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Airborne Laser Scanning Cartography of On-Site Carbon Stocks as a Basis for the Silviculture of Pinus Halepensis Plantations
Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Duque Lazo, Joaquín; Rodríguez-Vallejo, Carlos; Varo-Martínez, Mª Ángeles; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo (MDPI, 2018)Forest managers are interested in forest-monitoring strategies using low density Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS). However, little research has used ALS to estimate soil organic carbon (SOC) as a criterion for operational ... -
Aridity gradients shape intraspecific variability of morphological traits in native Ceratonia siliqua L. of Morocco
Kassout, Jalal; Hmimsa, Younes; El Fatehi, Salama; Kadaoui, Khalil; Houssni, Mhammad; Soufian, Chakkour; Sahli, Abdelouahab; El Chami, Mohamad Ali; Ariza-Mateos, David; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Ater, Mohamed (MDPI, 2023)The carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua L.) is a significant fruit tree in the Mediterranean region with cultural, biological, and ecological importance. Despite its importance, intraspecific trait variability (ITV) in carob ... -
Assessment of the Carbon Stock in Pine Plantations in Southern Spain through ALS Data and K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm Based Models
Navarrete-Poyatos, Miguel A.; Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Lara-Gómez, Miguel; Duque Lazo, Joaquín; Varo, M.A.; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo (MDPI, 2019)Accurate estimation of forest biomass to enable the mapping of forest C stocks over large areas is of considerable interest nowadays. Airborne laser scanning (ALS) systems bring a new perspective to forest inventories and ... -
Carbon Sequestration in Carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) Plantations under the EU Afforestation Program in Southern Spain Using Low-Density Aerial Laser Scanning (ALS) Data
Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Quinto, Luis; Lara-Gómez, Miguel; Pérez Romero, Javier; Recio, José Manuel; Álvarez-Romero, Marta; Cachinero-Vivar, Antonio M.; Hernández-Navarro, Salvador; Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M. (MDPI, 2022)Climate change is one of the environmental issues of global dominance and public opinion, becoming the greatest environmental challenge and of interest to researchers. In this context, planting trees on marginal agricultural ... -
Comparison of Errors Produced by ABA and ITC Methods for the Estimation of Forest Inventory Attributes at Stand and Tree Level in Pinus radiata Plantations in Chile
Lara-Gómez, Miguel; Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Clavero Rumbao, Inmaculada; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo (MDPI, 2023)Airborne laser scanning (ALS) technology is fully implemented in forest resource assessment processes, providing highly accurate and spatially continuous results throughout the area of interest, thus reducing inventory ... -
Competition modulates the response of growth to climate in pure and mixed Abies pinsapo subsp. maroccana forests in northern Morocco
Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Delgado Manzanedo, Rubén; Rodríguez-Vallejo, Carlos; Gazol, Antonio; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Camarero, J. Julio (Elsevier, 2020)The effects of changes in structure and composition on the dynamics and responses of secondary forests to climate change are understudied. Secondary forests of Abies pinsapo var. maroccana are often a mosaic of patches of ... -
Cumulative Drought Stress Leads to a Loss of Growth Resilience and Explains Higher Mortality in Planted than in Naturally Regenerated Pinus pinaster Stands
Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Rodríguez, Carlos; Silveiro, Emidio; Hortal, Antonio; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Duque Lazo, Joaquín; Camarero, J. Julio (MDPI, 2018)The assessment of the long-term impacts of drought on tree growth decline using tree-ring analyses may be used to test if plantations are more vulnerable to warming after successive droughts, leading to a “cumulative ... -
Deforestation and Biomass Production in Miombo Forest in Huambo (Angola): A Balance between Local and Global Needs
Miapia, Luis M.; Ariza-Mateos, David; Lacerda-Quartín, Virgínia; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo (MDPI, 2021)Miombo is one of the most widely distributed ecosystems in Angola, with a great social and environmental value. Thus, the rural population uses the biomass as fuel and miombo provides important ecosystem services, such as ... -
