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Forests, Volume 13, Issue 9

September 2022 - 188 articles

Cover Story: Triggered by frequent high temperatures and scarce precipitation, droughts are a recurrent phenomenon in the Mediterranean Basin, causing significant impacts on forests. We analyzed the effects of drought intensity, duration, and seasonality on tree growth by investigating the relationship between the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) at different time scales and tree ring width in three pines in the Mediterranean Basin. Our results showed that the maximum intensity of drought-affected conifers occurred more in the southern areas of the Spanish Mediterranean coast. We observed a latitudinal pattern in the seasonality of the drought impacts. Higher intensity, duration, and seasonality of drought effects were observed for P. sylvestris in areas. View this paper
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Articles (188)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,465 Views
13 Pages

16 September 2022

Understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality is popular topic in ecological research. Although scale is an important factor driving changes in biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality, we still know little...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,380 Views
15 Pages

16 September 2022

Tilia amurensis Rupr. is a crucial species widely used in our life, because its wood is easy to process due to its low specific gravity and good elasticity. To understand the effect of the latitudinal gradients on T. amurensis metabolites profiles, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,559 Views
16 Pages

16 September 2022

Cremastraappendiculata (Orchidaceae) is a perennial medicinal herb, which is included in the national second-class protected plant catalog in China. Due to the influences of climate change and anthropogenic activities, in conjunction with soaring com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,202 Views
15 Pages

16 September 2022

Tree resistance to uprooting can be estimated as the critical turning moment in tree-pulling experiments. The depth at the center point of rotation (Dcp) in tree-pulling experiments is measured as an indicator of below-ground traits and is related to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,853 Views
14 Pages

The New EU Forest Strategy for 2030—An Analysis of Major Interests

  • Evgenia Gordeeva,
  • Norbert Weber and
  • Bernhard Wolfslehner

16 September 2022

The New European Union Forest Strategy for 2030 has been controversially discussed by all relevant interest groups: member states, forest owners, forest-related industry, environmental NGOs. The analysis reveals two central conflicts characterizing t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,061 Views
16 Pages

Temporal Changes in Growth–Climate Relationship of Pinus taiwanensis Hayata in Subtropical China

  • Hanxue Liang,
  • Zhou Wang,
  • Shaowei Jiang,
  • Cun Zhang and
  • Jianguo Huang

16 September 2022

Whether the tree growth–climate relationship is consistent in subtropical China has not yet been reported. To fill this gap, we chose Pinus taiwanensis which grow on Lushan Mountain in a subtropical region of China as the target tree species, e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,315 Views
20 Pages

Mid-Term Natural Regeneration of Pinus halepensis Mill. after Post-Fire Treatments in South-Eastern Spain

  • Mehdi Navidi,
  • Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja,
  • Pedro Antonio Plaza-Álvarez,
  • Bruno Gianmarco Carra,
  • Misagh Parhizkar and
  • Demetrio Antonio Zema

16 September 2022

Straw mulching and salvage logging are common management techniques after forest wildfires. However, these post-fire actions may result in an additional disturbance in burned soils, which may hamper the natural regeneration of forest species, especia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,801 Views
18 Pages

Effects of Pine Plantation on Native Ecuadorian Páramo Vegetation

  • Byron Medina-Torres,
  • Mathieu Jonard,
  • Melina Rendón and
  • Anne-Laure Jacquemart

16 September 2022

Exotic pine plantations, installed mainly for timber production and carbon sequestration purposes, cover an ever-expanding area of equatorial and tropical regions; however, their economic and environmental benefits are under debate due to their poten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,736 Views
16 Pages

Discussion of the Distribution Pattern and Driving Factors of 2 Large Old Tree Resources in Beijing

  • Qingcheng Fu,
  • Erfa Qiu,
  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Lanhong Huang,
  • Huichao Wang and
  • Shasha Jiang

16 September 2022

Known as “living fossils”, large old trees play an important role in ecology, landscape, and culture and are an important part of ecosystems and human settlements. The aim of this paper is to provide suggestions for the protection of urba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,565 Views
13 Pages

The Influence of Physical Treatments on Seed Germination and Seedling Development of Spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.)

  • Steluța-Maria Sîngeorzan,
  • Liviu Holonec,
  • Alina M. Truta,
  • Irina M. Morar,
  • Catalina Dan,
  • Alexandru Colișar,
  • Oana Viman,
  • Cornel Negrușier,
  • Orsolya Borsai and
  • Horia Criveanu
  • + 2 authors

15 September 2022

The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of an electric field and gamma radiation upon the germination of spruce seeds. In order to carry out the research, spruce seeds from different provenances have been subjected to different trea...

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