Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin and Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously offer their time to review the papers submitted to Forests by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Forests.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All of the reviewers for Forests in 2023 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– The number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be four winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2024 after peer review;
– An electronic certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced in March 2024 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Forests, but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
Forests Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Forests 2022 Best Paper Award for research and review articles published in Forests in 2022. Two reviews and two research articles will each receive an award. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the Forests award committee led by the Editors-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin and Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Forests in 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal’s award committee according to the following criteria:
– The scientific merit and broad impact;
– The originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– The creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– The clarity of presentation;
– The citations and downloads.

Prizes:
– Two review awards: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Forests in 2024 following peer review;
– Two research article awards: CHF 500 CHF and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Forests in 2024 following peer review;
– Each winner will also receive an electronic certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal’s website in March 2024.

Kind regards,
Forests Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Forests is inviting applications for the Forests 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to two PhD students or recently qualified PhD who have produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential. The applications will be assessed by an evaluation committee led by the Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin and Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng.

Eligibility and Requirements
– The candidate must be a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential;
– The PhD thesis must be their original work;
– The PhD thesis must be defended in 2022.

Required Application Documents
– An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English of around 3000 words;
– A letter from the PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
– The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
– An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
– A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate of studying at a school or research institute as a PhD student going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria
– Quality of resume and publications;
– Relevance of the candidate and research description;
– Novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis;
– Strength of the recommendation letter;
– Anticipated academic potential;
– Originality and impact of the research.

Prizes
– Bonus (CHF 500);
– Certificate;
– Offer to publish one paper with a 50% discount on the article processing charge in Forests after peer review before the end of 2024.

The application deadline is 30 June 2023. The winners will be announced on the Forests website by the end of August 2023.

Kind regards,
Forests Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Forests is now inviting nominations for the Forests 2022 Early Career Investigator Award. This prize will be given to two young investigators in recognition of their excellence in the field of forest science. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin and Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng.

The Prize
– An official certificate;
– CHF 1000;
– Option to publish two papers, after peer review, in Forests with a 50% discount on the article processing charge.

Eligibility and Requirements
– Must have received PhD degree on or after 1 January 2018;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of forest science;
– Candidates must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination
– Detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– At least one signed nomination letter from two established senior scientists, in which one nominator should write the nomination letter, and the other one can be identified with their email address;
– Statement of career interruption (if applicable).

Schedule
– Open for nomination: 19 January 2023
– Nomination deadline: 30 June 2023
– Winners announcement: 31 August 2023

How to Submit Nominations?
The nominations must be submitted online.

Contact
Ms. Kira Xu
Section Managing Editor
Email: [email protected]

Kind regards,
Forests Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editors-in-Chief of Forests, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Forests 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to Dr. Mostarin Ara, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta, who is going to attend the Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA); and Dr. Fernando Júnior Resende Mascarenhas, a PhD student at the University of Coimbra, whose abstract containing many results of his PhD research was accepted by WCTE 2023—World Conference on Timber Engineering, the most important worldwide conference in the wood field.

As the awardees, they will each receive an honorarium of CHF 800, an offer to publish one paper with a 50% discount on the APC in Forests by the end of 2023 after peer review, and an electronic certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, we congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng
Editors-in-Chief, Forests

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Forests 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Forests Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Forests. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Petr Pyszko
Department of Biology and Ecology, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Research Interests: abrosia gall midges; community ecology; insect diversity; insect microbiome; plant-herbivore interactions.

Dr. Narayan Bhusal
College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Research Interests: plant physiology; plant–water relation; photosynthesis; leaf water potential; sap flow; stem root and leaf anatomy; stress physiology; drought stress; hormonal analysis, waterlogged stress, plant phenology and morphology.

Dr. Vasiliki Kamperidou
Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Research Interests: forest products; wood; preservation; modification; treatment; joint; wooden structures; wood products; biomass chemistry; wood chemistry; wood physics.

Dr. Muhammad Adnan Akram
State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems (SKLGAE), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Research Interests: plant ecology; plant ecophysiology; desert ecosystem ecology; leaf functional traits; desert plant ecology; plant convergence and divergence; phylogeny; phylogenetics; heavy metal eco-toxicity; ethnobotany; plant functional traits and their relationship with the environment; plant lifeforms, i.e., herbs, shrubs, subshrubs, and trees.

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Forests in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Forests Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce the two awardees for the 2022 Forests Travel Awards.

