Assessment of soil compaction and rutting in managed forests through an airborne <scp>LiDAR</scp> technique

Mohieddinne, Hamza; Brasseur, Boris; Gallet‐Moron, Emilie; Lenoir, Jonathan; Spicher, Fabien; Kobaissi, Ahmad; Horen, Hélène

doi:10.1002/ldr.4553

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“…For example, the interaction between environmental change and forest management practices can favor specific lineages (e.g. clades within Poaceae or Cyperaceae) through soil compaction (Mohieddinne et al ., 2022), canopy openness (Pilon et al ., 2020), and human‐assisted dispersal (Closset‐Kopp et al ., 2019). In addition, grazing pressure promotes different ecological strategies, particularly along the eutrophication gradient (Segar et al ., 2022).…”

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Evaluating plant lineage losses and gains in temperate forest understories: a phylogenetic perspective on climate change and nitrogen deposition

Padullés Cubino,

Lenoir,

et al. 2023

New Phytologist

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Summary Global change has accelerated local species extinctions and colonizations, often resulting in losses and gains of evolutionary lineages with unique features. Do these losses and gains occur randomly across the phylogeny? We quantified: temporal changes in plant phylogenetic diversity (PD); and the phylogenetic relatedness (PR) of lost and gained species in 2672 semi‐permanent vegetation plots in European temperate forest understories resurveyed over an average period of 40 yr. Controlling for differences in species richness, PD increased slightly over time and across plots. Moreover, lost species within plots exhibited a higher degree of PR than gained species. This implies that gained species originated from a more diverse set of evolutionary lineages than lost species. Certain lineages also lost and gained more species than expected by chance, with Ericaceae, Fabaceae, and Orchidaceae experiencing losses and Amaranthaceae, Cyperaceae, and Rosaceae showing gains. Species losses and gains displayed no significant phylogenetic signal in response to changes in macroclimatic conditions and nitrogen deposition. As anthropogenic global change intensifies, temperate forest understories experience losses and gains in specific phylogenetic branches and ecological strategies, while the overall mean PD remains relatively stable.

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Evaluating plant lineage losses and gains in temperate forest understories: a phylogenetic perspective on climate change and nitrogen deposition

Padullés Cubino,

Lenoir,

et al. 2023

New Phytologist

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“…As it happens for any component of the forest soil (Karami et al, 2023; Latterini, Venanzi, et al, 2023; Mohieddinne et al, 2022), the features and presence of fine roots can also be considerably affected by forest management activities and particularly by ground‐based forest operations, mostly as a consequence of machinery‐induced soil compaction (Högberg & Wester, 1998; Jourgholami, Feghhi, Tavankar, et al, 2021; Malo & Messier, 2011; Proto et al, 2016). Rooting is indeed ensured only in soils where a constant supply of water, nutrients and gas exchange is maintained (Flores Fernández, Rubin, et al, 2019; Schäffer et al, 2009) and previous research highlighted how the compacted soil after the passage of heavy machinery limits rooting capacity (Mariotti et al, 2020) and alters gas fluxes (Vantellingen et al, 2022).…”

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A Meta‐analysis of the effects of ground‐based extraction technologies on fine roots in forest soils

