteurs : IGN+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : FORET/MATHEMATIQUE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10531-022-02487-6 Date de publication en ligne : 25/10/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-022-02487-6 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101980 [article]

Multisource forest inventories: A model-based approach using k-NN to reconcile forest attributes statistics and map products / Ankit Sagar in ISPRS Journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, vol 192 (October 2022)  

Public [article]  inISPRS Journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing > vol 192 (October 2022) . - pp 175 - 188 Titre : Multisource forest inventories: A model-based approach using k-NN to reconcile forest attributes statistics and map products Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Ankit Sagar , Auteur ; Cédric Vega , Auteur ; Olivier Bouriaud , Auteur ; Christian Piedallu, Auteur ; Jean-Pierre Renaud, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Projets : LUE / Université de Lorraine, ARBRE / AgroParisTech, DEEPSURF / Pironon, Jacques Article en page(s) : pp 175 - 188 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] classification barycentrique [Termes IGN] données allométriques [Termes IGN] données lidar [Termes IGN] image Landsat-8 [Termes IGN] inventaire forestier national (données France) [Vedettes matières IGN] Inventaire forestier Résumé : (auteur) Forest map products are widely used and have taken benefit from progresses in the multisource forest inventory approaches, which are meant to improve the precision of forest inventory estimates at high spatial resolution. However, estimating errors of pixel-wise predictions remains difficult, and reconciling statistical outcomes with map products is still an open and important question. We address this problem using an original approach relying on a model-based inference framework and k-nearest neighbours (k-NN) models to produce pixel-wise estimations and related quality assessment. Our approach takes advantage of the resampling properties of a model-based estimator and combines it with geometrical convex-hull models to measure respectively the precision and accuracy of pixel predictions. A measure of pixel reliability was obtained by combining precision and accuracy. The study was carried out over a 7,694 km2 area dominated by structurally complex broadleaved forests in centre of France. The targeted forest attributes were growing stock volume, basal area and growing stock volume increment. A total of 819 national forest inventory plots were combined with auxiliary data extracted from a forest map, Landsat 8 images, and 3D point clouds from both airborne laser scanning and digital aerial photogrammetry. k-NN models were built independently for both 3D data sources. Both selected models included 5 auxiliary variables, and were generated using 5 neighbours, and most similar neighbours distance measure. The models showed relative root mean square error ranging from 35.7% (basal area, digital aerial photogrammetry) in calibration to 63.4% (growing stock volume increment, airborne laser scanning) in the validation set. At pixel level, we found that a minimum of 86.4% of the predictions were of high precision as their bootstrapped coefficient of variation fall below calibration’s relative root mean square error. The amount of extrapolation varied from 4.3% (digital aerial photogrammetry) to 6.3% (airborne laser scanning). A relationship was found between extrapolation and k-NN distance, opening new opportunities to correct extrapolation errors. At the population level, airborne laser scanning and digital aerial photogrammetry performed similarly, offering the possibility to use digital aerial photogrammetry for monitoring purposes. The proposed method provided consistent estimates of forest attributes and maps, and also provided spatially explicit information about pixel predictions in terms of precision, accuracy and reliability. The method therefore produced high resolution outputs, significant for either decision making or forest management purposes. Numéro de notice : A2022-629 Affiliation des auteurs : LIF+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : FORET Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.08.016 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.08.016 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101495 [article]

Using multi-temporal tree inventory data in eucalypt forestry to benchmark global high-resolution canopy height models. A showcase in Mato Grosso, Brazil / Adrián Pascual in Ecological Informatics, vol 70 (September 2022)  

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Modeling and propagating inventory-based sampling uncertainty in the large-scale forest demographic model “MARGOT” / Timothée Audinot in Natural Resource Modelling, vol 35 n° 3 (August 2022)  

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Uncertainty of biomass stocks in Spanish forests: a comprehensive comparison of allometric equations / Aitor Ameztegui in European Journal of Forest Research, vol 141 n° 3 (June 2022)  

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Potential of Bayesian formalism for the fusion and assimilation of sequential forestry data in time and space / Cheikh Mohamedou in Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vol 52 n° 4 (April 2022)  

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Travaux actuels d'inventaire des forêts à forte naturalité à l'échelle nationale et européenne / Fabienne Benest in Revue forestière française, vol 73 n° 2 - 3 ([30/03/2022])  

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Mapping forest site quality at national level / Ana Aguirre in Forest ecology and management, vol 508 (15 March 2022)  

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Two-phase forest inventory using very-high-resolution laser scanning / Henrik J. Persson in Remote sensing of environment, vol 271 (March- 2 2022)  

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Competition and climate influence in the basal area increment models for Mediterranean mixed forests / Diego Rodríguez de Prado in Forest ecology and management, vol 506 (15 February 2022)  

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Evaluation of mapped-plot variance estimators across a range of partial nonresponse in a post-stratified national forest inventory / James A. Westfall in Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vol 52 n° 2 (February 2022)  

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Growing stock monitoring by European National Forest Inventories: Historical origins, current methods and harmonisation / Thomas Gschwantner in Forest ecology and management, vol 505 (1 February 2022)  

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