Mr. Eko Setio Wibowo is pursuing his PhD in the Department of Wood Science and Technology at Kyungpook National University in Republic of Korea. With his background and skills, Mr. Wibowo is sure to make important contributions to the growth in science of wood adhesives. His current research focuses on wood adhesives and on the investigation and characterization of the unique properties of UF resins, such as crystalline formation.

Ms. Melissa Latella is completing her PhD at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Ms. Latella has shown an enormous talent for research by developing new methodologies to combine field measurements, remote sensing data processing, and analytical and numerical modelling for ecomorphodynamic investigations.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Forests 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Forests were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, four winners were selected.

Two Reviews:
Global Change and Forest Disturbances in the Mediterranean Basin: Breakthroughs, Knowledge Gaps, and Recommendations
By Josep Peñuelas and Jordi Sardans
Forests 2021, 12(5), 603; doi:10.3390/f12050603 

Recent Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Forest Remote Sensing—A Systematic Review. Part II: Research Applications
By Riccardo Dainelli, Piero Toscano, Salvatore Filippo Di Gennaro and Alessandro Matese
Forests 2021, 12(4), 397; doi:10.3390/f12040397

Two Articles:
Xylem Phenology and Growth Response of European Beech, Silver Fir and Scots Pine along an Elevational Gradient during the Extreme Drought Year 2018
By Elena Larysch, Dominik Florian Stangler, Mona Nazari, Thomas Seifert and Hans-Peter Kahle
Forests 2021, 12(1), 75; doi:10.3390/f12010075 

Emerald Ash Borer Approaches the Borders of the European Union and Kazakhstan and Is Confirmed to Infest European Ash
By Mark G. Volkovitsh, Andrzej O. Bieńkowski and Marina J. Orlova-Bienkowskaja
Forests 2021, 12(6), 691; doi:10.3390/f12060691 

Each winner will receive CHF 500, an electronic certificate and a chance to publish a paper in Forests free of charge in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of Forests 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Forests.

Kind regards,
Forests Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Forests 2021 Early Career Investigator Award are Dr. Oksana Pelyukh and Dr. Saverio Francini.

Dr. Oksana Pelyukh is a researcher of the Research Institute of Mountain Forestry at Ukrainian National Forestry University, Lviv, Ukraine. Dr. Oksana Pelyukh ’s research interests are sustainable development, ecological economics, mountain forest management, forest modeling and stakeholder analysis. Dr. Oksana Pelyukh received her PhD in 2020 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 17 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Oksana Pelyukh for her outstanding achievements.

Dr. Saverio Francini is a post-doctor of the Laboratory of Forest Geomatics at the University of Florence in Italy. Dr. Saverio Francini’s has great experience in forest monitoring and innovative approaches to forest remote sensing and spatial analysis. Dr. Saverio Francini received his PhD in 2022 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 21 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Saverio Francini for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardees, Dr. Oksana Pelyukh and Dr. Saverio Francini will each receive an honorarium of CHF 1000, an offer to publish a paper with a 50% discount on the article processing charge before 31 December 2023 in Forests after peer-review, and an electronic certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Timothy A. Martin and Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng
On behalf of the Forests 2021 Early Career Investigator Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Forests, it is my great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2021 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize has been granted to two PhD students who have produced a highly anticipated academic thesis.

The winners are:

“Characterizing Tree Communities in Space and Time Using Point Clouds” By Tuomas Yrttimaa, School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

“Women in Forest Sector Leadership: A Multi-country Study” By Pipiet Larasatie, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate and the opportunity to publish a paper with a 50% discount in Forests in 2023.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups for their contributions to Forests and the Award Committee for their efforts in the voting process.

Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Editor-in-Chief, Forests

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce the 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award of Forests. Careful and timely peer reviews are the foundation of all successful journals. We are pleased to be able to recognize a few outstanding reviewers and offer them a nominal cash award for their exemplary service to Forests and, in turn, to the broader scientific community.

Four reviewers have been selected on the basis of the timeliness, quality, and speed of their review reports. They are:

– Dr. Tomasz Oszako, Forest Research Institute, Braci Leśnej 3, 05-090 Sękocin Stary, Poland.
– Prof. Dr. Stelian Alexandru Borz, Department of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Şirul Beethoven 1, 500123 Brasov, Romania.
– Dr. Maricar Aguilos, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
– Dr. Narayan Bhusal, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University, 1Gwanak ro, Gwanak gu 8826, Korea.

Each of them will receive the following:

– 500 CHF (Swiss Francs);
– Opportunities to publish papers (no quantity limit) with 50% discount in 2022;
– A certificate.

