The farming-pastoral ecotone (FPE) of northern China serves as a critical ecological transition zone, in which poplar plantations significantly contribute to afforestation for large-scale ecological restoration projects. Due to concerns about sustain...
The continuous upsurge in soil nitrogen (N) enrichment has had strong impacts on the structure and function of ecosystems. Elucidating how plant ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) mutualists respond to this additional N will facilitate the rapid development...
Inappropriate fertilization management practices have led to low timber production in intensive plantation systems in China. Thus, optimized conventional or advanced fertilization management practices are needed. We aimed to quantify whether optimize...
Thinning is one of the intensive forest management techniques commonly applied to increase the merchantable timber volume. However, how thinning affects soil–atmospheric fluxes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is poorly understood. A field experiment with...
Although the understory vegetation abundance, diversity, and composition associated with stand development in natural forests have been well reported, only a few studies have examined the age-related changes of understory vegetation in fast-growing p...
Canopy closure (CC), a useful biophysical parameter for forest structure, is an important indicator of forest resource and biodiversity. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data has been widely studied recently for forest ecosystems to obtain the thr...
Soil biodiversity and fuction have been altered by the increasing levels of nitrogen as a result of fertilization and atmospheric deposition. Although soil microarthropods are a crucial component of soil biodiversity and play a key role in a diverse...
Poplar is one of the most widespread fast-growing forest species. In Northern Italy, plantations are characterized by large interannual fluctuations, requiring frequent monitoring to inform on wood supply and to manage the stands. The use of radar sa...
Artificial pruning is an important silvicultural practice that can produce clear wood in poplar plantations. This study focused on the growth of poplar, understory vegetation diversity and soil properties in response to different pruning intensities...
The presence of weeds and changes in temperature and precipitation due to global climate change can negatively affect the growth, development, and adaptation of poplars to new places. Experiments were conducted at the Experimental Estate of the Insti...
South Korean forests need hardwood tree species that can produce timber, as global warming progresses and the habitats of conifers dwindle. For the past 30 years, exotic yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) has been planted to replace some of the...
Accurate estimation of biomass and carbon stocks in forest ecosystems is critical for understanding their roles in carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation. Currently, the development of stand biomass models and carbon stock estimation at t...
Specialized poplar plantations are relevant for wood-based panel production. In recent years, the Italian poplar sector has progressively moved towards more sustainable cultivation systems. Breeding programs developed new clones with fast growth and...
Hybrid poplar plantations are becoming increasingly important as a source of income for farmers in northwestern Spain, as rural depopulation and farmers aging prevent landowners from planting other labor-intensive crops. However, plantation owners, u...
The majority of terrestrial plants are symbiotic with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Plants supply carbohydrates to microbes, whereas AMF provide plants with water and other necessary nutrients—most typically, phosphorus. Understanding the...
Afforestation is a strategy to protect croplands and to sequestrate carbon in coastal areas. In addition, inorganic carbon is a considerable constitute of the coastal soil carbon pool. However, the vertical distribution and controlling factors of soi...
Soil resident water-stable macroaggregates (diameter (Ø) > 0.25 mm) play a critical role in organic carbon conservation and fertility. However, limited studies have investigated the direct effects of stand development on soil aggregation an...
Hybrid poplar plantations are becoming increasingly important as a source of income for farmers in the Duero Basin (northwestern Spain), as rural depopulations and aging prevent farmers from planting other labor-intensive crops. However, forest owner...
Forest canopy height plays an important role in forest management and ecosystem modeling. There are a variety of techniques employed to map forest height using remote sensing data but it is still necessary to explore the use of new data and methods....
The soil food web is essential for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. The application of naphthalene is a commonly employed experimental treatment for expelling soil fauna to examine faunal effects on litter decomposition processes, for which...
Soil fauna is critical for maintaining ecosystem functioning, and its community could be significantly impacted by nitrogen (N) deposition. However, our knowledge of how soil-faunal community composition responds to N addition is still limited. In th...
Poplar is popular among farmers and planted widely in the form of block and boundary systems. The preferences of farmers are shifting much more towards bund plantations due to their smaller yield reductions and can take up kharif and rabi crops till...
Understanding the composition and diversity of soil microorganisms that typically mediate the soil biogeochemical cycle is crucial for estimating greenhouse gas flux and mitigating global changes in plantation forests. Therefore, the objectives of th...
Despite the significant reduction in the overall cultivated area registered in recent decades, poplar still plays an important economic role in the Po Valley–Italy, where many farms involved in the plantation of this species are present, and th...
This research focuses on producing particleboards from the biomass of plantation willow (Salix viminalis L.) and poplar (Populus spp.), aiming to explore their feasibility as sustainable materials for various applications. Fast-growing willow and pop...
