Forest Management and Biodiversity Conservation—2nd Edition
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 516
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forest ecosystems contribute to human wellbeing and the economy through the complex ecosystem services they provide. The sustainable and regular supply of ecosystem services by forests requires excellent knowledge of the functional and biological diversity in these complex ecosystems. This is related to the management of forests, which evolves over time, in order to face the current challenges. One of the major challenges in forest management is the sustainability of the resource itself, while the challenge for the conservation of biological diversity is to secure a minimum set of strategically located primary forests in representative areas with high diversity and endemism.
This Special Issue provides a platform to highlight new research and significant advances in assessing forest ecosystem conditions and ecosystem services and to outline concepts and solutions for sustainable forest management and biodiversity conservation. The topic is open to contributions from forest ecosystems worldwide. However, a major focus will be given to forests in mountainous regions, as here the link between conservation and forest/land use is particularly complex. This further extends to all the ecosystem service categories offered by forest ecosystems.
The current Special Issue deals with topics such as ecological variability, climate change, forest management practices, forest conservation, and restoration. We also welcome significant contributions for ecological methods for forest exploitation, remote sensing applications in forestry, management and innovative practices for invasive species and tree pathogens, urban forests, and the management of forests after natural disturbances.
Dr. Lucian Constantin Dincǎ
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- forest management
- functional diversity
- ecology and regional biological diversity
- ecosystem services
- economic evaluation
- biodiversity conservation
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Related Special Issue
- Forest Management and Biodiversity Conservation in Diversity (19 articles)
