Quantifying lateral root reinforcement in steep slopes – from a bundle of roots to tree stands
By M. Schwarz, Peter Lehmann, Dani Or. 2010
280 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- How does forest structure affect root reinforcement and susceptibility to shallow landslides? (2016, background): “Distances from trees were divided by the maximum extent of lateral roots (dmax = 18.15 × dbh; Schwarz et al., 2010b).”
- Scaling of the reinforcement of soil slopes by living plants in a geotechnical centrifuge (2017, background): “The role of root stiffness and root–soil adhesion n the mobilization of root reinforcement has been highlighted by ickovski et al. (2007) and Schwarz et al. (2010a).”
- Root biomechanical properties during establishment of woody perennials (2017, background): “Recently, Schwarz et al. (2010) highlighted the importance of Young’s 420 modulus when estimating mechanical reinforcement of vegetated slopes.”
- Engineering ecological protection against landslides in diverse mountain forests: Choosing cohesion models (2012, unknown): “If a temporal factor could be introduced into the progressive breakage process (Schwarz et al., 2010), quantifying the position of the peak would enable identification of when remaining intact roots provide maximum cr during shear.”
- Mechanical interactions between neighbouring roots during pullout tests (2012, unknown): “We have used the following empirical function to fit the data of secondary lateral spruce roots collected in a forest stand near Zürich, Switzerland (Schwarz et al. 2010c) expressing root length L (the root length measured from where the root has been cut to the root tip) as function of diameter d (”
- Modeling root reinforcement using a root-failure Weibull survival function (2013, methodology): “In particular Schwarz et al. (2010b) propose an upscaling framework of root reinforcement at the hillslope scale considering the structure and the type of forest cover.”