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Forests, Volume 10, Issue 11

November 2019 - 114 articles

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Cover Story: Agroforestry systems can improve the provision of ecosystem services at the farm scale whilst improving agricultural productivity, thereby playing an important role in the sustainable intensification of agriculture. Natural capital accounting offers a framework for demonstrating the capacity of agroforestry systems to deliver sustained private benefits to farming enterprises, but traditionally is applied at larger scales than those at which farmers make decisions. Here we review the current state of knowledge on natural capital accounting and analyse how such an approach may be effectively applied to demonstrate the farm-scale value of agroforestry assets. We also discuss the merits of applying a natural capital approach to agroforestry decision-making and present an example of a conceptual model for valuation of agroforestry assets at the farm scale. View this paper.

Articles (114)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,167 Views
17 Pages

19 November 2019

In this paper, we propose a new estimator for creating expansion factors for survey plots in the US Forest Service (USFS) Forest Inventory and Analysis program. This estimator was previously used in the GIS literature, where it was called Penalized M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,605 Views
20 Pages

Effects of Post-Fire Deadwood Management on Soil Macroarthropod Communities

  • Carlos R. Molinas-González,
  • Jorge Castro,
  • Adela González-Megías and
  • Alexandro B. Leverkus

19 November 2019

Dead wood comprises a vast amount of biological legacies that set the scene for ecological regeneration after wildfires, yet its removal is the most frequent management strategy worldwide. Soil-dwelling organisms are conspicuous, and they provide ess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
7,092 Views
16 Pages

19 November 2019

The monitoring of tree species diversity is important for forest or wetland ecosystem service maintenance or resource management. Remote sensing is an efficient alternative to traditional field work to map tree species diversity over large areas. Pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,331 Views
16 Pages

19 November 2019

The herbaceous understory represents a key component of forest biodiversity across temperate forests of Europe. Here, we quantified changes in the diversity and composition of the forest understory layer in representative Slovenian forest ecosystems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,877 Views
22 Pages

18 November 2019

The genus Gnetum includes pantropical trees, shrubs and lianas, with unresolved phylogenetic relationships with other seed plant groups. Despite the reference genome for this genus being recently published, the molecular mechanisms that regulate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,400 Views
13 Pages

Soil Carbon Storage and Its Determinants in Forest Fragments of Differentiated Patch Size

  • Chunyu Shen,
  • Lei Ma,
  • Jiaxi Hu,
  • Liyang Huang,
  • Yujuan Chen and
  • Dongsheng Guan

18 November 2019

Research Highlights: Soil carbon storage (SOC) decreased due to forest fragmentation through lower proportion of macroaggregate distribution, higher storage of fine roots and litter falls, and lower fine root production rate. Background and Objective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,388 Views
16 Pages

Nitrogen Addition Alleviates Microbial Nitrogen Limitations and Promotes Soil Respiration in a Subalpine Coniferous Forest

  • Yang Liu,
  • Qianmei Chen,
  • Zexi Wang,
  • Haifeng Zheng,
  • Yamei Chen,
  • Xian Chen,
  • Lifeng Wang,
  • Hongjie Li and
  • Jian Zhang

16 November 2019

Soil microbes are an important component of soil ecosystems that influence material circulation and are involved in the energy flow of ecosystems. The increase in atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition affects all types of terrestrial ecosystems, includ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,741 Views
16 Pages

16 November 2019

Eogystia hippophaecola Hua, Chou, Fang et Chen (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) is an important borer pest of the sea buckthorn forest (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) in China. Its larvae, which are highly cold tolerant, mainly overwinter in sea buckthorn roots. He...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,204 Views
18 Pages

16 November 2019

Efficient methodologies for mapping forest types in complicated mountain areas are essential for the implementation of sustainable forest management practices and monitoring. Existing solutions dedicated to forest-type mapping are primarily focused o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,384 Views
16 Pages

Selection of Poplar Genotypes for Adapting to Climate Change

  • Marzena Niemczyk,
  • Yue Hu and
  • Barb R. Thomas

16 November 2019

Deployment of well-adapted, water use efficient, and productive genotypes may be essential for the sustainability of both forests and wood supply for the forest industry, as climate change is increasing water stress around the world. This study aimed...

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