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Forests, Volume 11, Issue 2

February 2020 - 128 articles

Cover Story: Urban forests provide crucial ecosystem services to the world’s growing urbanised population. The structural diversity of an urban forest affects ecosystem service provision, and can inform management, planning, as well as policy. Here we contrast the structural diversity of urban forests in 38 American cities with a combined population of over 30 million people and a range of geographic, climatic, and demographic conditions. We hope our research will help urban forest stakeholders understand how current and future management, planning, and policy can be informed by structural diversity. View this paper
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Articles (128)

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
16,272 Views
34 Pages

What We Know and What We Do Not Know about Dragon Trees?

  • Petr Maděra,
  • Alan Forrest,
  • Pavel Hanáček,
  • Petr Vahalík,
  • Roman Gebauer,
  • Roman Plichta,
  • Radek Jupa,
  • Julian Jansen Van Rensburg,
  • Miranda Morris and
  • Nadezhda Nadezhdina
  • + 7 authors

21 February 2020

This article is a broad review focused on dragon trees—one of the most famous groups of trees in the world, well known from ancient times. These tertiary relicts are severely endangered in most of the area where they grow. The characteristic fe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,957 Views
25 Pages

21 February 2020

Humid boreal forests are unique environments characterized by a cold climate, abundant precipitation, and high evapotranspiration. Transpiration ( E T ), as a component of evapotranspiration (E), behaves differently under wet and dry canopy con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,914 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2020

Although numerous studies have demonstrated the toxic effects of fine particulates less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5) on the health of humans, little information is available on the ecotoxicity of PM2.5. Water-soluble inorganic ions (WSII, including Na+,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,380 Views
26 Pages

Potential of Genome-Wide Association Studies and Genomic Selection to Improve Productivity and Quality of Commercial Timber Species in Tropical Rainforest, a Case Study of Shorea platyclados

  • Sawitri,
  • Naoki Tani,
  • Mohammad Na’iem,
  • Widiyatno,
  • Sapto Indrioko,
  • Kentaro Uchiyama,
  • Rempei Suwa,
  • Kevin Kit Siong Ng,
  • Soon Leong Lee and
  • Yoshihiko Tsumura

21 February 2020

Shorea platyclados (Dark Red Meranti) is a commercially important timber tree species in Southeast Asia. However, its stocks have dramatically declined due, inter alia, to excessive logging, insufficient natural regeneration and a slow recovery rate....

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,450 Views
10 Pages

21 February 2020

Background and Objectives: The continuous increase in the amount of atmospheric CO2 is a factor that significantly contributes to global warming. Forests can be used to mitigate climate change by absorbing carbon and storing it. Scots pine (Pinus syl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,900 Views
14 Pages

Flowering Phenology and Characteristics of Pollen Aeroparticles of Quercus Species in Korea

  • Iereh Kim,
  • Myeong Ja Kwak,
  • Jong Kyu Lee,
  • Yeaji Lim,
  • Sanghee Park,
  • Handong Kim,
  • Keum-Ah Lee and
  • Su Young Woo

20 February 2020

In recent decades, airborne allergens for allergic respiratory diseases have been found to increase significantly by a process of converting coniferous forests into broad-leaved forests in Korea. This study was conducted to evaluate factors, includin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,492 Views
12 Pages

20 February 2020

Research Highlights: We detected the longitudinal gradients of genetic diversity parameters, such as the number of alleles, effective number of alleles, heterozygosity, and inbreeding coefficient, and found that these might be attributable to climati...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,298 Views
9 Pages

20 February 2020

This study investigates how certain forest soil properties influence the propensity of beech forests to windthrow disturbances. The field measurements of soil electrical resistivity were carried out in an old-growth natural beech forest where the soi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,002 Views
17 Pages

Effects of One-Year Simulated Nitrogen and Acid Deposition on Soil Respiration in a Subtropical Plantation in China

  • Shengsheng Xiao,
  • G. Geoff Wang,
  • Chongjun Tang,
  • Huanying Fang,
  • Jian Duan and
  • Xiaofang Yu

20 February 2020

Atmospheric nitrogen (N) and acid deposition have become global environmental issues and are likely to alter soil respiration (Rs); the largest CO2 source is from soil to the atmosphere. However, to date, much less attention has been focused on the i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,758 Views
15 Pages

19 February 2020

An object detection method of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) signals using empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and dynamic time warping (DTW) is proposed in this study. Two groups of timber specimens were examined. The first group comprised of Douglas...

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