Quantitative Analysis of Factors Influencing Damage to Old-Growth Hemiboreal Stands as a Result of a Catastrophic Windthrow, Based on Remote Sensing and Merged Data

Ivanova N.V. Shashkov M.P. Lebedev A.V. Shanin V.N.
August 2024 Pleiades Publishing

Russian Journal of Ecology
2024 #55 Issue 4 277 - 284 pp.

Abstract: The consequences of a catastrophic windthrow in a old-growth hemiboreal stands of the Kologrivsky Forest Reserve were investigated. The degree of damage to tree stands was assessed by interpretation of the Sentinel-2 satellite images. Data from the GBIF portal, SRTM global terrain height models, and tree stand heights were used for the quantitative analysis of factors affecting the presence of wind damage. It was found that tree stands on an area of 277.9 hectares (40.5% of the entire massif) were damaged by windthrow. The results of the analysis of height models and regression models showed that spruce stands are more vulnerable to wind damage, as well as stands of greater height or those growing at higher elevation on the ground.

CHM , GBIF , Kologrivsky Forest Reserve , NDWA-8a , Sentinel-2 , SRTM

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Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology, Branch of Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, 142290, Russian Federation
Karaganda Buketov University, Karaganda, 100028, Kazakhstan
Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Moscow, 127434, Russian Federation
Kologrivsky Forest Nature Reserve, Kologriv, 157440, Russian Federation
Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science, Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, 142290, Russian Federation

Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology
Karaganda Buketov University
Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy
Kologrivsky Forest Nature Reserve
Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science

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