We thank them for their efforts in the review process. In addition, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the reviewers for their time and dedication in 2021.

If you are interested in reviewing articles for Forests, please register your contact details, including your ORCID identifier, institutional affiliation, a short CV, and 5–6 keywords in line with your expertise at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer_reviewer/step/1.

The managing editors will send you a notification once approved.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce the two awardees for the 2021 Forests Travel Awards.

Ms. Pipiet Larasatie is completing her PhD at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and social scientist researching sustainable business management and forest sector competitiveness. Her current research includes engineered wood industry development, public perceptions of wooden multi-storey buildings, forest-based circular bioeconomy, and gender dynamics in the forest industry and faculties of forestry. For more information about her research and publications, please visit her personal website at www.competitive-forest.com.

Ms. Tania L. Maxwell is a PhD student at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), completing a double-degree program focused on Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems at the Université de Bordeaux and Forest Sciences at the Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. Her professional interests include soil ecology, biogeochemistry, forests, global changes, R, and coding.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Forests 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published in the Year 2020 (1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020) in Forests were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the four winning papers have been selected.

Two Articles Awards:
Coastal Pine-Oak Glacial Refugia in the Mediterranean Basin: A Biogeographic Approach Based on Charcoal Analysis and Spatial Modelling
Forests 2020, 11(6), 673; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11060673

A Survey in Natural Forest Ecosystems of Vietnam Reveals High Diversity of both New and Described Phytophthora Taxa including P. ramorum
Forests 2020, 11(1), 93; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11010093

Two Reviews Awards:
Living in Drylands: Functional Adaptations of Trees and Shrubs to Cope with High Temperatures and Water Scarcity
Forests 2020, 11(10), 1028; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11101028

Advances and Promises of Epigenetics for Forest Trees
Forests 2020, 11(9), 976; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11090976

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in Forests free of charge (2000 CHF) in 2022. On behalf of the assessment committee, we would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishment. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Forests and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Kind regards,
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin, on behalf of the Forests 2020 Best Paper Award Evaluation Committee

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Forests 2019–2020 Best Cover Awards. In total, 24 cover stories published from 2019 to 2020 in Forests were considered for these awards.

The winners are as follows:

Forests, Volume 10, Issue 9 (September 2019):
“Non-Destructive Evaluation Techniques and What They Tell Us about Wood Property Variation”
(doi: 10.3390/f10090728).

Forests, Volume 10, Issue 2 (February 2019):
“Identifying European Old-Growth Forests using Remote Sensing: A Study in the Ukrainian Carpathians”
(doi: 10.3390/f10020127).

Forests, Volume 11, Issue 5 (May 2020):
“Variation in Deadwood Microsites in Areas Designated under the Habitats Directive (Natura 2000)”
(doi: 10.3390/f11050486).

Forests, Volume 11, Issue 10 (October 2020):
“Vegetative and Edaphic Responses in a Northern Mixed Conifer Forest Three Decades after Harvest and Fire: Implications for Managing Regeneration and Carbon and Nitrogen Pools”
(doi: 10.3390/f11101040).

Forests, Volume 11, Issue 2 (February 2020):
“DBH Distributions in America’s Urban Forests—An Overview of Structural Diversity”
(doi: 10.3390/f11020135).

The winners of the “Forests 2019–2020 Best Cover Awards” will receive 200 CHF each.

Congratulations to the winners for their excellent research!

Forests Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce the 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award of Forests. Careful and timely peer reviews are the foundation of all successful journals. We are pleased to be able to recognize a few outstanding reviewers and offer them a nominal cash award for their exemplary service to Forests and, in turn, to the broader scientific community.

Four reviewers have been selected on the basis of the timeliness, quality, and speed of their review reports. They are:

• Prof. Dr. Miguel Girona, Institut de Recherche sur les Forêts, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Campus of Amos, Amos, Canada.
• Dr. Vasiliki Kamperidou, Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Dr. Maurizio Marchi, CNR Institute of Biosciences and BioResources (IBBR) Florence division, Italy.
• Dr. Maricar Aguilos, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA.

Each of them will receive the following:

• 500 CHF (Swiss Francs);
• Opportunities to publish papers (no quantity limit) with 50% discount in 2021;
• A certificate.

We thank them for their efforts in the review process. In addition, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the reviewers for their time and dedication in 2020.

If you are interested in reviewing articles for Forests, please register your contact details, including your ORCID identifier, institutional affiliation, a short CV, and 5–6 keywords in line with your expertise at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer_reviewer/step/1.

The managing editors will send you a notification once approved.

Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Forests 2020 Young Investigator Award are Dr. Rachael Nolan and Dr. Adriane Esquivel Muelbert.

Dr. Rachael Nolan is a lecturer of fire ecology and biogeosciences at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia. She is fascinated by the role of disturbances in ecosystems, in particular the effects of fire on the landscape. She has two main areas of research. The first is focused on understanding how ecosystems respond to disturbance, and what this means for ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration, habitat values and water resources. The second research area that she focuses on is developing models of forest flammability in relation to dynamics of fuel loads and moisture content.

Dr. Adriane Esquivel Muelbert is a lecturer in Global Forest Ecology at School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. She is interested in global change ecology, particularly of forests. Adriane’s goal is to unravel the implications of global change on biodiversity and forest dynamics and how these will affect forests’ role in the global biogeochemical cycles. Her work leverages large sources of fieldbased data on forest dynamics, functional traits and species composition to answer questions on a continental and global scale. She is passionate about tropical forests and their complexity, particularly the Amazon, and seeks to translate her research into conservation efforts.

Each of them will receive the following:

Prize for Winners:
– An official certificate
– 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs)
– Option to publish two papers, after peer review, in Forests with a 50% discount on the article processing charge.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their careful evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin,
on behalf of Forests 2020 Young Investigator Award Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce the two awardees for the 2020 Forests Graduate Student/Post-Doc Travel Awards.

Morgan Crowley is a PhD candidate at the Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Québec, Canada. Her current research focuses on mapping and analyzing forest fires in Canada using satellite-based remote sensing and Google Earth Engine.

Ninni Saarinen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Her current research focuses on characterizing and modeling of forest ecosystems at various scales—from the branches and stem of an individual tree to regional and national scale monitoring.

We had many impressive applicants for this award, and we congratulate our two recipients.

Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce our 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Awards. Careful and timely peer reviews are the foundation of all successful journals. We are pleased to be able to recognize a few outstanding reviewers and offer them a nominal cash award for their exemplary service to Forests and, in turn, to the broader scientific community.

Four reviewers have been selected based on the timeliness, quality, and speed of their review reports:

• Dr. Ram P. Sharma, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague-6, Suchdol, Czech Republic.
• Dr. Maurizio Marchi, CREA, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Viale Santa Margherita 80, I-52100 Arezzo, Italy
• Dr. Miguel Montoro Girona, Département des Sciences Fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 555 boul de l’Université, Chicoutimi, QC G7H 2B1, Canada
• Dr. Oscar Alfranca, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Edicifi D4 (ESAB), Esteve Terrades, 8 08860 Castelldefels, Spain

Each of them will be granted 500 CHF and receive a waiver of the publication fee for one paper.

We thank them for their efforts in the review process. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to all reviewers for their time and dedication in 2019.

If you are interested in reviewing articles for Forests, please register your contact details, including your ORCID identifier, institutional affiliation, a short CV, and 5–6 keywords in line with your expertise at the following link:

https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer_reviewer/step/1. The managing editors will send you a notification once approved.

Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Editor-in-Chief

As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce that the following four papers were selected to receive the Forests 10th Anniversary Best Paper Awards for 2019.

Article:
First Place Award (800 CHF)
A General Leaf Area Geometric Formula Exists for Plants—Evidence from
the Simplified Gielis Equation
by Peijian Shi, David A. Ratkowsky, Yang Li, Lifang Zhang, Shuyan Lin, and
Johan Gielis*
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/9/11/714

Second place Award (500 CHF)
Measuring Livelihood Diversification and Forest Conservation Choices:
Insights from Rural Cameroon
by Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi *, Jürgen Pretzsch, Mukong Alfred Kechia, and
Symphorien Ongolo
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/10/2/81

Third place Award (300 CHF)
Dynamics and Management of Rising Outbreak Spruce Budworm Populations
by Jacques Régnière *, Barry J. Cooke, Ariane Béchard, Alain Dupont, and
Pierre Therrien
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/10/9/748

Review (800 CHF)

Tropical Dry Forest Diversity, Climatic Response, and Resilience in a
Changing Climate
by Kayla Stan, and Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa *
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/10/5/443

These papers are among the best of the broad array of high quality research published in Forests, spanning from basic to applied, human dimensions to physiology. We warmly congratulate Dr. Johan Gielis, Dr. Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Dr. Jacques Régnière, Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa and their colleagues.

