Forests, Volume 14, Issue 5

The physiological and biochemical indicators of plants reflect the plant’s adaptation to environmental changes and provide information for the planting and management of acid-resistant tree species. To analyze the responses of typical tree spec...

Competition indices may improve tree growth modelling in high-density stands, found often in new cork oak plantations. Distance-dependent competition indices have hardly been considered for juvenile cork oak plantations since existing models were dev...

The defining feature of each forest is the organism that humanity generically designates as ‘tree’ [...]

The benefits and services of urban forests are becoming increasingly well documented, with carbon storage being the main focus of attention. Recent efforts in urban remote sensing have incorporated additional data such as LiDAR data but have been lim...

The three-dimensional corner joint is a type of joint in wooden furniture structures with complex parameter relationships and many constraints. Traditional furniture structure design requires repeated modifications of geometric models to determine pa...

The objective of this work was to study the influence of palm oil on the VOCs emitted during the heat treatment of Afromosia (Pericopsis Elata Van Meeuwen) and Newtonia (Newtonia paucijuga Harms) wood by comparing to the VOCs emitted during the heat...

An ecological public welfare forest is an important basis for the construction of national ecological security. This study took public welfare forests at the provincial level or above in Hunan Province as the research object. Based on the in situ mon...

To address the problem that traditional deep learning algorithms cannot fully utilize the correlation properties between spectral sequence information and the feature differences between different spectra, this paper proposes a parallel network archi...

How climate change affects the plants on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) has become a hot research topic in recent years. It was widely recognized that Larix. are sensitive to climate change, while the corresponding research of Larix. on the QTP has...

Pine wilt disease (PWD) is regarded as one of the most serious conifer diseases affecting pines worldwide. To date, an in-depth study of the driving mechanisms behind short-distance PWD spread is lacking. In this study, we collected PWD forest subcom...

While the statistical properties of images are vital in forestry engineering, the usefulness of these properties in various forestry tasks may vary, and certain image properties might not be enough to adequately describe a particular tree species. To...

To accelerate breeding of Pinus massoniana Lamb. resistance to pine wilt disease (PWD), caused by the pinewood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, a protocol was established for the in vitro propagation of P. massoniana and the evaluation of...

With the scarcity of wood resources and calls for “substituting bamboo for wood” and “substituting bamboo for plastic”, bamboo has gained greater popularity for its abundant reserves and outstanding mechanical properties. Howe...

With the development of computer vision technology, its applications in forestry are steadily becoming wider. To address the problems of inconvenience in transporting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well as the complex operation of large instrume...

Understanding the climatically suitable habitat of species plays a vital role in the sustainable use and management of target species. Calligonum mongolicum Turcz., a native shrub species found in desert areas of Central Asia, is generally considered...

The Faustmann formula, equivalent to the land expectation value (LEV), yields the present value, starting with bare land, of an infinite series of future timber rotations for a stand. If this formula is used to find the rotation age that maximizes th...

Pleioblastus ovatoauritus T.H.Wen ex W.Y.Zhang is bamboo species published in 2018, originated from and existing in southeastern China. The chloroplast genome of Pl. ovatoauritus was obtained using a high-throughput sequencing platform. The chloropla...

Building and updating tree inventories is a challenging task for city administrators, requiring significant costs and the expertise of tree identification specialists. In Ecuador, only the Trees Inventory of Cuenca (TIC) contains this information, ge...

Subtropical montane moist evergreen broadleaf forests (MMEBFs) have a unique environmental envelope harboring a high percentage of endemic biota. This ecosystem is highly vulnerable, and little is known about its possible response to future climate c...

Afforestation is a good strategy for climate change mitigation through increasing carbon stocks. This study determined changes in soil respiration (SR) brought about by the afforestation of high quality agricultural land in a temperate-humid region (...

Bending of solid wood from European oak is one of the most demanding technological processes due to its specific structural and physical properties and variability. We investigated the influence of wood moisture content (MC) and stiffness, determined...

Araucaria angustifolia is an endangered species with more than 97% of its natural populations extinct. Logging of the species in the few remaining natural populations is highly restricted, though not readily accepted by farmers and logging companies....

Throughout the long history of urban expansion and development, some of the natural mountains, lakes, and rivers that were once located on the outskirts of a city have gradually been encircled within it and have become nature in the urban, i.e., they...

With the comprehensive emissions of fossil fuel combustion and transportation waste gas, the concentrations of nitrogen oxides (NO_X) in the environmental atmosphere increase significantly, leading to nitric acid rain (NAR) pollution. However, the eff...

Arborists commonly investigate the extent of stem decay to assess the likelihood of stem failure when conducting tree risk assessments. Studies have shown that: (i) arborists can sometimes judge the extent of internal decay based on external signs; (...

