Description:
Standing dead trees (snags) are crucial habitats for fauna in mature and diverse forests along the Interior Douglas-fir Zone of British Columbia. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether snag density and snag metrics differ between three categories of at-risk and irreplaceable Old Growth Priority Deferral Areas (ancient, big-treed and remnant) and their neighbouring areas with no deferral status. Using airborne LiDAR data, we detect snags using 1) area-based forest metrics paired with random forest modelling, and 2) an individual snag detection algorithm.
Dépôt source:
UBC Dataverse
Series:
UBC Faculty of Forestry // Master of Geomatics for Environmental Management
Accès:
Public
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/LYPIWG
Date de publication:
2022-05-04
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