2026 August - 137 articles
In physical model inversion of leaf area index (LAI) over complex vegetation canopies, variations in canopy structure, background moisture, and background brightness can cause spectrally similar lookup table (LUT) candidates to represent different co...
Natural wood possesses a hierarchically porous and anisotropic structure, which provides a foundation for functional utilization, but its flammability and hygroscopicity limit its applications. Conventional bulk impregnation modification involves int...
This study compared net photosynthesis (A), water-use efficiency (WUE), intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE), and A–
Climate change drives shifts in forest vegetation zones, and the major tree species of warm–temperate evergreen broad-leaved forests in South Korea are also expected to undergo changes in their potential distributions under future climate condi...
Plantations dominated by different tree species can differ in soil nutrient cycling and microbial community assembly, but corresponding bacterial and fungal patterns have not been characterized for mature plantation stands and a natural secondary for...
Hybrid cross-laminated timber combining plantation Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook.) with oriented strand board (OSB) is resource-efficient, but its bond line may govern delamination. Double cantilever beam (DCB) specimens bonded wi...
Forest recreation is a key public-benefit function of forests, but as a non-market good, evidence of the public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for its sustained provision remains scarce. This study applied the double-bounded dichotomous choice cont...
Forest ecosystems constitute one of the fundamental components of the terrestrial biosphere, as they perform essential functions in climate regulation, the carbon cycle, biodiversity conservation, hydrological regulation, soil protection, and the pro...
The “algarrobo” (Neltuma pallida) is a key tree species in the seasonally dry tropical forests in Equatorial Pacific coast of South America, currently at risk. Its regeneration depends on endozoochorous dispersal, in which seeds are inges...
Mangrove ecosystems underpin the livelihoods of coastal and rural households across the tropics, yet how their ecosystem service (ES) values are associated with livelihood-strategy choices remains unevenly understood. Following a Preferred Reporting...
Urban construction often involves root cutting, which can affect tree stability and disrupt physiological processes. However, studies assessing the impacts of root cutting on urban trees remain limited. Our objective was to quantify the physiological...
Initial soil moisture (ISM) represents the soil moisture condition before a rainfall event and is an important factor associated with rainfall and runoff responses in forested catchments. However, it remains unclear whether this nonlinearity can be c...
National bibliometric assessments can show how scientific communities change, but their results depend strongly on how the researcher population is defined. This paper assessed publication output, citation patterns, institutional structure, and colla...
This study employed a mixed-methods design combining a survey of 167 social workers in Seoul and in-depth interviews with three social welfare experts to explore strategies for integrating forest welfare services into the social service system. The s...
Farmland shelterbelts are important linear vegetation infrastructures in oasis agricultural landscapes. Their accurate extraction is essential for shelterbelt inventory and farmland management, but remains challenging because shelterbelts are narrow,...
High-temperature drying can considerably improve drying efficiency. However, information on its impact on the mechanical properties of silver fir during industrial high-temperature drying remains limited. Elevated drying temperatures may induce chang...
Although many studies had been conducted on soil microbial communities in forest ecosystems before this one, how the diversity and network complexity of soil microbial communities evolved throughout the succession of karst forests remained unclear. W...
Black alder (Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn.) wood is characterized by rapid and frequently non-uniform color changes after felling and during hydrothermal processing. These changes are largely associated with extractive compounds, among which oregonin,...
Pityogenes chalcographus was monitored using pheromone traps installed in different forest types across Bosnia and Herzegovina. The study was conducted within protected areas of Sarajevo Canton, including the Protected Landscapes of Bijambare and Tre...
Soil respiration (Rs) is a key component of terrestrial carbon cycling, yet its temporal structure and vertical environmental controls remain insufficiently understood. This study investigated Rs and its components across four subtropical forest type...
Terrestrial ecosystems play a critical role in achieving carbon neutrality, yet the carbon sequestration potential (CSP) of China’s terrestrial ecosystems remains incompletely characterized, particularly regarding the roles of future climate sc...
Accurate aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation in subtropical forests is critical for regional carbon accounting and sustainable forest management. However, standardized multi-source feature screening and integrated machine learning–geostatistic...
Variable illumination, severe occlusion, and the small scale of pest instances in complex forest environments significantly compromise the accuracy of automated forest pest detection. Existing deep learning-based detection models often face challenge...
Efficient wood logistics is essential for a sustainable wood supply chain. In Poland, mounting symptoms of inefficiency highlight the need for a systematic and comprehensive performance assessment across the entire supply chain. Previous studies have...
Soil fungi play a key role in nutrient cycling and soil organic matter turnover, yet the influence of pedological context on fungal communities across forest types remains insufficiently understood. Here, we combined soil chemical analyses, Fourier-t...