Growth and physiological sapling responses of eleven Quercus ilex ecotypes under identical environmental conditions
Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Ruiz Gómez, Francisco José; Cabrera-Puerto, Roberto J.; Sánchez-Cuesta, Rafael; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Quero, José L. (Elsevier, 2018)Studies with holm oak indicate that genetic variation may result in substantial differences in drought tolerance among its ecotypes. However, few trials have studied this variation under common environmental conditions. ... -
Improvement of Remote Sensing-Based Assessment of Defoliation of Pinus spp. Caused by Thaumetopoea pityocampa Denis and Schiffermüller and Related Environmental Drivers in Southeastern Spain
Pérez Romero, Javier; Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Acosta, Cristina; Mesas Carrascosa, Francisco Javier (MDPI, 2019)This study used Landsat temporal series to describe defoliation levels due to the Pine Processionary Moth (PPM) in Pinus forests of southeastern Andalusia (Spain), utilizing Google Earth Engine. A combination of remotely ... -
Is thinning an alternative when trees could die in response to drought? The case of planted Pinus nigra and P. Sylvestris stands in southern Spain
Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Sánchez-Salguero, Raúl; Rodríguez, Carlos; Duque Lazo, Joaquín; Moreno-Rojas, José Manuel; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Camarero, J. Julio (Elsevier, 2019)Previous research has provided insights into the potential response of growth and water use efficiency to thinning in Mediterranean forests, but little is known about the potential benefits of silviculture for plantations ... -
Land Suitability for Biological Wastewater Treatment in Lebanon and the Litani River Basin Using Fuzzy Logic and Analytical Hierarchy Process
Kallas, Georgio; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Kattar, Salim (MDPI, 2022)Biological wastewater treatment (BWWT) has been demonstrated to be a suitable procedure to degrade organic pollutants by utilizing natural processes. This paper presents a validated model to map land suitability for BWWT ... -
Linkages between Climate, Radial Growth and Defoliation in Abies pinsapo Forests from Southern Spain
Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Gazol, Antonio; Rodríguez-Vallejo, Carlos; Delgado Manzanedo, Rubén; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Camarero, J. Julio (MDPI, 2020)Systematic forest networks of health monitoring have been established to follow changes in tree vigor and mortality. These networks often lack long-term growth data, but they could be complemented with tree ring data, since ... -
Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Pine Forests under Different Silvicultural and Climatic Regimes in Spain
Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Ruiz Gómez, Francisco José; Camarero, J. Julio; Castillo, Víctor; Barberá, Gonzalo G.; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Navarro, Francisco B.; Blanco, Juan A.; Imbert, Juan B.; Cachinero-Vivar, Antonio M.; Molina, Antonio J.; Campo, Antonio D. del (MDPI, 2022)Proactive silviculture treatments (e.g., thinning) may increase C sequestration contributing to climate change mitigation, although, there are still questions about this effect in Mediterranean pine forests. The aim of ... -
Modeling Major Rural Land-Use Changes Using the GIS-Based Cellular Automata Metronamica Model: The Case of Andalusia (Southern Spain)
Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M.; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Clavero Rumbao, Inmaculada; Lara, Miguel Ángel; Bonet-García, Francisco J.; Mesas Carrascosa, Francisco Javier (MDPI, 2020)The effective and efficient planning of rural land-use changes and their impact on the environment is critical for land-use managers. Many land-use growth models have been proposed for forecasting growth patterns in the ... -
Thinning Effect of C Sequestration along an Elevation Gradient of Mediterranean Pinus spp. Plantations
Cachinero-Vivar, Antonio M.; Palacios Rodríguez, Guillermo; Lara-Gómez, Miguel; Navarro Cerrillo, Rafael M. (MDPI, 2021)Forests are key elements in mitigating the effects of climate change due to the fact of their carbon sequestration capacity. Forest management can be oriented to optimise the carbon sequestration capacity of forest stands, ...