Forests, Volume 16, Issue 4

Green belts, consisting mainly of natural forests, woodlands, and agricultural areas surrounding major cities, play an essential role in regulating urban development and controlling the expansion of metropolitan areas. Although this concept has been...

Using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to recognize forest fires in complex outdoor environments is a hot research direction in the field of intelligent forest fire recognition. Due to the storage-intensive and computing-intensive characteristics...

Canker disease caused by Corinectria constricta has resulted in significant losses of Pinus radiata for the Chilean forestry industry in recent years. Accurate and prompt detection and identification of the pathogen is essential in this context. In t...

Factors such as climate change, fire, and overgrazing have been commonly considered the main causes of the global expansion of shrub invasion in grasslands over the past 160 years. Nevertheless, the influence of soil substrates on the progression of...

Drought threatens the stability of artificial black locust forests on the Loess Plateau, yet there is limited research on the physiological and metabolic responses of mature black locust to drought stress. This study employed a throughfall exclusion...

Forestry heritage tourism can spread the ecological concept of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, and it is a nature-based solution to climate change. However, how tourists are guided to form an emotional identity and how their attenti...

This study investigated the effects of thermal modification treatment on flattened bamboo lumber by using temperature (180 °C, 190 °C, 200 °C) and duration (2, 3, 4 h) as experimental variables. The physicochemical properties, crystallini...

Accurate fire risk assessment in forested terrain is crucial for effective disaster management and ecological conservation. This study innovatively proposes a novel framework that integrates Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) with deep learning techniqu...

The color of the walnut seed coat is a critical determinant of its market value; however, research into the mechanisms responsible for seed coat color formation is yet to be determined. Using two walnut clones with contrasting pale-yellow and light p...

Vertical structure monitoring of urban vegetation provides data support for urban green space planning and ecological management, playing a significant role in promoting sustainable urban ecological development. Three-dimensional green volume (3DGV)...