Forest Resilience Under a Changing Climate

Dear Colleagues,

Forests across the world are increasingly exposed to diverse climatic and anthropogenic pressures, including rising temperatures, altered precipitation regimes, and extreme events such as droughts, heatwaves, storms, wildfires, and floods. These stressors challenge forest resilience, threatening biodiversity, carbon storage, and ecosystem services, while altering key land–atmosphere feedbacks at multiple scales.

This Special Issue aims to gather original research and reviews addressing how forests resist, adapt, and recover under changing environmental conditions. We invite interdisciplinary contributions combining ecology, climatology, atmospheric science, biogeochemistry, remote sensing, socio-environmental research, and forest management. Submissions from all biomes and climatic regions are welcome. Topics of interest include the following:

• Impacts of climate extremes on forest structure and function;
• Carbon, water, and energy fluxes under changing climatic conditions;
• Interactions between climate, land use, and biotic stressors;
• Biodiversity and species composition as drivers of forest resilience;
• Land–atmosphere feedbacks and their influence on ecosystem dynamics;
• Monitoring and modelling of forest response and recovery processes;
• Nature-based solutions and adaptive management strategies for resilient forests;
• Remote sensing, AI, and data-driven approaches to assess resilience;
• Socio-environmental dimensions and governance of forest adaptation.

Dr. Alvaro Enríquez-de-Salamanca
Guest Editor

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