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Forests, Volume 16, Issue 10

October 2025 - 114 articles

Cover Story: A sharp escalation in wildfire frequency, severity, and scale across the western United States underscores the need to create forests that are resilient to future disturbances. One reforestation approach involves clustering trees into groups of two to four, rather than establishing evenly spaced plantations, to increase structural heterogeneity and emulate natural regeneration patterns. In Eldorado National Forest in the Sierra Nevada, we compared growth and structure among several post-fire plantations—treated with and without pre-commercial thinning (PCT)—and naturally regenerating stands. Using mixed-effects models, we tested for growth and structural differences between evenly spaced and clustered plantations, as well as between plantations and naturally regenerating trees. View this paper
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Articles (114)

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  • Open Access
711 Views
26 Pages

21 October 2025

The rapidly expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in recent years presents significant opportunities for achieving sustainable, clean, and safe environmental objectives. This study aims to comprehensively examine the potential us...

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  • Open Access
663 Views
22 Pages

21 October 2025

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-captured RGB imagery, with high spatial resolution and ease of acquisition, is increasingly applied to individual tree crown detection (ITCD). However, ITCD in dense subtropical forests remains challenging due to overlap...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
710 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2025

In recent years, drone-based wildfire detection technology has advanced rapidly, yet existing methods still encounter numerous challenges. For instance, high background complexity leads to frequent false positives and false negatives in models, which...

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  • Open Access
832 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2025

Mangroves are important blue carbon coastal ecosystems and play a crucial role in mitigating global climate change. However, fine spatial patterns of mangrove biomass carbon hotspots and protection gaps in Guangdong have not been quantified. In this...

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  • Open Access
713 Views
29 Pages

Assessing Anthropogenic Impacts on the Carbon Sink Dynamics in Tropical Lowland Rainforest Using Multiple Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study of Jianfengling, China

  • Shijie Mao,
  • Mingjiang Mao,
  • Wenfeng Gong,
  • Yuxin Chen,
  • Yixi Ma,
  • Renhao Chen,
  • Miao Wang,
  • Xiaoxiao Zhang,
  • Jinming Xu and
  • Lingbing Wu

20 October 2025

Aboveground biomass (AGB) is a key indicator of forest structure and carbon sequestration, yet its dynamics under concurrent anthropogenic disturbances remain poorly understood. This study investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics and driving mechanis...

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  • Open Access
653 Views
17 Pages

20 October 2025

In this study, we developed three forest management scenarios for Simcoe County Forest in Southern Ontario, Canada, using the Physiological Principles Predicting Growth (3-PG) model to simulate future forest growth and carbon dynamics. The focus was...

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  • Open Access
771 Views
28 Pages

Forest Cover in the Congo Basin: Consistency Evaluation of Seven Datasets

  • Solène Renaudineau,
  • Frédéric Frappart,
  • Marc Peaucelle,
  • Valentine Sollier,
  • Jean-Pierre Wigneron,
  • Philippe Ciais and
  • Bertrand Ygorra

20 October 2025

Tropical forests play an essential role in the carbon and water cycles of terrestrial ecosystems, but they are increasingly threatened by human activities and climate change. For places where ground observations are scarce, like in Equatorial Africa,...

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  • Open Access
523 Views
19 Pages

20 October 2025

In cool temperate regions, soil respiration (Rs) data collected during the cold season is limited due to freezing and snow. This leads to a lack of understanding of Rs characteristics during the cold season and for ecosystems with long winters, it ca...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
665 Views
19 Pages

20 October 2025

Indocalamus tessellatus (Munro) P. C. Keng is a bamboo species with significant economic and ecological value, and exhibits considerable resistance to abiotic stresses. However, systematic evaluation of reference genes for gene expression analysis in...

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  • Open Access
700 Views
19 Pages

Unexpected Long-Term Forest Experiments: A Case on the Island of Porto Santo, Madeira

  • Leónia Nunes,
  • Natália Nunes,
  • Sara Freitas and
  • Francisco Castro Rego

20 October 2025

The aim of this study was to assess the long-term adaptation and growth performance of 50 species introduced in 1991 on the island of Porto Santo, Madeira Archipelago, in order to guide afforestation and soil restoration under the island’s arid...

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