Search Results - "Peters, Richard"
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Particle Swarm Optimization: A Survey of Historical and Recent Developments with Hybridization Perspectives
Published in Machine learning and knowledge extraction (01-12-2019)“…Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a metaheuristic global optimization paradigm that has gained prominence in the last two decades due to its ease of…”
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Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-06-2023)“…Drought legacies in radial tree growth are an important feature of variability in biomass accumulation and are widely used to characterize forest resilience to…”
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Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees
Published in Ecology letters (01-02-2022)“…Radial stem growth dynamics at seasonal resolution are essential to understand how forests respond to climate change. We studied daily radial growth of 160…”
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Why trees grow at night
Published in The New phytologist (01-09-2021)“…Summary The timing of diel stem growth of mature forest trees is still largely unknown, as empirical data with high temporal resolution have not been available…”
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Temperature and water potential co-limit stem cambial activity along a steep elevational gradient
Published in The New phytologist (01-06-2020)“…• Efforts to develop mechanistic tree growth models are hindered by the uncertainty of whether and when tree growth responses to environmental factors are…”
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Detecting long‐term growth trends using tree rings: a critical evaluation of methods
Published in Global change biology (01-05-2015)“…Tree‐ring analysis is often used to assess long‐term trends in tree growth. A variety of growth‐trend detection methods (GDMs) exist to disentangle age/size…”
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Addressing the need for interactive, efficient, and reproducible data processing in ecology with the datacleanr R package
Published in PloS one (12-05-2022)“…Ecological research, just as all Earth System Sciences, is becoming increasingly data-rich. Tools for processing of "big data" are continuously developed to…”
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Properties of an attention-grabbing motion signal: a comparison of tail and body movements in a lizard
Published in Journal of Comparative Physiology (01-05-2022)“…Animals signals must be detected by receiver sensory systems, and overcome a variety of local ecological factors that could otherwise affect their transmission…”
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Turgor – a limiting factor for radial growth in mature conifers along an elevational gradient
Published in The New phytologist (01-01-2021)“…Summary A valid representation of intra‐annual wood formation processes in global vegetation models is vital for assessing climate change impacts on the forest…”
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Daytime stomatal regulation in mature temperate trees prioritizes stem rehydration at night
Published in The New phytologist (01-07-2023)“…Summary Trees remain sufficiently hydrated during drought by closing stomata and reducing canopy conductance (Gc) in response to variations in atmospheric…”
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Modeling Ambitions Outpace Observations of Forest Carbon Allocation
Published in Trends in plant science (01-03-2021)“…There have been vociferous calls for ‘tree-centered’ vegetation models to refine predictions of forest carbon (C) cycling. Unfortunately, our global survey at…”
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Processing and Extraction of Seasonal Tree Physiological Parameters from Stem Radius Time Series
Published in Forests (01-06-2021)“…Radial stem size changes, measured with automated dendrometers at intra-daily resolution, offer great potential to link environmental conditions with tree…”
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Linking variability of tree water use and growth with species resilience to environmental changes
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-09-2020)“…Tree growth is an indicator of tree vitality and its temporal variability is linked to species resilience to environmental changes. Second‐order statistics…”
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Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (25-08-2020)“…Wood formation consumes around 15% of the anthropogenic CO₂ emissions per year and plays a critical role in long-term sequestration of carbon on Earth…”
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The swaying behavior of Extatosoma tiaratum : motion camouflage in a stick insect?
Published in Behavioral ecology (2016)“…Lay Summary Stationary animals that resemble the background are overlooked by predators-this might also be true if they move like the background. We show that…”
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Quantification of uncertainties in conifer sap flow measured with the thermal dissipation method
Published in The New phytologist (01-09-2018)“…Trees play a key role in the global hydrological cycle and measurements performed with the thermal dissipation method (TDM) have been crucial in providing…”
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Drought alters aboveground biomass production efficiency: Insights from two European beech forests
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-04-2024)“…The fraction of photosynthetically assimilated carbon that trees allocate to long-lasting woody biomass pools (biomass production efficiency – BPE), is a key…”
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IMU-based gait analysis in lower limb prosthesis users: Comparison of step demarcation algorithms
Published in Gait & posture (01-07-2018)“…•Tested 33 lower-limb prosthetic users (LLPUs): 17 transtibial, 16 transfemoral.•Compared 3 step demarcation algorithms based on IMU tracking of lumbopelvic…”
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Couplings in cell differentiation kinetics mitigate air temperature influence on conifer wood anatomy
Published in Plant, cell and environment (01-04-2019)“…Conifer trees possess a typical anatomical tree‐ring structure characterized by a transition from large and thin‐walled earlywood tracheids to narrow and…”
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The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests
Published in Nature communications (10-01-2022)“…Heatwaves exert disproportionately strong and sometimes irreversible impacts on forest ecosystems. These impacts remain poorly understood at the tree and…”
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