Editorial Board
- Forest Ecology and Management Section
- Forest Ecophysiology and Biology Section
- Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science Section
- Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing Section
- Wood Science and Forest Products Section
- Genetics and Molecular Biology Section
- Forest Operations and Engineering Section
- Natural Hazards and Risk Management Section
- Forest Health Section
- Urban Forestry Section
- Forest Biodiversity Section
- Forest Hydrology Section
- Forest Soil Section
- Forest Meteorology and Climate Change Section
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Interests: bio-material; wood; bamboo; mechanical properties; interfacial properties; materials preservation and modification
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Interests: soil physics; soil water cycling; soil drying; earth's critical zone; the Loess Plateau
Interests: clonal forestry; forest tree breeding; plant propagation; Araucaria spp.; Ilex spp.
Interests: improving the genetic quality of hardwood tree species; conserving fine hardwood germplasm; genetically diverse ecosystems; forest genetics and genomics; Juglans genetics; hardwood tree breeding
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Interests: forest ecosystem; soil organic carbon; remote sensing; climate change; urban forest ecosystem
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Interests: soil microbial ecology; mycorrhizal fungi; nitrogen cycling; soilborne disease
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Interests: forest growth; drought sensitivity; extreme climate; resilience; hydraulic traits; forest dynamics; carbon starvation; heatwave; recovery
Interests: forest ecology; landscape ecology; biodiversity conservation; restoration ecology; fire ecology; urban landscapes
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Interests: earthquake-triggered landslides; rainfall-triggered landslides; active faults; hazard and risk mapping; landslide inventory
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Interests: gene function; alternative splicing; stress resistance; molecular evolution
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Interests: land use change; carbon neutrality; ecosystem services; ecological protection and restoration
Interests: soil respiration; methane and nitrous oxide flux; organic matter decomposition; nitrogen transformation; nitrogen leaching; nitrogen deposition; dissolved organic matter; climate change; 13C of soil-respired CO2
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Interests: molecular biology and genetic engineering of woody plants; forest molecular genetics; tree biotechnology and molecular breeding
Interests: vegetation parameters production; radiative transfer modeling; leaf area index (LAI); fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fPAR); vegetation dynamics
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Interests: tree phenology; tree rings; dendrochronology; climate reconstructions; climate changes
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Interests: eco-physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses of woody plants to abiotic stresses; ecological restoration and adaptable mechanisms of suitable plants in degraded ecosystems
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Interests: plant physiology; biochemistry; molecular biology; stress responses; functional genomics; gene regulation
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Interests: litter production; litter decomposition; soil carbon sequestion; soil biodiversity; extreme meterological events
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Interests: global change; carbon cycle; microbial ecology; loess plateau; pedology
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Interests: remote sensing of evapotranspiration; drought monitoring by remotely sensed data; estimation of the terrestrial water budget; vegetation remote sensing; forest remote sensing
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Interests: pattern recognition, machine learning, and their applications in forestry; remote sensing image classification; tiny object detection recognition; robust feature extraction; distance metric learning; multi-view learning; artificial intelligence and forestry (forest fire prevention, vegetation classification, monitoring and prediction of combustible impact factors, etc.)
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Interests: wood chemistry; lignin; organic synthesis; wood decay fungi; wood adhesives; multivariate analysis; NMR spectroscopy
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Interests: litter decomposition; forest ecology; carbon and nutrient cycling; soil ecology; soil fauna; plant-soil interactions; biodiversity

Section Board Member
Interests: high precision surface modeling method; Chinese population distribution surface modeling method; change detection model; ecological threshold model; scale ecological diversity model; patch connectivity
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Interests: plant-pathogen interaction; plant health; adaptation; omics; genome editing
Interests: wood products; life cycle assessment; wood quality qualification; wood anatomy; solid biofuel
Interests: physico-mechanical characterization; standards and normative; structural timber; wood-based products
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Interests: soil organic matter formation and decomposition; humic substances; phenoloxidases in soil; laccase; organic carbon stabilization
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Interests: urban biodiversity; forest ecology; carbon cycling; ecosystem services
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Interests: fungal resource; molecular mycology; fungal taxonomy; fungal genetics