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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
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Interests: tree nutrition; production ecology; nutrient cycling; forest soil carbon management; silvicultural management systems

Assistant Editor
Ms. Eva Liu
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 6280 0830
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Dr. Brietta Pike
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
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Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
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Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
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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
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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
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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
Contribution: Special Issue: The Role of Forests for Carbon Capture and Storage

Prof. Dr. Robert A. Blanchette
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, 495 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul, MN 55108-6030, USA
Tel. +1 612 625 0202; Fax: +1 612 625 9728
Website: http://forestpathology.cfans.umn.edu/Blanchette.htm
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Interests: forest pathology; tree diseases; forest microbes; microbial diversity; biological processing; forest health; wood microbiology; wood decomposition

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/
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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
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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
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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 Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Kuopio, Finland
Tel. +358 40 355 3203; Fax: +358 17 163 191
Website: http://www.uku.fi/~holopain/
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
Contribution: Special Issue: Long-Term Effects of Fire on Forest Soils

Prof. Dr. Rodney J. 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
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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
Contribution: Special Issue: Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Climate Change

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
Contribution: Special Issue: Future Forests

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/
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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
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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://nres.illinois.edu/directory/Guillermo_A_Mendoza
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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/
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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. C. Dana Nelson
Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 23332 Success Road, Saucier, MS 39574, USA
Tel. +1 228 832 2747; Fax: +1 228 832 0130
Website: http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/sifg/
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Interests: forest genetics; tree breeding; biotechnology
Contribution: Special Issue: Fusiform Rust Disease—Biology and Management of Resistance

Dr. Bruce Nicoll
Centre for Forestry and Climate Change, 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
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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/
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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/about_us/our_people/perry_george/index.shtm
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: In other journals:
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/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=230&Itemid=24
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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/
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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
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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
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Interests: people-forest interactions; non-timber forest products; tree planting; agroforestry; deforestation; afforestation; mangroves; Caribbean forests

Dr. David N. Wear
Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 3041 Cornwallis Rd., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Tel. +1-919-549-4011; Fax: +1-919-549-4047
Website: http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/index.htm
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Interests: forest policy; land use; forest economics; integrated resource assessments

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