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Forests, Volume 16, Issue 8

August 2025 - 160 articles

Cover Story: Climate change threatens forests worldwide, altering the distribution and viability of species. Quercus pyrenaica Willd., a marcescent oak native to the Iberian Peninsula, France, and Morocco, is a structural component of submediterranean forests but is susceptible to shifts in temperature and precipitation. To assess its future potential loss of suitable area, we developed high-resolution spatial distribution models under two different future climate change scenarios (SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5) for the years 2070 and 2100. Our projections indicate a northward shift in the potential distribution, accompanied by habitat loss in southern and lowland areas. Given the species’ limited dispersal capacity, these findings stress the need for targeted management and conservation strategies. View this paper
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Articles (160)

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  • Open Access
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Physical–Mechanical Properties of Innovative Biobased Particleboards for Application in External Building Façades

  • Ramunas Tupciauskas,
  • Andris Berzins,
  • Martins Andzs,
  • Rudolfs Berzins,
  • Janis Rizikovs and
  • Gunars Pavlovics

21 August 2025

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...

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  • Open Access
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19 Pages

21 August 2025

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...

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  • Open Access
773 Views
24 Pages

Profiling Climate Risk Patterns of Urban Trees in Wuhan: Interspecific Variation and Species’ Trait Determinants

  • Wenli Zhu,
  • Ming Zhang,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Siqi Wang,
  • Lu Zhou,
  • Xiaoyi Xing and
  • Song Li

21 August 2025

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...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
757 Views
14 Pages

21 August 2025

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...

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  • Open Access
1,704 Views
15 Pages

21 August 2025

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...

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  • Open Access
863 Views
21 Pages

20 August 2025

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...

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  • Open Access
637 Views
17 Pages

20 August 2025

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...

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  • Open Access
789 Views
18 Pages

Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Profiling of AP2/ERF Transcription Factor Genes in Prunus armeniaca L.

  • Yanguang He,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Nan Jiang,
  • Donglin Zhang,
  • Xiaodan Shi,
  • Tana Wuyun and
  • Huimin Liu

20 August 2025

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,...

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  • Open Access
692 Views
20 Pages

19 August 2025

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...

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  • Open Access
814 Views
24 Pages

19 August 2025

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...

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