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Forests, Volume 9, Issue 11

November 2018 - 68 articles

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Cover Story: Some forest ecosystem services are steeped in culture and tradition. In this photo, a series of water-driven prayer wheels are situated over a stream on a mountainside in the Himalayan country of Bhutan. There, forests are recognized for their cultural, ecological and economic importance. An international team set out to test the hypothesis that forest ecosystem services undergird the well-being of the people in Bhutan. Starting with an assessment of the perceptions about forest services by people residing adjacent to or in forest areas, they found that awareness of forest ecosystem services was high among participants in the study. The provision of freshwater from these forests was the most cited service, but little evidence exists of this claim. Next steps in this research are to identify the links between forest condition and their services. Photo by Jigme Wangchuk. View this paper.

Articles (68)

  • Review
  • Open Access
112 Citations
21,545 Views
13 Pages

Forest Degradation: When Is a Forest Degraded?

  • Angélica Vásquez-Grandón,
  • Pablo J. Donoso and
  • Víctor Gerding

21 November 2018

The concept of forest degradation tends to be addressed in broad terms, and existing definitions are difficult to apply in practice. These definitions are based on a reduction in the production of ecosystem goods and services, but fail to address how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,338 Views
11 Pages

Genetic Variation in Water-Use Efficiency (WUE) and Growth in Mature Longleaf Pine

  • Ana C. Castillo,
  • Barry Goldfarb,
  • Kurt H. Johnsen,
  • James H. Roberds and
  • C. Dana Nelson

21 November 2018

The genetic and physiological quality of seedlings is a critical component for longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) restoration, because planting genetic material that is adapted to environmental stress is required for long-term restoration success....

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,336 Views
15 Pages

Megaspore Chromosome Doubling in Eucalyptus urophylla S.T. Blake Induced by Colchicine Treatment to Produce Triploids

  • Jun Yang,
  • Jianzhong Wang,
  • Zhao Liu,
  • Tao Xiong,
  • Jun Lan,
  • Qiang Han,
  • Yun Li and
  • Xiangyang Kang

21 November 2018

Triploids generally provide an advantage in vegetative growth in forest trees. However, the technique of triploid breeding is still an open field in the Eucalyptus tree species. This study aims to explore the colchicine treatment technique for megasp...

  • Retraction
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,315 Views

20 November 2018

The Forests Editorial Office has been made aware that Table 2, Figure 2, Figure 7, and Figure 8 listed in the paper [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,149 Views
26 Pages

Refining Species Traits in a Dynamic Vegetation Model to Project the Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Trees in Central Africa

  • Marie Dury,
  • Lenni Mertens,
  • Adeline Fayolle,
  • Hans Verbeeck,
  • Alain Hambuckers and
  • Louis François

20 November 2018

African tropical ecosystems and the services they provide to human society suffer from an increasing combined pressure of land use and climate change. How individual tropical tree species respond to climate change remains relatively unknown. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,072 Views
12 Pages

Exposure of Protected and Unprotected Forest to Plant Invasions in the Eastern United States

  • Kurt Riitters,
  • Kevin M. Potter,
  • Basil V. Iannone,
  • Christopher Oswalt,
  • Qinfeng Guo and
  • Songlin Fei

20 November 2018

Research Highlights: We demonstrate a macroscale framework combining an invasibility model with forest inventory data, and evaluate regional forest exposure to harmful invasive plants under different types of forest protection. Background and Objecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,445 Views
13 Pages

20 November 2018

Bioenergy produced from perennial feedstocks such as woody biomass could serve as an opportunity to strengthen local and regional economies and also jointly produce various environmental services. In order to assess the potential for biomass-based bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,959 Views
18 Pages

20 November 2018

Command-and-control policies are often criticized as insufficient to tackle tropical deforestation. Over the past two decades, both academics and policy-makers have promoted incentive-based policies, notably REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,120 Views
16 Pages

19 November 2018

While some tree species can regenerate naturally without mechanical site preparation (MSP), Scots pine has been shown to benefit from this process. We compared three methods: using a double-mouldboard forest plough (FP), an active single-disc plough...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,706 Views
24 Pages

19 November 2018

Mites significantly contribute, prevalently by vertical movement, to mixing of the organic layer with the mineral soil, thus they may be important in renewing soils. Our aim was to analyze the changes in abundance and species richness of mesostigmati...

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