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Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Eric J. Jokela
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, P.O. Box 110410, 118 Newins-Ziegler Hall, Gainesville, Florida 32611-0410, USA Tel. +1 352 846 0890; Fax: +1 352 846 1277
Website: http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/faculty/jokela/index.html E-Mail:
Interests: tree nutrition; production ecology; nutrient cycling; forest soil carbon management; silvicultural management systems
Managing Editor
Ms. Clara Fiúza
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
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Editorial Board
Dr. M. Altaf Arain
School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada Tel. 905 525 9140, Ext. 27941; Fax: 905 546 0463
Website: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/geo/faculty/arain/research/index.htm E-Mail:
Interests: hydrometeorology; forest hydrology; evaporation; forest carbon cycle; managed forests; afforestation; eddy covariance technique; ecosystem models; land surface atmosphere interaction models
Dr. Michael Battaglia
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Private Bag 12, Hobart 7001, Australia Tel. +61 (3)62375612; Fax: +61 (3)62375601
Website: http://www.csiro.au/people/Michael.Battaglia.html#2 E-Mail:
Interests: forest ecophysiology; gas exchange; process-based modelling; climate change
Dr. Peter N. Beets
New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd (trading as Scion), Private Bag 3020, 49 Sala Street, Rotorua, New Zealand Tel. +64 7 343 5577; Fax: +64 7 348 0952
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Interests: forest carbon stocks and changes; carbon modelling and validation; forest inventory; remote sensing and lidar; impact of disease on growth; forest production and nutrient cycling; impacts of climate change; land use change and forestry
Prof. Dr. Phillip G. Comeau
Department of Renewable Resources Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics University of Alberta, Canada Tel. +1 780 492 1879; Fax: +1 780 492 4323
Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~pcomeau/ E-Mail:
Interests: silviculture; quantitative silviculture; mixedwood silviculture; vegetation management; silvicultural systems
Dr. Robert Evans
CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, Victoria 3169, Australia Tel. +61 (3)9545 2329; Fax: +61 (3)9545 2139
Website: http://www.csiro.au/people/Robert.Evans.html E-Mail:
Interests: wood structure; non-destructive testing; climate adaptation; forest products
Prof. Dr. Stephen C. Hart
School of Natural Sciences & Sierra Nevada Research Institute; University of California, Merced, 5200 North Lake Rd., Merced, CA 95344, USA Tel. +1 209 228 4656
Website: http://www2.for.nau.edu/EELab E-Mail:
Interests: forest ecology; plant-soil interactions; influence of climatic change, wildfire, and management on the structure and function of forests; controls on forest productivity
Dr. Paul F. Hessburg
USDA-FS, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1133 N. Western Avenue, Wenatchee, WA 98801, USA; School of Forest Resources, College of the Environment, University of Washington, USA Tel. +1 509 664 1722
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Interests: landscape ecology; disturbance ecology; landscape assessment; decision support modeling; fire ecology; forest pathology
Prof. Dr. Jarmo K. Holopainen
Department of Environmental Science, University of Kuopio, P.O.Box 1627, FIN-70211, Kuopio, Finland Tel. +358 40 355 3203; Fax: +358 17 163 191
Website: http://www.uku.fi/~holopain/ E-Mail:
Interests: forest entomology; pest management; air pollution; climate change; chemical ecology; plant volatiles; tree physiology
Prof. Dr. John Innes
Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2045-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada Tel. +1 604 822 6761; Fax: +1 604 822 9106
Website: http://sustain.forestry.ubc.ca/ E-Mail:
Interests: forest management; forest-dependent communities; geomorphology; air pollution; climate change; criteria and indicators; certification; Chinese forestry; international forest policy
Dr. Hervé Jactel
Laboratory of Forest Entomology and Biodiversity, UMR BIOGECO - INRA, 69 Route d'Arcachon, 33612 Cestas cedex, France Tel. + 33 (0)557 122 859; Fax: + 33 (0)557 122 881
Website: http://www.pierroton.inra.fr/biogeco/entomologie/personnel/Jactel/Jactelperso.html E-Mail:
