2025 August - 160 articles
Human activities undoubtedly increase greenhouse gases (GHG), negatively influencing global climate change. The building and construction sector uses at least 40% of the total energy consumption and produces the same percentage of GHG emissions. Ther...
Understanding the integration of newly recorded species into forest ecosystems is essential for evaluating their ecological impacts on native wildlife diversity. In this study, we examined the spatial and temporal niche dynamics of three sympatric sq...
Climate change poses significant threats to urban tree health and survival worldwide. This study evaluates climate suitability risks for 12 common tree species in Wuhan, a Chinese metropolis facing escalating climate challenges. We analyzed risk dyna...
The Mass Ratio Hypothesis states that the growth dynamics of dominant species influence forest species diversity by regulating the niches of subordinate and transient species. However, this prediction has not yet been empirical confirmed in subtropic...
Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii (Rupr.) Herder) and wintercreeper (Euonymus fortunei (Turcz.) Hand.-Maz.) are important invasive plants in Midwestern U.S. forests. We studied how two herbicides at two concentrations combined with three concentrati...
Urban expressway interchanges, though primarily engineered for traffic efficiency, also serve as crucial ecological nodes within urban landscapes. This study evaluates the ecological functions of arborous vegetation across four typical interchange co...
The NAC gene family, as a group of plant-specific transcription factors, plays crucial roles in plant growth, development, abiotic stress regulation, and biosynthesis of medicinal components. However, research on this family in the medicinal true man...
The APETALA2/Ethylene Responsive Factor (AP2/ERF transcription factor) family plays pivotal roles in plant growth, stress responses, and metabolic regulation. Here, we identified 118 AP2/ERF family members in the apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) genome,...
Skidding is one of the most important methods for wood extraction globally, necessitating updated models to assess its performance based on the technical characteristics of the fleet in use. Based on a nation-wide, all-season dataset, this paper aime...
This study presents the Wood Protection Sustainability Index (WPSI), a novel decision-support tool aimed at evaluating wood preservatives utilized in Chile and facilitating a shift toward more sustainable wood protection practices. WPSI encompasses f...
This study aimed to examine how biochar and Acacia species would affect biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) and water use efficiency (WUE) of understorey Acacia species as well as soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) pools 15 months after biochar applicat...
Climate change has intensified the frequency and severity of forest disturbances globally, including windthrow, which poses substantial risks for both forest productivity and ecosystem stability. Rapid and precise assessment of wind-induced tree dama...
Leaf litter conservation practices in forests can contribute to increasing CO2 storage in natural soils as organic matter; however, this process depends on the type of vegetation cover. This study, using different approaches, aimed to assess this pro...
Accurate registration of multi-platform light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point clouds is essential for detailed forest structure analysis and ecological monitoring. In this study, we developed a novel two-stage method for aligning terrestrial and...
The endangered mangrove Scyphiphora hydrophyllacea is found in China only in Hainan’s intertidal zones. Its populations are declining severely due to anthropogenic disturbances and regeneration failure. To clarify its environmental adaptation m...
Forest fires pose a significant threat to human life and property. The early detection of smoke and flames can significantly reduce the damage caused by forest fires to human society. This article presents an SFGI-YOLO model based on YOLO11n, which d...
The development of overstory vegetation can considerably influence the composition and dynamics of herbaceous layer vegetation. However, the type of ecological processes underlying these changes remain poorly understood. We aimed to analyze changes i...
In the context of the “Dual Carbon” goals and ecological civilization development, enhancing forestry ecological total factor productivity (FETFP) has become vital for advancing green development and environmental governance. Confronted w...
As an important input parameter of the ecological network, the accuracy and detail with which forest cover is extracted directly constrain the accuracy of forest ecological network construction. The development of medium- and high-resolution remote s...
Globally, the accelerating aging of the rural labor force is profoundly impacting the economic resilience of the labor-intensive forestry sector. However, the intrinsic connection between the two has not been fully understood and requires further exp...
This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the population structures, anatomical adaptations, and chloroplast genome organizations of three rare tree species—Fraxinus sogdiana Bunge, Celtis caucasica Willd., and Betula jarmolenkoana Golo...
It is of great importance to study the spatiotemporal variation in vegetation and its influencing factors at a regional scale in plateau mountainous cities for ecological restoration and management and maintenance of ecosystem stability. This study e...
Compound fertilizer is generally applied to alleviate multi-nutrient deficiency problems in forest stands, but research on the effect of fertilizer application on soil CO2 efflux (Rs) processes has focused on the role of single-nitrogen (N) applicati...
Forest litter plays a critical role in regulating the water balance of forest ecosystems, particularly in semi-arid regions where hydrological stability is under pressure due to climate change. This study investigates the maximum water holding capaci...
The results of a recent palynological study of the Kulikovo section (southeastern Baltic) allow us to elaborate on issues of the presence of pollen from the “thermophilous” trees (Picea, Alnus, Corylus, Ulmus, Quercus, Tilia, Fraxinus) in...
