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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)

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,749 Views
18 Pages

Dynamics of Dissolved Carbon in Subalpine Forest Streams

  • Jianfeng Hou,
  • Fei Li,
  • Zhihui Wang,
  • Xuqing Li,
  • Rui Cao and
  • Wanqin Yang

19 May 2022

Dissolved carbon (DC) in forest streams plays a crucial role in maintaining the structure and productivity of adjoining aquatic ecosystems as well as informing biogeochemical links between mountain forests and adjoining rivers. Nevertheless, the func...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,854 Views
18 Pages

Two Nothofagus Species in Southernmost South America Are Recording Divergent Climate Signals

  • Pamela Soto-Rogel,
  • Juan Carlos Aravena,
  • Ricardo Villalba,
  • Christian Bringas,
  • Wolfgang Jens-Henrik Meier,
  • Álvaro Gonzalez-Reyes and
  • Jussi Grießinger

19 May 2022

Recent climatic trends, such as warming temperatures, decrease in rainfall, and extreme weather events (e.g., heatwaves), are negatively affecting the performance of forests. In northern Patagonia, such conditions have caused tree growth reduction, c...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,148 Views
13 Pages

Comparing Geography and Severity of Managed Wildfires in California and the Southwest USA before and after the Implementation of the 2009 Policy Guidance

  • Jose M. Iniguez,
  • Alexander M. Evans,
  • Sepideh Dadashi,
  • Jesse D. Young,
  • Marc D. Meyer,
  • Andrea E. Thode,
  • Shaula J. Hedwall,
  • Sarah M. McCaffrey,
  • Stephen D. Fillmore and
  • Rachel Bean

19 May 2022

Managed wildfires, i.e., naturally ignited wildfires that are managed for resource benefits, have the potential to reduce fuel loads, minimize the effects of future wildfires, and restore critical natural processes across many forest landscapes. In t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,220 Views
12 Pages

19 May 2022

Reproductively successful and over-wintering populations of the endangered northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) have recently been discovered on the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Empirical data on resource selection within the region i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,290 Views
20 Pages

19 May 2022

Traditional forest-management practices are currently being scrutinised. Forest certification may verify sustainable development practices in primary forest production. However, certification of privately owned forest lands cannot be taken for grante...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,231 Views
8 Pages

Invasion of Emerald Ash Borer Agrilus planipennis and Ash Dieback Pathogen Hymenoscyphus fraxineus in Ukraine—A Concerted Action

  • Kateryna Davydenko,
  • Yuriy Skrylnyk,
  • Oleksandr Borysenko,
  • Audrius Menkis,
  • Natalia Vysotska,
  • Valentyna Meshkova,
  • Åke Olson,
  • Malin Elfstrand and
  • Rimvys Vasaitis

19 May 2022

Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis, is a beetle that originates from East Asia. Upon invasion to North America in the early 2000s, it killed untold millions of ash trees. In European Russia, EAB was first detected in Moscow in 2003 and prov...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,811 Views
13 Pages

Heterogeneous Responses of Alpine Treelines to Climate Warming across the Tibetan Plateau

  • Yafeng Wang,
  • Daihan Li,
  • Ping Ren,
  • Shalik Ram Sigdel and
  • Jesús Julio Camarero

19 May 2022

The Tibetan Plateau hosts a continuous distribution of alpine treelines from the Qilian Mountains to the Hengduan Mountains and the Himalaya Mountains. However, not much is known about the broadscale alpine treeline dynamics and their responses to cl...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,384 Views
22 Pages

18 May 2022

The forest stock volume (FSV) is one of the crucial indicators to reflect the quality of forest resources. Variable selection methods are usually used for FSV estimated models. However, few studies have explored which variable selection methods can m...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,620 Views
24 Pages

18 May 2022

The location information of strip roads in thinnings and the numerical variables of strip roads are one aspect of timber harvest quality information. The ideal of automatic quality management for mechanized logging is that the quality of the harvest...

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