2026 May - 114 articles
Anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum spp., is a major foliar disease limiting rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) productivity. To uncover resistance mechanisms, we compared resistant and susceptible germplasm using an integrated framework combining le...
Dendroctonus valens LeConte represents a major invasive pest species in China. Both larvae and adults primarily feed on the phloem of the tree trunk base and roots, disrupting nutrient transport and leading to host tree mortality, which poses a sever...
Clonostachys rosea is a promising biological control agent (BCA) against several plant pathogens, but its sensitivity to solar radiation limits its field efficacy. The biochemical changes occurring in C. rosea under light are still unknown, and no st...
Despite the growing threat of Pythium helicoides to forest plantations in China, a nationwide assessment of climatic suitability remains unavailable, limiting the development of preventive strategies. This study applied the Maximum Entropy model comb...
The Iulia Felix is a 2nd-century AD Roman shipwreck that was discovered off the coast of Grado in 1986. Following its recovery, the hull was dismantled and treated with high concentrations of PEG 4000 at elevated temperatures. This process was comple...
Botrytis cinerea is a globally distributed phytopathogenic fungus that causes gray mold in eucalyptus seedlings, posing a severe threat to eucalyptus nursery production. Pseudomonas eucalypticola Liu et al. NP-1 is an endophytic bacterium isolated fr...
This study utilized three controlled Sitika spruce beam specimens and established a parameterized transfer-function model based on force–acceleration frequency response functions (FRFs) to characterize and reconstruct the frequency-domain modal...
Litter decomposition is a key regulator of soil carbon formation and nutrient cycling in the plant–soil continuum. However, the utility of structural chemical indicators for capturing the relationship between litter decomposition and environmen...
Global warming and climate change have considerably enhanced worldwide environmental concerns since the 1970s. Therefore, researchers have extensively researched the nexus between renewable energy utilization and CO2 emissions in the literature. Howe...
Urban forests support wildlife populations across North America and the world. Yet, challenges remain for research and practice to integrate wildlife habitat as a core component of the myriad objectives that urban foresters manage. Ecosystem services...
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) constitute an important component of forest-based production systems and biomass supply chains in Türkiye. Despite their growing economic and ecological significance, the long-term structural dynamics of NTFP p...
A nondestructive, rapid, and portable detection method for moisture content (MC) in living tree trunks remains unavailable. Tree radar, developed based on ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology, represents a promising approach for tree trunk MC de...
Tropical forest restoration has increased in the past decades, with possible advancements given the UN declaration of the “Decade of Ecosystem Restoration”. However, robust assessments to compare ecosystem functions among restored forest...
Poor seed germination severely limits the propagation and conservation of Zelkova schneideriana (Chinese zelkova). However, the comparative effects of different exogenous phytohormones on seed germination of this species and the associated molecular...
Wood-based panels are increasingly used in exterior applications; however, comprehensive evaluations of their durability under standardized aging conditions remain limited. This study evaluates the dimensional stability and mechanical performance of...
Forest soils serve as critical terrestrial carbon sinks. While broad hydrothermal controls on soil respiration (Rs) are established, uncertainties persist regarding high-frequency temporal dynamics and moisture-dependent variations in temperature sen...
Understanding how P availability affects root turnover and P redistribution within plants is essential for optimizing fertilization strategies and sustaining forest growth under low-P soils. This study evaluated the effects of P fertilization on root...
To investigate the carbon footprint of bamboo-based activated carbon from different manufacturing pathways, this research evaluated cradle-to-gate manufacturing emissions under a unified system boundary and allocation baseline based on primary data f...
Silicon (Si) plays a crucial role in forest ecosystem functioning by influencing plant nutrient cycling, stress resistance, and biogeochemical processes; however, how Si and phytolith characteristics respond to environmental gradients in subtropical...
Administrative fragmentation, whereby political boundaries are used as analytical extents, can disrupt ecological flows and weaken ecological network planning by creating a mismatch between governance units and ecological processes. However, the path...
Background: As a transcription factor superfamily unique to plants, WRKY plays broad roles in both secondary development and secondary metabolic processes. Robinia pseudoacacia is renowned for its durable and naturally durable heartwood, which holds...
Rapid detection of wilt-affected pine crowns in mountainous forests is hindered by occlusion, self-shadowing, and heterogeneous backgrounds in conventional nadir products. We evaluated whether oblique UAV RGB imagery improves crown-level detection re...
The forest dormouse (Dryomys nitedula) is a small, nocturnal, arboreal rodent widely distributed across Central and Eastern Europe. Yet, it remains one of the least studied European glirid species, with information on its ecology in southern populati...
Peatlands cover approximately 3% of the global land area but store about 44% of the world’s soil carbon, making them a major carbon sink. Indonesia alone accounts for about 37% of global tropical peat carbon stocks. However, large-scale carbon...
Plant species can significantly influence soil micronutrients. We assessed how soil micronutrients (B, Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn) and aluminum (Al) were affected by soil depth (SD) and plant species (PS) in a secondary forest at Masako Forest Reserve. Soil samp...