Photosynthesis in higher plants is highly sensitive to drought and salinity. While studies have examined the individual effects of drought or salt stress on photosynthesis, their combined impact remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigat...
The rapid detection and confirmation of Suspicious Regions of Forest Fire (SRoFF) are critical for timely alerts and firefighting operations. In the early stages of forest fires, small flames and heavy occlusion lead to low accuracy, false detections...
Anthropogenic disturbances interact with wildfire, altering successional dynamics across North America’s boreal forest. Linear disturbances, including seismic lines used for oil and gas exploration, dissect forests, while wildfire is a fundamen...
Understanding the mechanisms governing forest community assembly across different growth stages is essential for revealing succession dynamics and guiding forest restoration. While much attention has been given to overstory trees, the understory rege...
Temperate forest ecosystems in Korea are currently undergoing a successional transition from Pinus densiflora Siebold & Zucc. (evergreen conifer) communities to Quercus mongolica Fisch. ex Ledeb. (deciduous broadleaf) communities. This study aime...
The cumulative impact of decades of oil and gas exploration has left Alberta’s boreal forests densely fragmented by seismic lines, which are expected to naturally regenerate; however, recovery is often highly variable and generally poor in peat...
Geospatial sensing and data-driven technologies (GSDDTs) are playing an increasingly important role in transforming (agro)forestry practices across the Western Balkans 6 region (WB6). This review critically examines the current state of GSDDT applica...
Wood recognition plays a vital role in the trade and conservation of rare wood species. However, the computer vision-based methods classify the wood species by the features that are not used within the framework of wood anatomy, leading to results th...
Converting monoculture forests into mixed forests is a widely adopted strategy to enhance forest ecosystem quality. Soil enzyme activities and their stoichiometric ratios are acknowledged as critical indicators of nutrient cycling and ecosystem multi...
Traditional Forest Management Plans (FMPs), which often span hundreds of pages on paper, present significant challenges due to their extensive length and lack of clear spatiotemporal context. This study aimed to integrate complex data from FMPs into...
Damaged material invariably exhibits a lower resonance frequency than undamaged material due to its reduced stiffness. Under fatigue loading, damage accumulates until failure, so changes in resonance frequency can be utilised as a variable to predict...
As the risk of drought increases due to climate change, understanding ecological drought has become increasingly important for ensuring water resource security and carbon balance. However, most current ecological drought assessments rely on meteorolo...
Rapid urbanisation has exacerbated habitat fragmentation and degradation, necessitating urgent improvements to urban habitat quality. However, most current studies lack an analysis of spatial differences in local ecological quality, particularly a sy...
Forest degradation, characterized by the gradual loss of the forest’s ecological and ecosystem functions, has been happening rapidly in the Amazon. Its main anthropogenic vectors are deforestation, forest fragmentation, selective logging, fores...
Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a critical biophysical parameter for characterizing vegetation canopy structure and function. However, fine-scale LAI estimation remains challenging due to limitations in spatial resolution and structural detail in traditiona...
Habitat fragmentation is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss and the alteration of the structure and function of habitat types. This study aimed to assess the conservation status of forest habitats by examining fragmentation and naturalness....
Using meta-analysis of 479 sites across Chinese forests from 136 publications, we quantified changes in soil microbial diversity across forest successional stages and compared patterns between plantation and natural secondary forests. Our systematic...
Under cool and moist climates, timely implementation of ditch network maintenance (DNM) is crucial for sustaining productivity of drained forests, thus reducing operational costs, while mitigating environmental risks. This underscores the need to und...
In this paper, a combined modification method using thermal modification and wax impregnation was investigated. The advantage of this method is that the two modification steps are completed in one step. Two different wood species, beech (Fagus sylvat...
Strip mining creates widespread degraded landscapes that have low soil pH, high bulk density, impacted hydrologic processes, and an accumulation of heavy metals that limit revegetation efforts. To improve soil conditions and restoration success, soil...
Four mechanical models were proposed to derive formulas predicting the bending moment capacities of layered particleboard under simply supported center-loading. Experimental validation confirmed these models are effective tools for describing the ben...
Shrub willow (Salix spp.) is a promising candidate for evapotranspiration (ET) covers due to its rapid growth and high water use. This study assessed 30 willow clones over two three-year rotations on a former industrial waste site in Solvay, NY, with...
This study focused on the response mechanism of plants in karst ecosystems under rock stress, and explored the influence of aboveground rocks on the root phenotype and leaf water potential of plants. By quantifying the root characteristics of a total...
This research proposes a green belt as a strategic response to urban expansion in Lomas del Paraíso, Villa María del Triunfo, Lima. Uncontrolled urban growth threatens the local ecosystem, exacerbates the lack of public spaces, and limi...
The Pinus yunnanensis forest of southwestern China represents a unique and ecologically critical vegetation type, historically shaped by fire disturbances. To mitigate catastrophic wildfire risks, prescribed burning has been widely implemented as a m...
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