Forests, Volume 14, Issue 10

In recent years, after the implementation of large-scale ecological restoration projects, karst areas in the South China Karst have become global “greening” hot spots. However, the biodiversity, ecosystem quality, and security patterns in...

Many protected wild animal species are threatened with extinction because of degraded forest habitats. We conducted a monetary assessment of social responses to this issue in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Respondents were asked to determine a monetary v...

Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm. is a tripartite, broad-lobed foliose lichen usually found on bark and on epiphytic and epilithic mosses in humid forests. Currently, the species is threatened in most European countries because of its sensitivity to env...

We aimed to study the effects of mycorrhizal and extraradical hyphae on soil physical and chemical properties and enzyme activity characteristics in a subtropical plantation and to explore its indicative effect on the effectiveness of soil nutrients....

Habitat heterogeneity caused by topographic variations at the local scale is the environmental basis for the establishment and evolution of biodiversity and biomass patterns. The similarities and distinctions between the effects of microtopographic v...

The policy of payments for environmental services is implemented in public policies in Brazil, and there are many efforts to increase projects that subsidize rural producers, combining payments with incentives for good agricultural practices that pro...

Given the complex influence of various factors on soil nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) loss through runoff in a karst environment, analyzing the importance of different factors to determine the most efficient method for soil nutrient conservation rem...

Pine wilt disease has caused great economic loss and become an ecological threat since it was introduced into East Asia. In China, Pinus massoniana Lamb. is highly susceptible. The pathogenic of this disease is linked to the invasion of P. massoniana...

Nutrient recycling is one of the most important services that supports other processes in ecosystems. Changing litterfall patterns induced by climate change can cause imbalances in nutrient availability. In this study, we reported the long-term (28-y...

The rapid socio-economic development and urbanization in China have led to a decline in air quality. Therefore, the spatial and temporal distribution patterns of urban air pollution, as well as its formation mechanisms and influencing factors, have b...

In order to improve the flame-retardant properties of bamboo scrimber, chitosan (CS) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) were used as the film-forming substances, and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) was used as the flame-retardant substance to prepare h-BN fl...

Environmental stresses can disrupt protein structure, resulting in unfolded or misfolded proteins, thereby triggering endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. The unfolded protein response (UPR), particularly as activated by Arabidopsis AtbZIP60 gene, is p...

Our study aimed to assess the impacts of varying forest gap sizes on the density, growth, and spatial patterns of seedlings and saplings in spruce (Picea asperata) forests in the Saihanba region, Hebei Province, China. Twenty-four forest gaps were su...

The plant phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein (PEBP) gene family plays important roles in regulating flowering time and vegetative growth. Compared with its parents, Liriodendron hybrids (Liriodendron chinense (Hemsl.) Sarg. × L. tulipifer...

Disturbances have created heterogeneous habitats for secondary and old-growth forests. Under the assumption that ecologically similar species have similar functional traits, numerous studies have attempted to use trait-based approaches to infer the a...

The hydraulic system is a key component of intelligent forestry harvesters. In the testing of a forestry harvester, researchers need to analyze the operating efficiency and energy consumption of the forestry harvester based on the pressure and flow r...

Forest gaps play an important role in species regeneration and forest succession. Gap size has a primary influence on tree species coexistence and community assembly along an elevation gradient. In this study, we evaluated the regeneration and coexis...

As an integral part of urban forests, urban parks play a vital role in mitigating urban heat islands (UHI) and providing residents with comfortable outdoor recreational plots. For high-quality use of the trees in regulating the thermal comfort of urb...

Breeding long-lived trees is challenging, but it has been shown that genomic information can be used to improve efficiency. In this study, genomic prediction (GP) was tested on selected individuals of a two-generation breeding population of Cryptomer...

Restoring current ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. Ex P. and C. Laws)-dominated forests (also known as “dry forests”) to spatially resilient stand structures requires an adequate understanding of the overstory spatial variation of f...

The increasing level of atmospheric carbon dioxide and its effects on our climate system has become a global environment issue. The forest ecosystem is essential for the stability of carbon in the atmosphere as it operates as a carbon sink and provid...

This study investigated the effects of adhesive resination and bamboo strand content on the physical and mechanical properties of thick Bamboo-Wood-oriented strand board (BWOSB), such as the air dry density (ADD), internal bond strength (IB), water a...

Human-caused anthropogenic greenhouse emissions impact the climate globally. In this pilot study, we aim to reveal the influence of hydrocarbon emissions on pine forests by applying a stable carbon isotope analysis in pine tree rings (δ¹³C_ptrw)...

Changes in age structure, spatial distribution and intraspecific interactions across environmental gradients often reflect adaptations of plant populations to their environment. Our study explored the growth status of the Picea schrenkiana population...

As population growth and urbanization continue to accelerate, city dwellers are increasingly conscious of the demand for urban green space (UGS) and the ecosystem services (ESs) it provides. Great efforts are made for the supply of certain ESs in UGS...