Interests: entomology; ecology; insect, pest management; biodiversity conservation; plantation; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Prof. Dr. Dale W. Johnson
Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Nevada, Reno, Fleischmann Agriculture Bldg., Ms 370, Reno, NV 89557, USA Tel. +1 775 784 4511; Fax: +1 775 784 4789
Website: http://www.ag.unr.edu/dwj/ E-Mail:
Interests: biogeochemical cycling in natural systems; effects of regional and global phenomena (atmospheric pollution, increased carbon dioxide and climate change) and localized influences (such as harvesting, fire, fertilization) on biochemical cycling, primarily in forest ecosystems; soil-soil solution chemical interactions; factors affecting organic carbon accumulation and loss in soils; nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus transformations in soils
Prof. Dr. Rod Keenan
Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, The University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie St, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia Tel. +61 (0) 3 9035 8227; Fax: +61 (0) 3 9349 4218
Website: http://www.forestscience.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/rod_keenan/index.html E-Mail:
Interests: forests and climate change (mitigation and adaptation); forest assessment and planning; ecology and nutrient cycling; computer modelling of ecosystem functioning; forest and international development policy
Prof. Dr. Sune Linder
Southern Swedish Forest Research Center, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), P.O. Box 49, SE-230 53, Alnarp, Sweden Tel. +46 40 415162; Fax: +46 40 462325
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Interests: ecophysiology; long-term manipulation experiments; carbon and nutrient dynamics; forest production; impacts of climate change
Prof. Dr. Brian C. McCarthy
Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, 317 Porter Hall, Athens, OH 45701-2979, USA Tel. +1 740 593 1615; Fax: +1 740 593 1130
Website: http://www.plantbio.ohiou.edu/index.php/directory/faculty_page/brian_mccarthy/ E-Mail:
Interests: ecological and life-history attributes associated with hardwood regeneration; disturbance ecology and community impacts; forest herb community structure and diversity; ecology, habitat susceptibility, and control methods for non-native invasive species; forest restoration and mine-land reclamation
Dr. Chris McElhinny
The Fenner School of Environment & Society, College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, The Australian National University, Forestry Building 48, Linnaeus Way, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Tel. +61 2 6125 4533; Fax: +61 2 6125 0746
Website: http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/people/academics/mcelhinnyc.php E-Mail:
Interests: forest and woodland structural complexity; landscape and patch scale biometrics; carbon and nutrient dynamics; silviculture for ecologically sustainable forest management
Dr. Guillermo Mendoza
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, W-523 Turner Hall, MC-047, 1102 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Tel. +1 217 333 9347
Website: http://www.nres.uiuc.edu/gamendoza E-Mail:
Interests: natural resource modeling; geographic information systems; spatial analysis; sustainable forest and resource management; climate change; land use change modeling
Prof. Dr. P. K. Ramachandran Nair
Center for Subtropical Agroforestry, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, IFAS, University of Florida, 118 N-Z Hall, PO Box 110410, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA Tel. +1 352 846 0880; Fax: +1 352 846 1277
Website: http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/faculty/nair/ E-Mail:
Interests: agroforestry; carbon sequestration; degraded lands; environmental amelioration; integrated land-use systems; international development; multipurpose trees; nitrogen-fixing trees
Dr. E.K. Sadanandan Nambiar
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Gungahlin Homestead, GPO Box 284, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Tel. +61 2 6242 1500
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Interests: sustainable plantation forestry; ecosystem services; nutrient cycling; plantations in developing-tropical counties; forests and poverty
Dr. Bruce Nicoll
