Paletto, A., & Tosi, V. (2009).
European Journal of Forest Research, 128(3), 265-272.
The study compares the canopy closures and canopy covers. It also investigates new technologies for calculating the canopy covers. The canopy cover is more likely linked to forest planning and management surveys so as to forest inventories while the canopy closure seems to have a wide area of applicability in ecologically oriented forest research, linked with canopy architecture and light regimes or solar radiation. The study uses various instruments to analyse this data. It further leaves hints for the future scope of research to describe the structure of plant canopies, to establish connections between canopy and wildlife species richness or to estimate solar radiation.
Tags: forest, urban trees, canopy cover
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