In situ quantification of experimental ice accretion on tree crowns using terrestrial laser scanning.

In the eastern hardwood forests of North America ice storms are an important disturbance event. Ice storms strongly influence community dynamics as well as urban infrastructure via catastrophic branch failure; further, the severity and frequency of ice storms are likely to increase with climate chan...

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Main Authors: Charles A Nock, David Greene, Sylvain Delagrange, Matt Follett, Richard Fournier, Christian Messier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3669131?pdf=render