Seedling species with different architectures, e.g., mean leaf angles, are often subjected to the same irrigation management in forest nurseries, resulting in wasted water and fertilizer and reduced seedling quality. We aimed to evaluate whether irri...

The likelihood of branch union failure often needs to be assessed in tree risk assessment. Most of the guidance used in practice is based on the shape of these forks, specifically the shape (“U” or “V”), the angle between the...

Desired retention and depth into wood are necessary for wood preservatives to provide long-term durability. In general, heartwood of wood is difficult to treat, and bioincising was investigated as a potential technique to improve the treatability of...

The intermittent hole-digging tree-planting machine shows a periodic short-time peak load law in planting operation, and the operation process is “idling” for small loads most of the time, leading to large torque fluctuations in the trans...

Forestry workers endure highly physical workloads. Japanese forestry workers experience additional up-and-down movements due to geographical features. Fatigue is a common cause of injury. This pilot study aimed to determine an appropriate method for...

To date, there has been limited knowledge about how soil carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from forest ecosystems at a global scale respond to the altered precipitation, and the key influencing mechanisms involved. Thirty-seven studies conducted under t...

The goal of this study is to find out how some properties of wood–polymer nanocomposites are affected by the processing technology, the nanomaterials, and the ratio of coupling agents. To achieve this objective, the extruded and dry blended sam...

Cellulose synthase (CESA) is a key enzyme in the synthesis of cellulose, which plays an important role in cell wall construction and plant growth and development. In this study, seven CesA genes of P. massoniana were identified by searching the trans...

The Cloud Ocean phenomenon in the Hyrcanian Forests, listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List, is one of the most stunning yet lesser-known ecotourism destinations that has recently attracted the attention of adventure tours. However, the increasing...

Background: Although access to nature is demonstrated to benefit health and wellbeing, adults with mobility impairments and/or low energy often face barriers in accessing nature environments and nature-based programs. This study aimed to examine the...

The eastern Tianshan Mountains are located in the arid interior of Asia, where tree growth is especially sensitive to climate. The ratio of stable carbon isotopes (δ¹³C) in the tree rings can provide information on changes in atmospheric CO₂ co...

Conservation areas are essential for preserving green spaces and biological diversity. Although previous studies have demonstrated that spatial optimization techniques are effective for balancing the relationship between ecological importance and spa...

Camellia oleifera C.Abel, commonly known as tea-oil camellia, is a type of significant woody oil crop that is widely cultivated in southern China. During 2017–2021, a fungal foliar disease was detected in routine surveys in Hainan. However, dis...

Foreign trade belongs among the main sources of economic growth as classical theories of international trade affirm. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the impact of trade balance flows on sectors generating different value-added in the wood-based i...

Basin ecosystems are vulnerable to natural resource depletion, ecological damage, and environmental pollution due to their fragile natural environment. Assessing the value of basin ecosystem services (ES) can facilitate informed decision making by po...

Stumps are a significant component of coarse woody debris in plantations, but their effect on microsite soil organic carbon (C) and enzyme activities remains understudied. Soil (Alfisol) samples were collected at varying distances from larch (Larix o...

The accurate estimation of bark thickness is important for foresters for several reasons. It is crucial for timber volume estimation and can help improve the quality of forestry records, and bark has a growing commercial importance as a high-value bi...

Forest bathing was proposed in Japan in 1982 for the purpose of reducing stress and health management, and research on the health promotion and disease prevention effects of forest bathing began in Japan in 2004. Since then, the author’s resear...

A review of papers related to cambium activity and wood formation in tropical and subtropical trees and their response to climate in South America, tropical Africa, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Asia reveals a complex picture of the factors that infl...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) strongly contributes to the operation of the global carbon cycling, and topographical factors largely influence its spatial distribution. However, SOC distribution and its leading topographical impact factors in subtropical...

Zanthoxylum armatum (Z. armatum) leaves represent more than 50% of by-products with promising potential applications, and there are still largely unknown variations in chemical composition and antioxidant activity in its leaves. In the present study,...

Fire-retardant (FR) treated wood-based panels, used commonly in furniture and construction, need to meet stringent fire safety regulations. This study presents a novel treatment for imparting fire resistance to wood composites by applying separate so...

This paper presents a visualization algorithm for wood fracture simulation based on wood science and wood internal structure reconstruction. The algorithm can simulate a reasonable and realistic wood fracture effect. First, the 3D point-cloud data of...

Platycladus orientalis and Amorpha fruticosa are important pioneer species in arid and semi-arid regions, playing a crucial role in ecological restoration in water-limited areas. The purpose of this research was to examine how different watering and...

Heterobasidion spp. are among the most destructive root rot pathogens, causing severe economic losses to conifer forestry. High infection frequency has been observed in Scots pine stands growing on dry sandy soils with low organic matter or former ag...