Keywords
walkway construction
temperate forest
tropical forest
How to Cite
Abstract
Canopy access systems that include cable-supported walkway bridges are being built around the world to study forest canopy ecosystems. The "canopy walkways" considered here require less physical effort on the part of researchers than do rope climbing techniques. Such systems also facilitate collaboration between several researchers moving laterally through the canopy. The physics of building hanging structures, such as canopy bridges, needs to be understood and utilized to design a safe, long-lasting structure. An interactive computer program was developed that employs catenary curve equations and nested root extraction algorithms to calculate construction parameters. The use of this program has accelerated the design of several structures built in the canopy of both temperate and tropical forests.
Open Access and Copyright Notice
Selbyana is committed to real and immediate open access for academic work. All of Selbyana's articles and reviews are free to access immediately upon publication. There are no author charges (APCs) prior to publication, and no charges for readers to download articles and reviews for their own scholarly use. To facilitate this, Selbyana depends on the financial backing of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, the hard work and dedication of its editorial team and advisory board, and the continuing support of its network of peer reviewers and partner institutions.
Authors are free to choose which open license they would like to use for their work. Our default license is the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). While Selbyana’s articles can be copied by anyone for noncommercial purposes if proper credit is given, all materials are published under an open-access license with authors retaining full and permanent ownership of their work. The author grants Selbyana a perpetual, non-exclusive right to publish the work and to include it in other aggregations and indexes to achieve broader impact and visibility.
Authors are responsible for and required to ascertain that they are in possession of image rights for any and all photographs, illustrations, and figures included in their work or to obtain publication or reproduction rights from the rights holders. Contents of the journal will be registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals and similar repositories. Authors are encouraged to store their work elsewhere, for instance in institutional repositories or personal websites, including commercial sites such as academia.edu, to increase circulation (see The Effects of Open Access).