Forests, Volume 16, Issue 5

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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...