The growing demand for sustainable materials has renewed interest in replacing conventional petroleum-based wood adhesives with natural, environmentally friendly alternatives. This study evaluated the bonding performance of a conventional polyvinyl a...
Exploring plant nutrient allocation and stoichiometry is critical to understanding the adaptive strategies of endangered trees in heterogeneous habitats. This study determined the concentrations of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potass...
This study used Camellia pyxidiacea var. rubituberculata as the rootstock and the improved cultivar Camellia oleifera ‘Qianyou 2’ as the scion for heterografting (CO group), with homografting (using C. pyxidiacea var. rubituberculata as b...
Ground-based logging operations cause soil compaction that constrains natural regeneration in the Hyrcanian forests of northern Iran, yet how soil textural properties modulate these effects on endemic tree species remains poorly understood. This stud...
Arid and semi-arid ecosystems are being reshaped by climate variability and human interventions, but increases in individual ecosystem indicators do not necessarily translate into coherent gains in ecosystem multifunctionality. Inner Mongolia is a re...
The rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis Müll. Arg), the primary source of natural rubber, faces severe constraints from low temperature stress in industrial production. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying cold tolerance, this study iden...
Understanding the mechanisms of vegetation recovery following severe ecological disturbances is essential for effective forest management. The relative importance of environmental predictors across different disturbance types and temporal phases rema...
Pyroligneous liquor (PL) is a by-product of charcoal production with potential applications in agriculture, forestry, and industry. This study evaluated the influence of carbonization temperature on the yield, chemical composition, and physicochemica...
The growing demand for energy in agro-industrial systems has increased the need for forest biomass in regions of expanding commercial forestry, such as Mato Grosso State, Brazil. However, information on how genetic material and harvest age influence...
Tree-related microhabitats act as key links between forest structure and biodiversity, but these pathways may be altered in urban forests. In Mediterranean urban forests, we found that deadwood-related processes were weaker than hypothesized, while s...
Pines (genus Pinus) are a diverse group of conifers widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere, comprising more than 110 species worldwide. In Europe, pines are a defining component of forests, occupying environments that range from dry Medite...
This study conceptualizes forest experiences into multidimensional values rather than a single metric and demonstrates that a statistically non-significant linear path does not imply theoretical irrelevance. Comprehensive evaluations of the structura...
Numerous studies have demonstrated that climate exerts a substantial impact on forest growth. Traditional stand growth yield tables fail to take climatic factors into account, resulting in low accuracy and limited applicability. The study aimed to de...
This research focused on understanding the diversity of macrofungi in the “Tingana Conservation Concession” in San Martín, Peru, a unique flooded forest located at approximately 900 m a.s.l. in the Andean-Amazonian foothills. Three...
Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is a widely used hardwood species whose limited natural durability and dimensional instability under moisture restrict its outdoor applications. This study investigated the effect of vacuum impregnation with corn oil (Zea m...
Thermal forcing is one of the most important drivers of leaf phenology and can be used to determine species’ phenological requirements. Counting on this, the aim of the study was to quantify the thermal regime and determine how it explains vari...
Under-forest wild-simulated cultivation of Gastrodia elata Bl. f. glauca S. Chow (Wu Tianma, WTM) offers a viable pathway for reconciling ecological conservation with economic and health benefits, yet optimal seed tuber regimes remain understudied. W...
In recent years, UAV-based visible and thermal (RGB-T) multimodal object detection has demonstrated significant potential for monitoring forest fires in complex environments. However, restricted by the intrinsic discrepancies between modalities, exis...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is an important indicator of plantation-forest soil quality, but Vis-NIR models calibrated at one site may show systematic bias at another. This study used 370 Gaofeng samples as the source domain and 119 Yachang samples as...
Against the backdrop of global climate change, wildfires have emerged as key disturbance factors accelerating permafrost degradation. However, how wildfires affect ground-surface deformation, including spatial patterns and potential driving mechanism...
China’s wood-based forest product industry relies heavily on imported raw materials, making exchange rate volatility relevant to procurement planning and risk management. This study uses quarterly data from 2008Q1 to 2025Q4 and ARDL/NARDL model...
Deadwood is widely recognized as an important structural component of forest ecosystems, yet its relationship with natural regeneration remains highly context-dependent, particularly in semi-arid forests. This study evaluated associations of plot-sca...
Forest regeneration is a multistep ecological process that commences with seed production and dispersal, progresses through dormancy release as well as seedling germination and establishment, and culminates in tree growth and maturity, frequently und...
Forest thinning is a critical silvicultural practice for managing forest structure and enhancing various ecosystem services, yet its long-term impacts on trade-offs among these services remain complex. This study evaluated ecosystem services 17 years...
Phenotypic variation does not always correspond closely to genetic structure within species, particularly for morphological traits that are also influenced by environmental conditions. We examined whether leaf morphology in Daphne blagayana reflects...
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