The following cover classes were differentiated: tropical forest, secondary forest, agriculture, urban, and water polls, which were validated in the fields.
Monocots had the lowest index in evergreen (1%) and the greast index in deciduous (4%), with intermediate values for mixed forests, while lichens did not differentiated among forest types (percentage index = 0.5% in average).
Species assemblages at Dongling Mountain were strongly differentiated according to forest type; a pattern not found at Changbaishan.
Contrary to expectations, herb richness and diversity were lower in lakeside forests and the understory community there could not be differentiated from that of upland forests.
We recognized four forest species assemblages differentiated by composition and structure: coastal forest, dominated by widely distributed species, and three forest types with differences related more to disturbance history (stages of secondary succession following clearing or selective logging) than to environmental gradients (elevation, slope, rockiness).
The interior and exterior edges are in fact differentiated by the size of neighboring non-forest or forest.
First, it outlines Holocene settlement, land use and forest histories, as a differentiated model against which to apply specific types of investigation, and in conjunction with other archaeological sciences.
However, since most forest tree populations are weakly differentiated, the identification of genetic markers to differentiate among spatially isolated populations is often difficult and time consuming.
In the field, four different habitats could be easily differentiated and designated as hedges, riparian forests, streamside hedges and screes, according to Delarze et al. [37].
The combination of VIs and TEXs improve the estimation of VFC if forest types are not previously differentiated.
