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This Section focuses on advancing the understanding and sustainable management of forest ecosystems through integrated ecological and silvicultural research. It welcomes studies that explore the autecology of forest plants, including growth dynamics, phenology, pollen and seed dispersal, and spec...

Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science is a Section of the open-access peer-reviewed journal Forests, which publishes advanced studies and applications of economics and other social sciences to forest systems. The primary aim of this Section is to provide a medium for research thro...

The Section “Forest Health” publishes original research and full-length review articles describing research on all aspects of forest health. Examples of areas included in the Section “Forest Health” include but are not limited to: 

• Physiological and gen...

This section highlights progress in the mensuration, modelling and monitoring of forests around the world. The total woody volume and stem volume of a tree, aboveground biomass and basal area are key forest inventory attributes that are required by forest managers. Reliable mapping of volumes and...

This section highlights progress in forest meteorology and climate change around the world.

The main objective is to understand the exchange processes of momentum, matter, and energy between forests and the atmosphere as well as the impact of different environmental conditions on them. Gr...

Forest operations and engineering is a forestry discipline which addresses the design, implementation, control, and continuous improvement of forest operations systems and technologies related to environmental complexities and sustainability. The associated IUFRO division 3.00.00 which summarizes...

Forest Soil is a section of the open access peer-reviewed journal Forests, which publishes original, scientifically challenging research articles of international significance that describe and explain the physical, chemical, and biological processes that occur in the soil of forest ecos...

The Section “Genetics and Molecular Biology” publishes original research and full-length review articles describing research on all aspects of genetics and molecular biology in forest trees. Examples of areas included in the Section “Genetics and Molecular Biology” include...

This Section, “Natural Hazards and Risk Management”, publishes original research and full-length review articles describing research on natural hazards and risk management within forests. Examples of areas included in “Natural Hazards and Risk Management” include but are n...

"Wood Science and Forest Products" is a section of Forests that publishes original research studies, applications and review articles describing research on all aspects of wood, including forests and plantations, wood components, and wood-based products. The section also publishes articl...