2026 September - 133 articles
The herbaceous layer in subtropical moist forests often faces multiple concurrent growth and development constraints, yet the relative importance of these constraints and their responses to nutrient addition remain poorly quantified. We conducted a t...
Demand for nature-based recreation has increased the need for recreational-service planning in National Forest Parks (NFPs). Existing studies evaluate recreational services, but translating findings into actionable planning remains challenging. This...
Long-term phytosanitary monitoring provides essential information on temporal changes in forest-insect populations, but conclusions depend on consistent sampling and accurate definition of the taxa included in the analysis. We examined the dynamics o...
To better understand restoration processes on the plateau, we assessed plant diversity and community stability in restored roadside patches dominated by herbs (H), shrubs, and herbs (SH), or trees, shrubs, and herbs (TSH) at four elevations (3100, 33...
Climate change is expected to reshape the climatic suitability of Neotropical plant taxa, particularly in topographically complex regions such as the tropical Andes, yet no nationwide assessment exists for the genus Clusia L. (Clusiaceae) in Peru. We...
Leptographium procerum as a symbiotic fungus of Dendroctonus valens contributes significantly to pine decline and wood degradation in Pinus tabuliformis, yet effective and environmentally friendly management options remain limited. To explore biologi...
Background and Objectives: Aggregating mapped trees into larger cells necessarily reduces some among-cell variation; ecological scale responses must therefore be distinguished from arithmetic averaging. We evaluated stand structure and crown competit...
Botanical insecticides proposed for forest pest management must combine efficacy against target insects with acceptable effects on host trees. Following the demonstrated insecticidal activity of 2% Camelina sativa (CS) and Brassica carinata (BC) oil-...
This study investigates the ultimate bearing capacity of engineered bamboo columns of varying lengths under eccentric loading using a data-driven machine learning (ML) approach. Although previous studies have investigated engineered bamboo columns un...
Riparian vegetation in the Araguaia basin remains poorly studied, with few forest inventories addressing its structure and composition. This study sought to integrate attributes of tree communities along the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the ba...
This study evaluated the effects of soil injection treatments, including aeration, hydrogel application, and mycorrhizal inoculation, on the soil hydrothermal regime and foliar NDVI of young street trees (Prunus serrulata) under real urban conditions...
Robinia pseudoacacia L. wood is globally recognized for its high density, superior mechanical performance and low dimensional changes. Although widely cultivated across Hungary under diverse environmental conditions, potential regional variations in...
Forest ecological connectedness is defined as the spatial continuity of forested patches and landscapes that facilitate the exchange of materials, biodiversity, and ecosystem services; it has become an important criterion for environmental quality an...
To quantify the spatial and lagged associations between ecological water conveyance and fractional vegetation cover (FVC) in Populus euphratica Oliv. forests, we integrated Landsat imagery (1995–2025), conveyance records, groundwater observatio...
Wood is a renewable and widely used material whose mechanical performance is strongly influenced by natural defects such as knots, cracks, and resin pockets. These defects affect structural accuracy and make quality assessment an essential step in wo...
Farmland shelterbelts can provide broad microclimatic and production benefits, but these benefits may coexist with localized competition near the tree–crop interface. Their effects also vary with environmental conditions, shelterbelt attributes...
Corticioid fungi play important ecological roles in forest ecosystems by contributing to wood decomposition, nutrient cycling, and habitat formation. Their simplified morphology has long-complicated taxonomic classification, while molecular phylogene...
Leaf water content (LWC) is a core indicator for precise irrigation decision-making in fruit orchards, which is critical to water use efficiency improvement and stable yield maintenance in arid oasis agricultural systems. In this study, leaf water co...
Growth decline before tree death has attracted increasing attention under climate change and plantation ageing. However, most previous studies have relied on diameter at breast height (DBH) or tree-ring measurements at breast height and have given li...
Static pulling tests are essential for evaluating tree mechanical stability, hence the ability to sustain wind loading. In the tests, the trees are usually pulled in one direction, which can raise concerns about the bias of the estimates due to thigm...
Integrated Crop–Livestock–Forest (ICLF) systems have emerged as a key strategy for sustainable agricultural intensification by simultaneously enhancing productivity, ecosystem services, and climate resilience in tropical environments. Thi...
Forest fires profoundly affect ecosystem carbon sink functions through direct carbon emissions and ecological process disturbances. However, the mechanisms by which fire carbon emissions (FCE) influence net ecosystem productivity (NEP) remain poorly...
Outbreaks of the sharp-toothed bark beetle, Ips acuminatus, have become increasingly frequent across Europe, yet little is known about how natural enemy communities vary between bark beetle population phases. This study compared the composition, dive...
Forests are major terrestrial carbon sinks, but the relative effects of ecological zones, tree species, stand structure, and site quality on carbon sequestration capacity (CSC) and net ecosystem production (NEP) remain insufficiently quantified at na...
