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
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