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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)

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,884 Views
20 Pages

14 February 2020

Wildland fire occurrence is highly variable in time and space, and in the United States where total area burned can vary substantially, acquiring resources (firefighters, engines, aircraft, etc.) to respond to fire demand is an important consideratio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,665 Views
14 Pages

14 February 2020

Grafting, cutting, and pruning are important horticultural techniques widely used in the establishment of clonal forestry. After the application of these techniques, some properties of the plants change, however, the underlying molecular mechanisms a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,030 Views
13 Pages

14 February 2020

In karst landscapes, soil CO2 is a key factor in weathering processes and carbon cycling, where its distribution and migration characteristics directly affect fluxes in carbon source–sink dynamics. We measured the CO2 emission and dissolution r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,309 Views
18 Pages

A Method of Finding HCT Roundwood Corridors for Reduction of GHG Emissions and Fuel Costs in Sweden

  • Christian Höök,
  • Victor Asmoarp,
  • Björn Edlund and
  • Dan Bergström

14 February 2020

Background and Objectives: in Sweden during 2016, 71.6 million metric tonnes (t) of forest biomass (roundwood and forest fuels) were transported by truck, corresponding to approximately 15% of all national goods truck transport. To reduce the environ...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,729 Views
12 Pages

14 February 2020

Research Highlights: Our study highlights a new, simple, and effective method for studying the habitat use by beavers in Canadian boreal forests. Information regarding the presence of beaver colonies and their habitat occupation is essential for prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,990 Views
19 Pages

The Assessment of Two Species of Soapberry as Resources for High-Quality Biodiesel Production with an Optimized Method of Ultrasound-Assisted Oil Extraction

  • Yun-Qi Zhang,
  • Lin Jin,
  • Jie Duan,
  • Guo-Chun Zhao,
  • Yuan-Yuan Xu,
  • Ji-Ming Liu,
  • Li-Ming Jia,
  • Yan-Bin Hao and
  • Shu-Chai Su

13 February 2020

Biodiesel has many advantages, yet its high price has become the main obstacle to market acceptance. Selecting non-edible woody oil plant resources and optimizing the oil extraction process will contribute to the effective utilization of raw material...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,918 Views
15 Pages

Effect of Different Soil Treatments with Hydrogel on the Performance of Drought-Sensitive and Tolerant Tree Species in a Semi-Arid Region

  • Ivana Tomášková,
  • Michal Svatoš,
  • Jan Macků,
  • Hana Vanická,
  • Karolina Resnerová,
  • Jaroslav Čepl,
  • Jaroslav Holuša,
  • Seyed Mohammad Hosseini and
  • Achim Dohrenbusch

13 February 2020

Research Highlights: Although a number of forestry studies have found that hydrogel improves tree performance, studies that are located in semi-arid regions and that include a broad spectrum of tree species and the assessment of multiple physiologica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,614 Views
17 Pages

13 February 2020

Research Highlights: Ongoing land-use change and climate change in wet tropical forests can potentially drive shifts in tree species composition, representing a change in individual species within a functional group, tropical evergreen trees. The imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,790 Views
20 Pages

Evaluating the Effects of Pressure Indicators on Riparian Zone Health Conditions in the Three Gorges Dam Reservoir, China

  • Muhammad Arif,
  • Songlin Zhang,
  • Zheng Jie,
  • Wokadala Charles,
  • Pinky Sanelisiwe Mzondi and
  • Changxiao Li

13 February 2020

The possible negative impacts of flow regulation on riparian zone conditions can be observed due to the disruption of the natural flow regime in reservoirs. In spite of considerable literature on the qualitative effects of external disturbances on ri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,027 Views
14 Pages

Advance Regeneration of Norway Spruce and Scots Pine in Hemiboreal Forests in Latvia

  • Solveiga Luguza,
  • Guntars Snepsts,
  • Janis Donis,
  • Iveta Desaine,
  • Endijs Baders,
  • Mara Kitenberga,
  • Didzis Elferts and
  • Aris Jansons

13 February 2020

Continuous cover forestry (CCF) aims to emulate small natural disturbances and take advantage of natural regeneration. To implement these management practices successfully, knowledge of advance regeneration under the canopy in different conditions is...

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