Latterini,

Dyderski,

Horodecki

et al. 2023

Land Degrad Dev

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Fine roots are an important component of forest soil as they play a key role in fundamental processes like plant nutrition and water supply. As with all the features of forest soil, the compaction related to the forest operations and, in particular, to the wood extraction via ground‐based technologies could lead to a significant impact on the presence of fine roots in the soil affected by the passage of the machines. Considering the lack of a review, we used a meta‐analytic approach to synthesise effect sizes of ground‐based extraction technologies affecting the presence of fine roots in the soil, using a multivariate mixed‐effects meta‐analytic model. The obtained results revealed that the presence of fine roots in the soil affected by the passage of the machines was significantly reduced by both skidding (g = −1.23, 95%CI ‐1.87, −0.60) and forwarding (g = −1.37, 95%CI ‐2.01, −0.74). Due to the higher soil compaction caused by forwarding, this method had a marginally but statistically significant greater impact than skidding. We further confirmed the hypothesis that soil compaction and the presence of fine roots were strongly correlated, with the latter being greatly reduced in compacted soils characterised by higher bulk density. What is more, even more than 20 years after a harvesting intervention, the presence of fine roots was significantly lower in both strip roads (forwarding) and skid trails (skidding) as compared to areas which were not impacted by the machine passage. This shows that fine roots are particularly vulnerable to forest operations. On the other hand, the majority of the trails in the database used for the meta‐analysis were created in countries that favour the creation of a small number of widely used trails. Therefore, it would be scientifically valuable to do a comparative evaluation in various forestry contexts, such as in the Mediterranean area, where the development of the forest trails network is oriented on creating a large number of trails with low traffic volumes. Because machinery‐induced soil compaction is the major driver of the decrease in fine roots in skid trails and strip roads, both the application of best management practices as well as of a smarter planning of the trail network to limit soil compaction are strongly recommended. Both applications are highly recommended to be used in the planning phase and in the practical implementation of logging activities.

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Accuracy and inter-cloud precision of low-cost mobile LiDAR technology in estimating soil disturbance in forest operations

Forkuo

Borz

2023

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Forest operations can cause long-term soil disturbance, leading to environmental and economic losses. Mobile LiDAR technology has become increasingly popular in forest management for mapping and monitoring disturbances. Low-cost mobile LiDAR technology, in particular, has attracted significant attention due to its potential cost-effectiveness, ease of use, and ability to capture high-resolution data. The LiDAR technology, which is integrated in the iPhone 13–14 Pro Max series, has the potential to provide high accuracy and precision data at a low cost, but there are still questions on how this will perform in comparison to professional scanners. In this study, an iPhone 13 Pro Max equipped with SiteScape and 3D Scanner apps, and the GeoSlam Zeb Revo scanner were used to collect and generate point cloud datasets for comparison in four plots showing variability in soil disturbance and local topography. The data obtained from the LiDAR devices were analyzed in CloudCompare using the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) and Least Square Plane (LSP) methods of cloud-to-cloud comparisons (C2C) to estimate the accuracy and intercloud precision of the LiDAR technology. The results showed that the low-cost mobile LiDAR technology was able to provide accurate and precise data for estimating soil disturbance using both the ICP and LSP methods. Taking as a reference the point clouds collected with the Zeb Revo scanner, the accuracy of data derived with SiteScape and 3D Scanner apps varied from RMS = 0.016 to 0.035 m, and from RMS = 0.017 to 0.025 m, respectively. This was comparable to the precision or repeatability of the professional LiDAR instrument, Zeb Revo (RMS = 0.019–0.023 m). The intercloud precision of the data generated with SiteScape and 3D Scanner apps varied from RMS = 0.015 to 0.017 m and from RMS = 0.012 to 0.014 m, respectively, and were comparable to the precision of Zeb Revo measurements (RMS = 0.019–0.023 m). Overall, the use of low-cost mobile LiDAR technology fits well to the requirements to map and monitor soil disturbances and it provides a cost-effective and efficient way to gather high resolution data, which can assist the sustainable forest management practices.

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Assessment of soil compaction and rutting in managed forests through an airborne LiDAR technique

Cited by 6 publications

References 59 publications

Evaluating plant lineage losses and gains in temperate forest understories: a phylogenetic perspective on climate change and nitrogen deposition

Evaluating plant lineage losses and gains in temperate forest understories: a phylogenetic perspective on climate change and nitrogen deposition

A Meta‐analysis of the effects of ground‐based extraction technologies on fine roots in forest soils

Accuracy and inter-cloud precision of low-cost mobile LiDAR technology in estimating soil disturbance in forest operations

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