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Forests, Volume 16, Issue 5

May 2025 - 159 articles

Cover Story: Mangrove forests per unit area are the most productive vascular plants on earth, occupying the crucial interface between land and sea. Until recently, there have been very few estimates of mangrove gross primary production. Wood and roots constitute a large proportion of total mangrove net primary production. Wood production is high for many species, sufficient to warrant sustainable plantation logging. The production of belowground roots assists in sediment formation and surface elevation gain, making significant contributions to carbon burial and decomposition. These forests are net autotrophic, storing large amounts of sediment carbon. Thus, mangroves contribute both locally and regionally to carbon accumulation (‘blue carbon’), placing these ecosystems at the forefront of climate change mitigation and carbon accounting mechanisms. View this paper
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Articles (159)

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
862 Views
12 Pages

21 May 2025

Variation patterns in plant functional traits and their interrelationships play a crucial role in understanding species coexistence mechanisms and ecological differentiation within local plant communities. However, the dynamic patterns of plant funct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
647 Views
17 Pages

21 May 2025

Forest ecosystem services are crucial for sustaining ecological balance and supporting human well-being. This study quantified and analyzed ecosystem services—carbon storage, water conservation, and productivity—across four developmental...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,005 Views
18 Pages

21 May 2025

This study develops an optimized approach for small-scale forest area extraction in mountainous regions by integrating Landsat multispectral and ALOS PALSAR-2 radar data through threshold-based classification methods. The threshold fusion method prop...

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  • Open Access
695 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Different Vegetation Types on Soil Quality in Golden Huacha (Camellia petelotii) National Nature Reserve

  • Yong Jiang,
  • Sheng Xu,
  • Weiwei Gu,
  • Siqi Wu,
  • Jian Qiu,
  • Wenxu Zhu and
  • Nanyan Liao

21 May 2025

Natural and planted forests differentially regulate soil quality through vegetation–soil interactions. The effects of four types of planting covers on soil nutrients, enzyme activities, and microbial communities in the Guangxi Camellia nitidiss...

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  • Open Access
639 Views
14 Pages

21 May 2025

The paper presents changes in the color and acidity of beech wood with false heartwood in the process of pressure steaming at the temperature interval t = 105 °C and 125 °C during τ = 6 to 24 h. The light white-gray color of sapwood with...

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  • Open Access
678 Views
19 Pages

Genome-Wide Resequencing Revealed the Genetic Diversity of Fraxinus platypoda Oliv. in Northwestern China

  • Ying Liu,
  • Wanting Ge,
  • Qiuling Zhao,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Xiaolong Guo and
  • Wenjun Ma

21 May 2025

Fraxinus platypoda Oliv. (Oleaceae), an ecologically and economically valuable tree species with key distribution areas in northwestern China, faces conservation challenges due to its fragmented groups and scarce individual numbers. To investigate th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,652 Views
19 Pages

A Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Early Forest Fire Detection

  • Akhror Mamadmurodov,
  • Sabina Umirzakova,
  • Mekhriddin Rakhimov,
  • Alpamis Kutlimuratov,
  • Zavqiddin Temirov,
  • Rashid Nasimov,
  • Azizjon Meliboev,
  • Akmalbek Abdusalomov and
  • Young Im Cho

21 May 2025

Forest fires pose an escalating global threat, severely impacting ecosystems, public health, and economies. Timely detection, especially during early stages, is critical for effective intervention. In this study, we propose a novel deep learning-base...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
841 Views
10 Pages

Foraging Guilds of Birds in Continuous and Fragmented Forests of Southeast China

  • Yuan Wang,
  • Jiawen Liu,
  • Shuai Gao,
  • Sichun Tong,
  • Zheng Wang and
  • Ning Li

21 May 2025

Habitat fragmentation is one of the main factors leading to changes in bird foraging behavior. Therefore, studying bird diversity, foraging groups, and spatial utilization in fragmented habitats is of great significance for forest bird conservation....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,157 Views
14 Pages

21 May 2025

This study aimed to analyze changes in water retention conservation in response to climate change and forest management strategies and to propose methods for securing sustainable water resources. The KO-G-Dynamic model, a Korean forest growth model,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
609 Views
17 Pages

21 May 2025

The aim of this study was to determine the influence of initial chain tension, feed force, and wood hardness on the variability of the cutter’s deflection angle during petrol chainsaw operation. Cutting wood with a chainsaw is a complex process...

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