In recognition of their accomplishments, each of the corresponding authors will be granted a cash award as noted, a certificate, and the chance to publish a paper (as first author or corresponding author, either
review papers or research articles) with a 50% discounts in Forests before 31 December 2020 (after the completion of the normal peer-review process). We would like to express our sincere gratitude to these and all Forests authors for their contributions to the journal.

Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce the two awardees for the 2019 Forests Graduate Student/Post-Doc Travel Awards.

Dr. Evgenios Agathokleous is a PhD in Environmental Resources from the Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Institute, Japan. His current research focus is the monitoring and modeling of forest health in a changing world.

Mr. Mizanur Rahman is a PhD candidate from the Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. His current research focus is understanding the long-term growth and physiological responses of South Asian moist forest trees to global environmental changes and their implications for the global carbon and hydrological cycles.

We had many impressive applicants for this award, and we congratulate our two recipients.

Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce the 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards of Forests. Careful and timely peer reviews are the foundation of all successful journals. We are pleased to be able to recognize a few outstanding reviewers and offer them a nominal cash award for their exemplary service to Forests and, in turn, to the broader scientific community.

Four reviewers have been selected on the basis of the timeliness, quality, and speed of their review reports. They are:

• Prof. Dr. Choonsig Kim, Department of Forest Resources, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology, Jinju 52725, Republic of Korea.
• Prof. Dr. Ivo Machar, Department of Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Palacky University Olomouc, 17th Listopadu 12, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
• Dr. Ram P. Sharma, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague-6, Suchdol, Czech Republic.
• Dr. Robert Jandl, Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), Focal Point Climate Change Coordination, Seckendorff Gudent Weg 8, 1131 Vienna, Austria.

Each of them will be granted 500 CHF and receive a waiver of the publication fee for one paper.

We thank them for their efforts in the review process. Also, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the reviewers for their time and dedication in 2018.

If you are interested in reviewing articles for Forests, please register your contact details, including your ORCID identifier, institutional affiliation, a short CV, and 5–6 keywords in line with your expertise at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer_reviewer/step/1. The managing editors will send you a notification once approved.

Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce the two awardees for the 2018 Forests Graduate Student/Post-Doc Travel Awards.

Dr. Danielle E. Marias, a post-doctoral fellow from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA, is carrying out research to investigate plant physiological responses to environmental stress in light
of climate change, food security, and bioenergy.

Ms. Monika Shea, a PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, is studying the identification processes controlling vegetation in ecotones.

We had many impressive applicants for this award, and we congratulate our two recipients.

Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin

Editor-in-Chief
School of Forest Resources and Conservation
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, 32611-0410, USA
E-Mail: [email protected]

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce the 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Awards of Forests. Careful and timely peer reviews are the foundation for all successful journals. We are pleased to be able to recognize a few outstanding reviewers and offer them a nominal cash award for their exemplary service to Forests and, in turn, to the broader scientific community.

Four reviewers have been selected based on the timeliness, quality and speed of their review reports. They are Dr. Norbert Kunert, Tropical Silviculture and Forest Ecology, Burckhardt Institute, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Dr. Mathias Neumann, Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Peter Jordan-Str. 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria; Prof. Roberto Scotti, Dipartimento di Agraria (Nuoro Forestry School), Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via Cristoforo Colombo, 1, 08100, Nuoro, Italy and Dr. Lee Frelich, Center for Forest Ecology, University of Minnesota, USA. Each of them will be granted 500 CHF and receive a waiver of the publication fee for one paper.

We thank them for their efforts in the review process. Also, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017.

If you are interested in reviewing articles for Forests, please register your contact details, including your ORCID identifier, institutional affiliation, a short CV, and 5-6 keywords in line with your expertise at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer_reviewer/step/1
The managing editors will send you a notification once approved.

Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Editor-in-Chief
School of Forest Resources and Conservation
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, 32611-0410, USA
E-Mail: [email protected]

As the Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce the two awardees for the 2017 Forests Graduate Student/Post-Doc Travel Awards. Dr. Paloma Ruiz Benito, a post-doctoral fellow from the University of Alcala, Spain, carries out research to better understand the interactive effects of climate and land use change on forest functioning. Mr. Stephen Murphy, a graduate student from the Ohio State University, USA, studies the complex suite of interactions between individual trees and their environment. We had many impressive applicants for this award, and we congratulate our two recipients. More information about their programs is available on these websites:
https://palomaruizbenito.wordpress.com/home/
http://lizacomita.weebly.com/people.html

The competition for the 2018 Forests Graduate Student/Post-Doc Travel Award will be opened in early June 2017. Please check www.mdpi.com/journal/forests and follow us @Forests_MDPI for more information closer to this date.