Forest management decisions affect carbon stock and rates of sequestration. One subject of debate is the rotation age that will optimize sequestration over extended periods. Some argue that shorter rotations facilitate greater sequestration rates due...

Forest fires are major forestry disasters that cause loss of forest resources, forest ecosystem safety, and personal injury. It is often difficult for current forest fire detection models to achieve high detection accuracy on both large and small tar...

Jatropha curcas is widely planted as a highly drought-resistant biodiesel feedstock. Curcin protein is one of the Jatropha ribosomal inactivation proteins with broad-spectrum antifungal activity that may enter the soil ecosystem as a result of large-...

To effectively combat climate change and put plans in place to enhance the health and quality of forests, research on the connections between long-term climate change and tree ring width is essential. Here, Pinus densiflora Siebold & Zucc. and Ro...

Fungal communities are primary decomposers of detritus, including coarse woody debris (CWD). We investigated the succession of fungal decomposer communities in CWD through different stages of decay in the wide-ranging and early successional tree spec...

Event flow characteristics were evaluated based on temperature and level of stream water in 22 forested catchments (area: 13.2–281.4 ha) to investigate sustainable flood management measures. Temperature and stream water levels were during 346 r...

Little is known regarding the effects of prescribed burning on soil water infiltration and soil physical properties in Western Gulf Coast forests dominated by longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), shortleaf pine (P. echinata), or loblolly pine (P. taeda)....

Leaf area index (LAI) stands as a pivotal parameter for the quantitative assessment of vegetation growth dynamics, and the rapid acquisition of the effective leaf area index (LAIe) in different scales is crucial for forest ecological monitoring. In t...

High temperature and drought are the main factors restricting the increase in Camellia oleifera Abel production that can seriously harm its physiological and biochemical functions. This study aimed to explore the effect by which Ca²⁺ enhances the dro...

Monitoring water consumption dynamics across the geographic range of an ecosystem may indicate the possible variation and stress in a biome. Here, model output data based on remote sensing (1979–2022) were used to examine the water consumption...

Wildland fires, a natural calamity, pose a significant threat to both human lives and the environment while causing extensive economic damage. As the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with computer vision in disaster management continues to grow...

This article showcases the outcomes of a comprehensive spatiotemporal dynamic analysis conducted in forest vegetation areas within the forest-steppe zone of the Central Russian Upland (eastern Europe), spanning the period from 1970 to 2020. This stud...

Although they are a valuable edible ectomycorrhizal fungus, truffles (Tuber spp.) nevertheless face significant difficulties in the development of their scale. As a type of high economic value nut-like economic forest tree, the pecan (Carya illinoine...

We investigated fungal communities in oak wounds to determine how fungal species richness and community composition changes depending on the age of wounds. The sampling of wood cores was carried out from 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-year-old wounds. Th...

Chestnut, Castanea sativa Miller (Fagales: Fagaceae), is an ecologically and economically important tree species of the forest ecosystem in Southern Europe, North-Western Europe, Western Asia, North Africa, and the Caucasus. The distributional range...

Cinnamomum migao H. W. Li is an evergreen woody plant that is only distributed in southwest China. The volatile oils from the fruits of C. migao have long been used as a special authentic medicinal herb by local ethnic minorities. Due to its low seed...

Norway Spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.), a timber species of significant economic and ecological importance in the Northern Hemisphere, faces increasing threats imposed by drought and bark beetle infestation intensified by ongoing climate change....

Poplar (Poplus spp.) is an important forest species widely distributed in China of great significance in identifying factors that clearly influence its growth rate in order to achieve effective control of poplar growth. In this study, we selected 16...

Our study focused on quantifying available forage and the conditions for avoiding predation provided within the home ranges of Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus). We conducted transect surveys in both winter and summer–autumn home ranges of...

To improve the estimation accuracy of wood density and study the linear correlation between drill feed resistance and wood density, a new micro drill instrument prototype that can simultaneously measure the rotation resistance and feed resistance of...

The extracellular enzyme activity (EEA) and enzymatic stoichiometry (EES) of soil are useful indicators of shifts in soil nutrition and microbial resource requirements. Nevertheless, it is uncertain how the limitation of soil microbial nutrients is a...

We aimed to explore the effect of strip cutting width on the physical and mechanical properties of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis). Four-year-old hairy bamboo with different cutting bandwidths (3 m, 5 m, 8 m, 12 m and 15 m) was used as the experim...

Cycas (family Cycadaceae), which spread throughout tropical and subtropical regions, is crucial in conservation biology. Due to subtle morphological variations between species, a solid species-level phylogeny for Cycas is lacking. In the present stud...

Thinning can improve soil nutrient supply, but the effects of thinning on soil phosphorus (P) contents and bioavailable mechanisms in high-density and short-rotation Eucalyptus coppice forests are not well reported. Therefore, we conducted five inten...

The MYB transcription factor family is one of the largest families of plant transcription factors (TFs), and it plays a vital role in the entire process of a plant’s growth and development. Well known in China, Eucommia ulmoides (E. ulmoides) p...