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Influence of species interactions and climate on tree mortality in mixed stands of Pinus sylvestris, Betula spp., and Picea abiesNARA Subscribed
Tree mortality is a complex process associated with endogenous factors such as tree size, species composition or stand density, which may interact with each other and/or with exogenous factors such as climate. We studied the influence of these factors on background tree mortality in Scots pine, Norway spruce, and downy and silver birch mixed forests located in Central and Northern European continental (Poland) and boreal (NE P...
Metastasis-directed stereotactic radiotherapy in patients with breast cancer: results of an international multicenter cohort studyNARA Subscribed
Metastasis-directed therapy (MDT) for oligometastatic breast cancer (≤ 5 metastases) has shown little effect in specific scenarios of randomized trials. Therefore, we aimed to assess outcomes after metastasis-directed stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) in various clinical scenarios. We conducted an international retrospective cohort study in thirteen centers including breast cancer patients receiving SRT to any metastatic site. O...
Purpose of Review Forests support most global terrestrial biodiversity and contribute to the livelihood of billions of people, but these and other benefits are in jeopardy due to global change. This leads to questions, such as how to address the challenges of global change in forest management, given the lack of knowledge and deep uncertainty about future developments. In addition, many of the impediments to implement adaptati...
Segmentation of conifer tree crowns from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds in mixed stands of Scots pine and Norway spruceNARA Subscribed
Terrestrial laser scanning of conifer tree crowns is challenged by occlusion problems causing sparse point clouds for many trees. Automatic segmentation of conifer tree crowns from sparse point clouds is a task that has only recently been addressed and not solved in a way that all trees can be segmented automatically without assignment errors. We developed a new segmentation algorithm that is based on region growing from seeds...
Rationale Benzodiazepines have been extensively investigated in experimental settings especially after single administration, which mostly revealed effects on unpredictable threat (U-threat) rather than predictable threat (P-threat). Given the need for pharmacological alternatives with a preferable side-effect profile and to better represent clinical conditions, research should cover also other anxiolytics and longer applicati...
Soil fauna drives vertical redistribution of soil organic carbon in a long‐term irrigated dry pine forestNARA Subscribed
Summer droughts strongly affect soil organic carbon (SOC) cycling, but net effects on SOC storage are unclear as drought affects both C inputs and outputs from soils. Here, we explored the overlooked role of soil fauna on SOC storage in forests, hypothesizing that soil faunal activity is particularly drought‐sensitive, thereby reducing litter incorporation into the mineral soil and, eventually, long‐term SOC storage. In a drou...
Simulating urban climate at sub‐kilometre scale for representing the intra‐urban variability of Zurich, SwitzerlandNARA Subscribed
In the face of an increasing number of urban climate modelling studies performed at sub‐kilometre resolution, systematic investigations of the performance of high‐resolution urban climate simulations and their dependency on spatial resolution are still very sparse. This study investigates the impact of the scale of representation of the urban area on the urban climate simulation with a multi‐layer urban canopy model (UCM) inte...
The impact of climate change on the soil microbiome potentially alters the biogeochemical cycle of terrestrial ecosystems. In semi‐arid environments, water availability is a major constraint on biogeochemical cycles due to the combination of high summer temperatures and low rainfall. Here, we explored how 10 years of irrigation of a water‐limited pine forest in the central European Alps altered the soil microbiome and associat...
EPMA-World Congress 2015NARA Subscribed
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