Environmental Sciences Proceedings, Volume 22, Issue 1

Water use, water use efficiency, and water use sustainability are challenging issues for the expansion of Eucalyptus plantations around the world nowadays. Fast-growing species’ effects on water resources are of concern to society, and the fore...

Wildfires are a serious problem in many countries. In 2022, the President of Russia tasked the leadership of the different regions to reduce the average annual area of forest fires by two times by 2030. To implement this, the amount of funding has be...

Tree volume equations for Eucalyptus plantations are essential to estimate productivity, generalize equations that consider different genotypes and low-bias water regimes, and simplify plantation management. Our study evaluated the possibility of a g...

The purpose of the research was to combine our own data and the published data from forests in Ukraine on the approaches for improving the prediction and control of forest insect pests. Climate change and anthropogenic activity bring changes in fores...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the growth (cm), yield (kg/m²), crude protein (CP %), crude fiber (CF %), ether extract (EE %), NDF (%), ADF (%), gross energy (GE kcal/kg), ELN (%), Ash (%), and in vitro digestibility (IVD %) of Brachiari...

Despite regional warming, fire activity is decreasing in the Mediterranean region, blurring the well-established relationship between climate and wildfires. Here, we analyzed this relationship by focusing on the fire severity component of the fire re...

False-alpine grasslands, also known as summer grasslands or rangelands, are mainly associated with transhumance. In the past, transhumance and grazing were organized on a mainly family basis, and there existed an informal management system for grazin...

The hazardousness of Mediterranean landscapes has increased since the second half of the 20th century, and fuel loads of highly flammable vegetation types have increased throughout the region. Moreover, under the context of more severe fire weather,...

Fire is an essential component of many ecosystems and is one of the most recurrent disturbances in the Mediterranean biome. Moreover, the impact of global warming has led to an increase in the intensity of fires in many areas of the world. Here, we a...

Indian sandalwood (Santalum album Linn.), an evergreen tree, indigenous to the Indian peninsula, is known for its fragrant heartwood worldwide. Sandalwood plantations are gaining importance throughout the Indian subcontinent, demanding large-scale pr...

Leaf area is related to tree growth, water balance, and mechanical resistance to physical and biotic agents. Given its importance, the purpose of the study was to compare two nondestructive methods of leaf area estimation using the free software Imag...

Implementing inventory in remote and hard-to-reach forests is rather challenging. This study develops methods for identifying the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of mixed forests using Sentinel-1 imagery. The relationships between standi...

The selection of the most suitable alternative for harvesting operations is a challenging activity which is manageable via precision forest harvesting. In this study, an approach based on a combination of GIS (Geographic Information System) and AHP (...

Livestock grazing makes deformed, thorny, and twisted branches. The leaves are the main food resource for livestock. We aimed to investigate the leaf morphological characteristics of the Zagros Forest species under livestock grazing. Therefore, the l...

Urban forests provide many benefits for the city’s resilience to climate change by improving the degree of shading, evaporative cooling, rainwater interception, and storage and filtration functions. With the increasing population and unplanned...

The endemic plant of Benin, Ipomoea beninensis Akoègn, Lisowski and Sinsin, is threatened in its natural habitats. This study assesses the suitability of the current and future habitat for its conservation countrywide. Maxent models were run u...

This study acquired governmental-subsidized recovery costs from forest road damages over the past 19 years, between 2001 and 2019, in Gunma Prefecture. Then, this study analyzed correlation coefficients between return periods of rainfall intensity in...

Polygraphus proximus Blandford is a bark beetle that has recently invaded the dark coniferous forests of Southern Siberia. Over the last decade, this four-eyed fir bark beetle has destroyed Abies sibirica Ledeb stands on more than 500 thousand hectar...

Eucalyptus is a fast-growing genus widely used in the forestry industry; however, in the plant’s early stages, plantations are susceptible to drought conditions and it is common to find high mortality rates and loss of productivity. Therefore,...

Ecuador is considered one of the most biodiverse countries in the world but currently has one of the highest deforestation rates in South America. However, genetic knowledge needed to sustain conservation actions is generally absent in most species....

The development of non-destructive indicators of leaf-level hyperspectral reflectance is the first step in mapping endangered tree species in the tropics. Therefore, hyperspectral reflectance at the leaf level was implemented to differentiate 15 tree...

This study aimed to evaluate the synergy between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and foliar biostimulant applications (phytoextracts) on an important Argentinian forest native species (Prosopis alba) during the nursery stage. We tested biochemical...

Forest degradation has been accentuated in recent years by climate change and drought. This study consists of producing quality plants and understanding their ecophysiological behavior in the face of water stress. The plants of two broadleaves (Querc...

A good instance to improve the availability of resources for tree planting is during the establishment of stands, increasing the survival and initial growth of plants. Despite the common use of soil preparation, there are uncertainties about its long...

