The more sophisticated Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index of Van Wagner (1987) expressly considers how weather conditions affect the moisture content of different fire fuel layers.
Currently, the community combines the economic foundation of a subsistence economy with a sophisticated array of forest-based enterprises, now almost entirely oriented towards conservation and non-timber forest products (NTFPs).
Sophisticated approaches to mapping forest C stocks may provide robust estimates of stocks [11], but lack the flexibility to rapidly incorporate annual monitoring information.
This indicates a potential to increase climate benefits through the changes in displacement factor driven by promoting and sophisticated use of wood products harvested from the domestic managed forests.
The study is "a very important step" toward a more sophisticated understanding of how forests respond to environmental stress, says David Schimel, an ecoclimatologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who was not involved in the work.
The rangers told him that the poachers were using sophisticated automatic weapons, whereas the forest guards had old rifles.
In the mountains of the High Atlas, local populations have developed highly sophisticated practices in order to manage forest resources for combined fodder and timber production (Genin and Simenel 2011).
Brazil has sophisticated satellite technology, able to pinpoint forest fires and tree-cutting and to predict the weather.
Forest police monitoring the sophisticated farms camped out in the vast Rocky mountain wilderness believe most of their production is destined for other US cities such as Chicago, where it is still illegal, rather than local shops.
(2011) used the BIOME-BGC model (Thornton, 1998) as an input into Fire-BGCv2, a highly sophisticated research tool linking biogeochemical modelling, forest succession models and fire spread behaviour.
