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Forests, Volume 13, Issue 5

May 2022 - 183 articles

Cover Story: Trees have been found to move their branches in a diurnal pattern, settling down during the night and rising up in the morning, but the causes of this movement have been unclear. We investigated the effect of tree water status on branch position using terrestrial laser scanning in the laboratory and the field and found that tree water status explained up to 95% of the variation in branch position. Branches moved upwards as leaf water content decreased and vice versa. Based on our findings, the increasing mass of water in leaves and branches due to refilling of water storages causes the downward movement of tree branches during the night. View this paper
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Articles (183)

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,060 Views
14 Pages

23 May 2022

As the dominant height of the stand at the baseline age, the site index is an important index to evaluate site quality. However, due to the variability of environmental factors, the growth process of the dominant height of the same tree species was v...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,763 Views
10 Pages

Estimation of Postfire Reforestation with SAR Polarimetry and NDVI Time Series

  • Valery Bondur,
  • Tumen Chimitdorzhiev,
  • Irina Kirbizhekova and
  • Aleksey Dmitriev

23 May 2022

This communication is devoted to the methodology of remote complex analysis of forest restoration after strong wildfires. It is proposed to quantify the projective leaf/needles area index by multispectral optical images. The increase in dimensions of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,360 Views
13 Pages

23 May 2022

Tree species recognition is important for remote–sensing mapping and dynamic monitoring of forest resource. However, the complex phenological cycle poses a challenge to remote–sensing recognition of deciduous tree species in mountainous a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,266 Views
18 Pages

23 May 2022

Establishing a relationship model between environmental protection and resource utilization attitude and consumption intention is the key to promoting the sustainable development of forest tourism. From the standpoint of the Stimulus–Organism&n...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,578 Views
31 Pages

23 May 2022

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), colloquially known as drones, has grown rapidly over the past two decades and continues to expand at a rapid pace. This has resulted in the production of many research papers addressing the use of UAVs in a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,639 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2022

Vegetated filters based on short-rotation coppice (SRC) can be used to treat various industrial and municipal wastewater while producing valuable biomass in an economical and sustainable way, showing potential in the field of pollution control and bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,796 Views
12 Pages

22 May 2022

We leveraged publicly available data on juvenile tree height of 299 Central European Norway spruce populations grown in a common garden experiment across 24 diverse trial locations in Austria and weather data from the trial locations and population p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,924 Views
13 Pages

The Market Evolution of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: A Global Supply Chain Analysis and an Application of the Delphi Method in the Mediterranean Area

  • Ibtissem Taghouti,
  • Roser Cristobal,
  • Anton Brenko,
  • Kalliopi Stara,
  • Nikos Markos,
  • Benjamin Chapelet,
  • Lamia Hamrouni,
  • Dino Buršić and
  • José-Antonio Bonet

21 May 2022

There is an increasing evidence for the significant value and potential of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) worldwide. Among other non-wood forest products, MAPs are considered a key element of sustainable forest management and economic developme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,787 Views
12 Pages

20 May 2022

Populus ussuriensis is an important tree species with high economic and ecologic values. However, traditional sexual propagation is time-consuming and inefficient, challenging afforestation and wood production using P. ussuriensis, and requires a rap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,561 Views
12 Pages

Broad-Leaved Tree Growth Modulated by Industrial Air Pollution in the Northern Romania (Baia Mare Region)

  • Cristian Gheorghe Sidor,
  • Cosmin Ilie Cuciurean,
  • Ionel Popa,
  • Ștefan Leca,
  • Radu Vlad and
  • Ovidiu Badea

20 May 2022

Atmospheric pollutants over the last century have led to increased negative impacts on the environment, especially on forest ecosystems. In the Baia Mare region of Romania, the influence of pollution on the neighboring forests of the municipality has...

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Forests - ISSN 1999-4907