We analyzed the tree height of four areas affected by wildfires in northern Portugal and Galicia (Spain) using the GEE platform, random forest regression model, and GEDI data. Before the fires, the heights varied from 5.21 to 20.16 m, with r² values...

The use of biotechnological tools, in particular somatic embryogenesis (SE) for mass propagation of conifers, is relevant since this method allows to quickly replicate plant material with desired features. However, there are still a number of difficu...

We studied the dynamics of relative anomalies (ΔT/T_bg) in the ground cover thermal regime of technogenic territories in Siberia under the conditions of gold mining impact. The impact of gold deposit mining determines the change in the thermal s...

Tree mortality is becoming more common in wild forests, plantations, and orchards. Remedial or preventative counteracting measures are limited because, before the onset of overt dying, reliable methods to distinguish intrinsically healthy trees from...

Deadwood is a basic component in forest ecosystems since it supports many ecological and functional roles. Despite the importance of deadwood for assessing the sustainability of forest management, information on this fundamental parameter of forest e...

The selection of taxa/genotypes that have a rainfall interception that suits the conditions of each region is key to maintaining water stability and minimizing the effects of drought. This study evaluated rainfall interception on a seven-year-old pla...

The digitalization of processes is a priority objective on the agenda of the Italian National Government. The forestry system could benefit from its introduction, both for the purposes of administration, management, monitoring and governance of the n...

Forest management strategies aim to keep forests in the best possible condition [...]

Forest productivity is closely related to how effectively woody plants utilize the most important environmental factors—light and moisture. Assessment of the ecological plasticity of structural and functional traits in woody plants is necessary...

Platanus orientalis L. var. cretica is the ever-growing mutant of Platanus orientalis L. (plane tree) and its population consists of few trees, growing in isolation on the island of Crete, in the Aegean Archipelago of Greece, while the typical plane...

The goal of the present research is to monitor the forest vegetation’s condition and detect the changes that occurred in the territorial disturbance of the forest cover in the area of Natural Park “Blue Stones”, located in Bulgaria,...

This study assessed how the interactions between chemical fertilization levels and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus species (AMF) affect the seedling’s morphology and biochemical traits in Prosopis alba. Subsequently, the seedlings were inoculated...

Vegetation patterns in the high-altitude Himalayas are influenced by a complex set of biotic and abiotic factors. Anthropogenic disturbances are one of the primary factors influencing the community patterns and diversity, which are largely determined...

Observed (Ho) and expected (He) heterozygosity, as well as allelic richness (AR) were calculated using Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) genotyping for two important European keystone forest tree species. Abies alba and Fagus sylvatica are under pressure...

The strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) is well-known for the use of its leaves, fruits, bark and roots in traditional medicine and, more recently, in the therapy of hypertension, diabetes, inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases. The plant contains sev...

The genetic monitoring of forest trees is of the utmost importance for securing the maintenance of species’ adaptive potential. Genetic monitoring, the quantification of temporal changes in a population’s genetic variation and structure,...

Invasive non-native trees (INNTs) are increasingly recognized to have negative effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services in protected areas. The management of INNTs is one of the major challenges to preserving native species and ecosystems, to w...

Taxus baccata (European yew) is native to Greece, which hosts the most southeastern populations of the species. It is a medically interesting conifer due to its tetracyclic diterpenes, with the anticancer agent paclitaxel (taxol) being the most well-...

The abandonment of traditional forestry practices and the lack of updating these to more modern practices, as for the government of the coppices, has led to a dangerous homogenization of the landscape with a consequent loss of the ecosystem’s v...

The main by-product generated in the forestry industry is bark, derived from the debarking process. Pinus and eucalyptus are nowadays two of the most important tree species exploited by the forestry industry in southwestern Europe. This work investig...

An original methodology was formulated and a new three-stage method for assessing the CO₂ balance in plant communities was developed. In managed forests, when calculating the carbon balance, it is necessary to take into account the release of CO₂ and...

Forest and tree cover loss decreases the ecosystem services that they may provide such as food and livelihood, protection from calamities, oxygen to breathe, and storing of carbon. This study assessed the diversity, species composition, and carbon st...

Fagaceae species predominate a diverse range of habitats in the northern hemisphere and are critical to the ecosystem and economy. The high morphological and genetic diversity of these species serves as the foundation for adaptation to environmental...

This contribution synthesises the results from the study of the behaviour of Ayous (Triplochiton scleroxylon K. Shum) wood, untreated and industrially heat-treated at 215 °C, with the subsequent application of a mono-component polyurethane coatin...

Small-scale forestry and sustainable forest operations represent a key interest in Europe. Although animal-powered logging could be, in part, considered less harmful to topsoil, wood stands, saplings, and natural values than heavy machines, this meth...

The pinewood nematode (PWN) Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is a major threat to pine forests. Research on sustainable pest management strategies is now a priority. Essential oils (EOs) are biodegradable, complex mixtures of volatiles that can show l...