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Financial Comparison of Continuous-Cover Forestry, Rotational Forest Management and Permanent Carbon Forest Regimes for Redwood within New Zealand by Horacio E. Bown, Michael S. Watt

“…Continuous-cover forestry (CCF), which maintains a relatively intact forest cover through selective harvesting, has emerged over the last few decades as a…”
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Leaf Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds of the Urban Trees Platanus × acerifolia and Schinus molle in Santiago, Chile by Farías, Iván, Préndez, Margarita, Bown, Horacio E.

“…This study assessed leaf fluxes of CO2, CH4 and biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) for two common urban tree species, Platanus × acerifolia (exotic)…”
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Biomass and dominance of conservative species drive above-ground biomass productivity in a mediterranean-type forest of Chile by Ayma-Romay, Ariel Isaías, Bown, Horacio E.

“…Background Forest productivity has a pivotal role in human well-being. Vegetation quantity, niche complementarity, mass-ratio, and soil resources are…”
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Baseline of Carbon Stocks in Pinus radiata and Eucalyptus spp. Plantations of Chile by Guillermo F. Olmedo, Mario Guevara, Horacio Gilabert, Cristián R. Montes, Eduardo C. Arellano, Beatriz Barría-Knopf, Francisco Gárate, Pablo Mena-Quijada, Eduardo Acuña, Horacio E. Bown, Michael G. Ryan

“…Forest plantations have a large potential for carbon sequestration, playing an important role in the global carbon cycle. However, despite the large amount of…”
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Understory Vegetation Dynamics across a Poplar Plantation Chronosequence in Reclaimed Coastal Saline Soil by Daya Ram Poudel, Han Y. H. Chen, Mohan KC, Zhiwei Ge, Horacio E. Bown, Honghua Ruan

“…Although the understory vegetation abundance, diversity, and composition associated with stand development in natural forests have been well reported, only a…”
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Stomatal Conductance Responses of Acacia caven to Seasonal Patterns of Water Availability at Different Soil Depths in a Mediterranean Savanna by Sepulveda M., Marcelo, Bown, Horacio, Fernandez L., Bonifacio

“…Soil water availability controls plant productivity in seasonally dry ecosystems, although plant water use at different soil depths and times is, to the best…”
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Adaptation of stomatal conductance, photosynthesis and water-use efficiency at shoot and canopy scales in adjacent stands of Dacrycarpus dacrydioides and Podocarpus totara by Bown, Horacio E, Hunt, John E, Barbour, Margaret M, Rogers, Graeme N D, Whitehead, David

“…Abstract We tested an approach to estimate daily canopy net photosynthesis, A, based on estimates of transpiration, E, using measurements of sap flow and…”
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Mesophyll conductance constrains photosynthesis in three common sclerophyllous species in Central Chile by Brito, Carla E, Horacio E Bown, Juan-Pablo Fuentes, Nicolás Franck, Jorge F Perez-Quezada

“…BACKGROUND: Quillaja saponaria Mol., Cryptocarya alba Mol. Looser, and Lithraea caustica Molina Hook et Arn., are common sclerophyllous species in…”
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Monitoring biochemical limitations to photosynthesis in N and P-limited radiata pine using plant functional traits quantified from hyperspectral imagery by Watt, Michael S., Buddenbaum, Henning, Leonardo, Ellen Mae C., Estarija, Honey Jane, Bown, Horacio E., Gomez-Gallego, Mireia, Hartley, Robin J.L., Pearse, Grant D., Massam, Peter, Wright, Liam, Zarco-Tejada, Pablo J.

“…The prediction of carbon uptake by forests across fertility gradients requires accurate characterisation of how biochemical limitations to photosynthesis…”
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Indicators of ecosystem degradation along an elevational gradient in the Mediterranean Andes by Perez-Quezada, Jorge F., Lopatin, Javier, Donoso, María R., Hurtado, Cristian, Reyes, Ivan, Seguel, Oscar, Bown, Horacio E.

“…[Display omitted] •Ecological indicators of degradation were sampled in an altitudinal gradient of four mountain ecosystems.•Shrub cover and litter depth were…”
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Impact of rainfall frequency and intensity on inter- and intra-annual satellite-derived EVI vegetation productivity of an Acacia caven shrubland community in Central Chile by Sepúlveda, Marcelo, Bown, Horacio E., Miranda, Marcelo D., Fernández, Bonifacio

“…Seasonal precipitation is critical for springtime plant activity, and a direct connection may exist between the rainfall frequency and intensity with…”
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The influence of stocking levels, clone, fertilization, and weed control on surface CO2 efflux in a mid-rotation Pinus radiata D. Don plantation in Canterbury, New Zealand by KC, Mohan, Mason, Euan G., Bown, Horacio E.

“…Silvicultural practices applied in managed forest plantations may help counteract the effects of climate change by influencing soil surface CO 2 efflux ( F s…”
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Assessing water use and soil water balance of planted native tree species under strong water limitations in Northern Chile by Bown, Horacio E., Fuentes, Juan Pablo, Martínez, Amanda M.

“…Some forest plantations with native species are established in semiarid central Chile to compensate for industrial activities such as those of mining. Two of…”
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Litter Removal in a Sclerophyll Forest: Short‐ and Medium‐Term Consequences for Soil Properties by Fuentes, Juan P., Bown, Horacio E., Perez-Quezada, Jorge F., Franck, Nicolás

“…Litter extraction (LE) is a common practice in many forests of the world. This process can cause long‐term depletion of C substrates, thereby affecting…”
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A comparison between traditional ordinary least-squares regression and three methods for enforcing additivity in biomass equations using a sample of Pinus radiata trees by Mohan, K. C

“…Develops models to estimate components, subtotals and above-ground total biomass for a Pinus radiata D.Don biomass dataset using traditional linear and…”
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An air-drying model for piled logs of Eucalyptus globulus and Eucalyptus nitens in Chile by Bown, Horacio E., Lasserre, Jean-Pierre

“…Background Water accounts for around half of the total mass in living trees, and therefore large savings can be achieved if logs are dried before transporting…”
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How many measurements are needed to estimate accurate daily and annual soil respiration fluxes? Analysis using data from a temperate rainforest by Perez-Quezada, Jorge F, Brito, Carla E, Cabezas, Julián, Galleguillos, Mauricio, Fuentes, Juan P, Bown, Horacio E, Franck, Nicolás

“…Making accurate estimations of daily and annual Rs fluxes is key for understanding the carbon cycle process and projecting effects of climate change. In this…”
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The influence of nitrogen and phosphorus supply and genotype on mesophyll conductance limitations to photosynthesis in Pinus radiata by Bown, Horacio E., Watt, Michael S., Mason, Euan G., Clinton, Peter W., Whitehead, David

“…Mesophyll conductance, g m, may pose significant limitations to photosynthesis and may be differentially affected by nutrition and genotype in Pinus radiata D…”
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Influence of ammonium and nitrate supply on growth, dry matter partitioning, N uptake and photosynthetic capacity of Pinus radiata seedlings by Bown, Horacio E, Watt, Michael S, Clinton, Peter W, Mason, Euan G

“…Growth and physiological responses of Pinus radiata D. Don seedlings to a combination of N supply regimes (low N = 1.78 mol m⁻³, high N = 7.14 mol m⁻³) and…”
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Relating nutritional and physiological characteristics to growth of Pinus radiata clones planted on a range of sites in New Zealand by Hawkins, Barbara J, Xue, Jianming, Bown, Horacio E, Clinton, Peter W

“…Six clones of radiata pine with known differences in growth rate were examined for clonal nutritional characteristics and for physiological determinants of…”
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