Hydroclimatic variability in Central China affects forest ecosystem stability, agricultural production, and regional water resources, but short instrumental records limit the long-term evaluation of recent droughts. We developed earlywood and latewoo...
Thinning effects vary depending on thinning type, intensity, and timing, making it important to compare alternative scenarios before field implementation. We aimed to provide a fundamental basis for selecting appropriate thinning operations by analyz...
Forest-based innovation is increasingly important for Europe’s transition towards a sustainable and circular bioeconomy, yet the extent to which macro-regional research and innovation priorities in Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CEE/...
This study examined long-term changes in floristic composition and hydrological conditions following reforestation in the Yangju Forest Watershed Experimental Catchment, Republic of Korea. The analysis integrated repeated floristic surveys spanning a...
For several years, an intense needle disease of Pinus mugo, caused by Lophodermella sulcigena, has been occurring in the Polish Tatra Mountains. These needles are secondarily colonized by a fungus of the genus Hendersonia. Phylogenetic analyses place...
Black alder (Alnus glutinosa) is widely used to reclaim nutrient-poor post-mining soils, yet how adverse conditions affect seasonal foliar macronutrient dynamics and resorption remains unclear. We compared seasonal changes in leaf C, N, P, K, S, Ca,...
Forestry is an accident-prone industry, and more needs to be done to reduce the number of accidents. Through a survey sent to 1494 Swedish non-industrial private forest owners (FO), this study investigated their safety routines and attitudes, and wha...
Stoichiometry provides an integrative framework for evaluating nutrient dynamics in plantation ecosystems. However, whether stand-age-related changes in leaf–litter–soil carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) stoichiometry are consi...
Plants associated with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi exhibit distinct strategies for acquiring phosphorus (P), yet how these strategies respond to increased soil P availability remains poorly understood. We investigated...
Forest-road classification systems are not internationally aligned, and no common basis exists for comparing them. This study specifies a three-axis analytical framework—functional purpose, engineering capability and service condition—and...
Caesalpinia spinosa is a native forest tree species of the Andes with growing economic and ecological importance, valued for the high tannin content of its pods, the galactomannans present in the seed endosperm, and its potential for restoration prog...
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), traditionally considered a drought-tolerant species, is increasingly threatened by climatic stress and the opportunistic pathogen Diplodia sapinea in Central Europe. Using linear mixed models, this study investigated th...
Combining remote sensing data with field inventory data is a common practice in estimation of forest Aboveground Biomass (AGB). However, in areas with well-established ground monitoring systems, the actual added value of this combination has not been...
Toxicodendron vernicifluum is an economically important lacquer-producing tree endemic to East Asia; propagation bottlenecks severely restrict elite clone industrialization. This review summarizes 20 years of the domestic and international literature...
Individual tree segmentation and diameter at breast height (DBH) estimation are fundamental to precision forest inventory. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology has become an essential tool for achieving these objectives at the single-tree l...
Recent studies on users of urban parks call for the need for more insight into the importance of green spaces as catalysts of more inclusive spaces. This paper contributes to the ongoing debate by examining urban parks as age-inclusive infrastructure...
Cities are entering an era in which climate change, biodiversity loss, and rapid urbanisation are no longer future challenges but present realities [...]
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is increasingly used to evaluate the environmental performance of forest products, yet its role in market uptake remains less explored. This study investigates how LCA can support the market uptake of custom one-way wooden...
Heterobasidion annosum is a destructive root- and butt-rot pathogen of coniferous forests, and its detection before the development of visible disease symptoms remains challenging. In this study, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the headspace of...
Spaceborne LiDAR provides essential observations of forest vertical structure, yet canopy height retrievals remain vulnerable to terrain-related errors in steep mountainous forests, where terrain heterogeneity complicates attribution of error to foot...
Forests sustain human societies through an interdependent portfolio of provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting services [...]
Biochar amendment is widely used to enhance soil carbon storage and regulate greenhouse gas emissions, but field evidence from forest plantations remains limited. This 1.5-year field study investigated the responses of soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emiss...
Amid China’s pursuit of ecological civilization and high-quality development, a central policy challenge lies in designing environmental governance instruments that can simultaneously deliver ecological improvement and socially inclusive outcom...
Establishing plantations in areas characterized by fragile natural vegetation emerges as a crucial approach to ecological restoration in karst regions. However, strong environmental filtering in karst regions constrains the ecological functions of un...
Forest landscapes used for recreation also provide climate-regulating services that are often absent from spatial planning. We mapped aboveground biomass density (AGBD) and aboveground carbon storage in the Postavaru-Piatra Mare mountain landscape ne...
Against the backdrop of global forest degradation and timber supply constraints, improving green production efficiency in forestry while securing timber supply is an important challenge for sustainable forest management. Treating China’s Nation...
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