Root biomass contributes a significant proportion of total biomass and carbon storage in forest ecosystems. Deadwood (including dead roots) is an essential component of the ecosystem carbon (C) balance. Currently there are some shortcomings in the reporting of deadwood regarding the completeness and the level of detail. So far it is not possible to report about dead coarse roots since there is no existing data. Therefore, we a...

The fast and accurate provision of within-season data of green area index ( GAI ) and total N uptake ( total N ) is the basis for crop modeling and precision agriculture. However, due to rapid advancements in multispectral sensors and the high sampling effort, there is currently no existing reference work for the calibration of one UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)-based multispectral sensor to GAI and total N for silage maize, wi...

Coarse woody debris (CWD) is a major component of the ecosystem carbon (C) balance. The estimation of C storage in CWD is an important element of the German greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting of forests, which is mainly based on the German National Forest Inventory. The deadwood C stock is calculated based on deadwood volume and, according to deadwood density (DD) and carbon concentration (CC) for each decay class (DC). Yet, the d...

Genetic variations affecting the course of depressive symptoms in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) have not yet been well studied. Therefore, we set out to investigate whether distinct haplotypes of the two insertion/deletion polymorphisms in the serotonin-transporter-linked polymorphic region ( 5-HTTLPR ) and the angiotensin I-converting enzyme ( ACE ) gene located on chromosome 17 can be identified as risk factors...