Centre for Forest Resources and Management, Forest Research, Northern Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland, EH25 9SY, UK Tel. +44 (0)131 445 6940; Fax: +44 (0)131 445 5124
Website: http://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/fr/INFD-64FGM2 E-Mail:
Interests: adaptive forest management in relation to climate change; tree biomechanics; root system development; abiotic stress and acclimative growth; slope stability; forest risk management
Prof. Dr. Kevin L. O'Hara
Professor of Silviculture, 137 Mulford Hall, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114 USA Tel. +1 510 642 2127
Website: http://nature.berkeley.edu/~ohara/ E-Mail:
Interests: silviculture; stand dynamics; applied ecology; stand management
Dr. George L. W. Perry
School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand Tel. +64 9 373 7599; Fax: +64 9 373 7434
Website: http://www.sges.auckland.ac.nz/the_school/our_people/perry_george/index.shtm E-Mail:
Interests: forest ecology; spatial ecology; fire; disturbance; ecological modelling; spatial statistics
Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Ruel
Département des Sciences du Bois et de la Forêt, Faculté de Foresterie, de Géographie et de Géomatique, Université Laval, Pavillon Abitibi-Price, Local 2148, 2405, rue de la Terrasse, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada Tel. 418 656 2131, poste 7665; Fax: 418 656 5262
Website: http://ww2.sbf.ulaval.ca/index.php?id=434 E-Mail:
Interests: windthrow; silviculture; applied ecology; forest management; ecosystem management; forest regeneration
Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Straka
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Clemson University, Box 340317, Clemson, SC 29634-0317, USA Tel. +1 864 656 4827; Fax: +1 864 656 3304
Website: http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/departments/forestry/faculty_staff/straka_thomas.html E-Mail:
Interests: forest resource valuation; forest resource economics; forest resource management; forest resource management planning; forestry appraisal; quantitative forest management; forest history
Prof. Dr. Em. Andrew P. Vayda
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520, USA E-Mail:
Interests: causes of tropical forest fires and tropical deforestation; methodology of research on people/forest interactions
Prof. Dr. Dave Verbyla
Department of Forest Sciences, School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7200, USA Tel. +1 907 474 5553; Fax: +1 907 474 6184
Website: http://nrm.salrm.uaf.edu/~dverbyla E-Mail:
Interests: remote sensing; geographic information systems; spatial analysis; multi-temporal trends in boreal forests; boreal wildfire severity; bias in change detection estimates; GIS analysis techniques
Contribution:
Special Issue: Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing
Prof. Dr. Timo Vesala
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 48, FI-00014, Helsinki, Finland Tel. +358 405779008; Fax: +358 9 19150717
Website: http://www.atm.helsinki.fi/indexeng.html E-Mail:
Interests: forest meteorology; carbon cycling; water cycling; nitrogen cycling; aerosol deposition; sap flow; boreal ecosystems; urban ecosystems
Prof. Dr. Robert G. Wagner
School of Forest Resources and Cooperative Forestry Research Unit, University of Maine, 5755 Nutting Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5755, USA Tel. +1 207 581 4737; Fax: +1 207 581 2875
Website: http://www.forest.umaine.edu/facstaff/facstaff_pages/wagner/ E-Mail:
Interests: forest sustainability; forest regeneration following harvesting; silvicultural practices; ecological effects of forest management practices in the Acadian forest
Prof. Dr. John C. F. Walker
School of Forestry, College of Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand Tel. +64 3 364 2118
Website: http://www.fore.canterbury.ac.nz/people/walker.shtml E-Mail:
Interests: wood quality from breeding to utilization (specific interest in pines and eucalypts); wood processing (mechanical properties, drying and preservation)
Dr. Bradley B. Walters
Department of Geography and Environment, Mount Allison University, 144 Main Street, Sackville, N.B. E4L1A7, Canada Tel. +1 506 364 2323; Fax: +1 506 364 2625
Website: http://www.mta.ca/faculty/socsci/geograph/walters.htm E-Mail:
Interests: people-forest interactions; non-timber forest products; tree planting; agroforestry; deforestation; afforestation; mangroves; Caribbean forests
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