Poplar (Populus × euramericana) is grown in the irrigated, short-rotation plantations of the Vega de Granada, southern Spain. Its recent recognition as structural timber (clones MC and Luisa Avanzo, tensile class T10, 2024) is rarely traced bac...
Biochar amendment is widely used to enhance soil carbon storage and regulate greenhouse gas emissions, but field evidence from forest plantations remains limited. This 1.5-year field study investigated the responses of soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emiss...
Poplar plantations have the capacity to improve the properties of soils in muddy coastal areas; however, our understanding of the impacts of plantation development on soil arthropods remains limited. For this study, we determined the community dynami...
Plantations have many advantages when compared to natural or semi-natural forests, such as shortening production cycles, the production of wood with specific characteristics, and near-market production concentrations. The intensive development of thi...
Evapotranspiration is a key link in the water cycle of terrestrial ecosystems, and the partitioning of evapotranspiration is a prerequisite for diagnosing vegetation growth and water use strategies. In this study, we used double-layer eddy covariance...
Planting density primarily affects the yield and wood quality of plantations. There are multiple reports on the effects of planting density on growth traits and wood properties in young triploid Chinese white poplar (Populus tomentosa) plantations. N...
Phosphorus is one of the main nutrients necessary for plant growth and development. Phosphorus-dissolving microorganisms may convert insoluble phosphorus in soil into available phosphorus that plants can easily absorb and utilize. In this study, four...
The temperature sensitivity (Q10) of soil respiration (Rs) plays a crucial role in evaluating the carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems under global warming. However, the variability in Q10 along soil moisture gradients remains a subject of debate,...
Long-term nitrogen (N) addition induces N saturation in forests, but its impacts on nutrient allocation across plant organs and life forms remain unclear. Utilizing a 12-year N addition experiment in a coastal poplar plantation in southeastern China,...
Poplar (Poplus spp.) is an important forest species widely distributed in China of great significance in identifying factors that clearly influence its growth rate in order to achieve effective control of poplar growth. In this study, we selected 16...
Poplar (Populus spp.) is a fast-growing tree planted to meet the growing global demand for wood products. In France, the country with the largest area planted with poplar in Europe, accurate and up-to-date maps of its spatial distribution are not ava...
Invasive glossy buckthorn could reduce restoration potential for understory native forest herbs by compromising their growth and biodiversity. Few studies of glossy buckthorn’s effects on forest herbs exist, and none were done in early-successional,...
Poplars are crucial for timber supply and ecological protection in China. Enhancing the growth of poplar plantations and improving soil fertility in arid, and semi-arid poor soil regions are key aspects of sustainable forest management. Fertilization...
A comprehension of the effects planting density and nitrogen (N) fertilization have on the physiological and morphological characteristics of trees is critical for optimizing the require size and characteristics of wood products. We evaluated the gro...
In 2017, a 560-ha area of hybrid poplar plantation in northern Poland showed symptoms of tree decline. The leaves appeared smaller, yellow-brown, and were shed prematurely. Twigs and smaller branches died without distinct cankers. Trunks decayed from...
Biomass, due to its neutrality in terms of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere during its life cycle, is considered an interesting renewable source for energy production as an alternative to the use of more polluting fossil fuels. Among the...
The stability of biochar is fundamental to its soil carbon (C) sequestration potential. The relative importance of chemical recalcitrance and the soil microbial community on biochar stability is still unclear. To unveil the question, we conducted a 6...
Riparian vegetation, which performs many key ecological functions, has been modified or lost at an alarming rate during the past century as a result of human activity. The aims of this study are (a) to investigate the effects of poplar plantations on...
In this study the influence of three different tillage systems in combination with eight varying weed treatments applied within the establishment year and its effect on the final above ground leafless biomass production (after the third growing seaso...
No study has been previously completed on the range of sites, potential yield, and financial characteristics of poplar short rotation coppice plantations (SRC) in Hungary. This paper conducts a literature survey to reveal the biomass production poten...
Controlling competing vegetation during early growth is one of the most important practices for the successful establishment of poplar plantations. Today, most poplar plantations in temperate regions are established on abandoned marginal agricultural...
Understory vegetation plays a crucial role in nutrient turnover and cycling in plantations, but it also competes for nutrients with crop trees when only a single species is present due to its specific nutrient requirements. However, it remains unclea...
In this paper we present results obtained in the framework of a regional-scale analysis of the carbon budget of poplar plantations in Northern Italy. We explored the ability of the process-based model BIOME-BGC to estimate the gross primary productio...
Poplar trees (Populus spp.) are some of the fastest growing hardwoods used for biomass production. There are, however, conflicting observations about water use of poplars associated with the impact on local water resources. A STELLA (Structural Think...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are the key symbiotic microorganisms in sandy poplar plantations, regulating vegetation restoration and nutrient cycling. This study aims to investigate the impact of biogas slurry (BS) application on the community...
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