To protect the endangered Northern Spotted Owl, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service established extensive conservation areas across the Pacific Northwest (PNW). While this policy effectively contributed to the preservation of an endangered species, it...
Logging causes damage on residual trees, with differing characteristics and severities. The causal agent, as well as the size and type of injury, is influenced by the type of machines, the harvesting technology adopted, and the machine operator. This...
Agroforestry and perennial tree crop production systems, particularly in Mediterranean regions, exhibit a high degree of integration among trees, herbaceous, and soil components. They provide essential services including provisioning, regulation, sup...
This paper uses a young fruiting body harvesting experiment to examine how uncertainty affects improper behavior and how two nudges, prior selection and consequence viewing, can mitigate or shape this behavior. Uncertainty promotes improper harvestin...
In northeast British Columbia (BC), Canada, industrial forestry is gradually converting 10+ M ha of broadleaf–conifer (mixedwood) boreal forest to conifer plantations. This is due in part to governmental free-to-grow (FTG) regulations, which sp...
As a typical mountain ecosystem in the western Tianshan Mountains, the Ili River Valley possesses abundant vegetation resources. Soil nematodes are effective biological indicators for evaluating soil micro-food webs. Nevertheless, the response mechan...
Quercus baronii Skan (Q. baronii) is an ecologically important tree species in arid and soil erosion-prone areas of northern China, and also holds significant potential as a bioenergy tree species, providing substantial ecological benefits. Global cl...
Forests in Poland play a key recreational role, and the growing interest in sylvaturism requires optimized management. Despite the growing body of research on forest recreation, existing studies rarely address the role of small-scale infrastructure i...
This study evaluates the mechanical properties of Hinoki (Chamaecyparis obtusa) from Japan to determine reliable design values for its application as structural dimension lumber species in the United States. A comprehensive experimental program was c...
Urban trees are increasingly exposed to persistent anthropogenic drivers that extend beyond climatic forcing and fundamentally alter the conditions of secondary growth. While climatic controls of cambial phenology and xylogenesis are well established...
The response of tree growth to environmental (climatic) changes has largely been analyzed through ring width–climate relationships, yet such analyses often lack the dynamic process of radial growth in response to environmental changes. Therefor...
Natural forest regeneration offers economic, ecological, and environmental advantages over artificial regeneration; however, its application is often constrained by uncertainties in stand development and management outcomes. Pre-commercial thinning (...
Wildfires severely disrupt soil nitrogen (N) cycling, yet the mechanisms driving this disruption in fragile karst forest ecosystems remain poorly understood. We investigated how wildfires affect soil N transformation dynamics and the microclimatic dr...
The hot-pressing process for reconstituted bamboo suffers from issues such as insufficient process monitoring, scattered quality data, difficulties in quality traceability, and a lack of intuitive on-site management. This paper designs and implements...
Screw withdrawal force is a key mechanical property related to the load-bearing capacity and reliability of mechanically fastened timber structures. This study investigates the screw withdrawal performance of cross-laminated timber (CLT) manufactured...
Family businesses represent an important part of the wood-processing and furniture industry and may play a significant role in sustainable forest-based development. This study aims to analyze how family businesses perceive selected external determina...
Urban forests (UFs) are increasingly promoted as a nature-based solution for mitigating particulate matter (PM) pollution, yet their removal performance can vary depending on surrounding emission sources and environmental conditions. Here, we quantif...
Although Non-Wood Forest Products can offer interesting economic opportunities for rural communities, little is known about their commercial harvesters. Our work aims to shed light on the labour profiles, their accessibility to new entrants, and attr...
Stand-level canopy base height (Cbh) is a key variable controlling crown fire initiation, yet it is commonly computed as the mean of tree height to the base of the crown (hbc), which does not reflect the lower portion of the hbc distribution governin...
Non-built-up green areas are essential for preserving the ecological functions of cities and fostering sustainable growth. Focusing on Shanghai, we developed a comprehensive framework of driving forces that integrates socioeconomic, natural, policy,...
The accelerated growth of cities has intensified interest in the ecosystem services provided by urban forests, increasingly conceptualized as socio-ecological systems (SESs). This study presents a structured narrative review combined with bibliometri...
Bamboo flattening technology provides an efficient approach for improving bamboo utilization, but the heterogeneous stress response and the mechanism of bamboo nodes during the flattening process remain insufficiently understood. In this study, a uni...
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) has exceptional growth capacity in nutrient-poor environments and is therefore widely used for afforestation and land reclamation on degraded soils. However, drought stress can restrict sapling growth, which und...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is pivotal to the terrestrial carbon cycle and climate regulation, yet its spatiotemporal dynamics and future climate responses across soil layers remain insufficiently understood in mountainous ecosystems. Taking the Qinlin...
Conventional Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)-based sub-canopy topography retrieval models often suffer from insufficient characterization of scattering mechanisms, strong nonlinearity, and poor parameter convergence. To address these...
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