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Wildfire Monitoring and Risk Management in Forests

edited by

Manuel Marey-Pérez

submission deadline 25 Jul 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9931 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfire mitigation strategy; wildfire risk; firefighting; fire index; wildfire prediction models; fire activity; fire behavior; fire management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)

Fungal Dynamics and Diversity in Forests

edited by

Douglas Godbold

and Burenjargal Otgonsuren

submission deadline 25 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5248 | Submission Open

Keywords: forests; saprotrophic fungi; mycorrhizal fungi; pathogenic fungi; ecosystem function

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)

Forest Restoration and Secondary Succession—Series II

edited by

Mulualem Tigabu

submission deadline 25 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2443 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest restoration approaches; indicators of restoration success; cost of restoration; succession trajectories; ecosystem services accrued from forest restoration; carbon sequestration and forest restoration; policy and governance related to forest restoration; secondary succession in logged over areas

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Plant-Insect Interactions in Forests

edited by

Jaroslav Holuša

Andrzej Mazur

and

Radoslaw Witkowski

submission deadline 25 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 226 | Submission Open

Keywords: phytophagous insects; insect– plant relationships; defence mechanisms of woody plants; stability of forest ecosystems; tree– phytophagous– antagonist trophic chains; phytophagous outbreaks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Geospatial Monitoring of Urban Green Space

edited by

Dino Dobrinic

Mateo Gašparović

and

Ivan Pilaš

submission deadline 29 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10172 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban green spaces; remote sensing; deep learning; classification; geospatial techniques; monitoring; green infrastructure; SAR-based features; optical-based features

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)

New Development of Smart Forestry: Machine and Automation

edited by

Jiangming Kan

Feng Kang

and

Liangkuan Zhu

submission deadline 30 Jul 2024 | 12 articles | Viewed by 15280 | Submission Open

Keywords: forestry chassis; harvesting and transportation machine; forest cultivation machine; picking robot; automatic testing system; autonomous robot; computer vision; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Operations and Engineering)

New Tools for Forest Science

edited by

Paulo Eduardo Teodoro

, Gileno Brito De Azevedo and

Larissa Pereira Ribeiro Teodoro

submission deadline 30 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1208 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest breeding; forest measurement; forest inventory; forest growth and production; machine learning; data analysis; forestry; remote sensing; wood quality; forest protection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Hydrological Functions and Hydrological Modeling in Forested Watershed

edited by

Shang-Shu Shih

and

Shaohua Marko Hsu

submission deadline 30 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 706 | Submission Open

Keywords: infiltration; interception; runoff; concentration time; water budget; surface– subsurface water interaction; hydrological modeling; vegetation hydraulics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Hydrology)

Forest Pests and Pathogens—The Need for a Global Strategy

edited by Matteo Bracalini and

Luisa Ghelardini

submission deadline 30 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: invasive species; global change; emerging diseases; secondary pests and pathogens; integrated pest management; forest epidemics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Conversion of Forest to Other Land Uses: Consequences in Greenhouse Gas Fluxes

edited by Shih-Chieh Chang

submission deadline 30 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use change; forests; greenhouse gas flux; carbon flux

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Meteorology and Climate Change)

Trees and Their Benefits: Social, Ecological & Economic Considerations

edited by

Richard W. Harper

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 18215 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban forestry; tree growth; tree survival; human health; aesthetic values; heat island; carbon storage/sequestration; wood usage; fruit crops; biodiversity; wildlife habitat; economic contributions; pests; construction; climate change; UAS and new technologies; forestry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)

Modeling and Remote Sensing of Forests Ecosystem

edited by

Jianping Wu

Zhongbing Chang

and Xin Xiong

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 16940 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; modeling; forest ecosystem; aboveground biomass; forest mapping; forest management; land use/cover change; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Integrated Measurements for Precision Forestry

edited by

and

Stelian Alexandru Borz

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 12501 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision forestry; smart forestry; instrument; sensor; forest monitoring; ecology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Fungal Biodiversity, Systematics, and Evolution

edited by

Nian-Kai Zeng

Li-Ping Tang

and

Dong-Qin Dai

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7883 | Submission Open

Keywords: mushrooms; biotechnology; fungal taxonomy; fungal phylogeny; fungal ecology; secondary metabolites of fungi; biological activities of fungi; artificial cultivation of fungi; ectomycorrhizal fungi

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)

Advances in Tree Physiology and Ecology under Drought Stress

edited by

Ning Du

Janusz Zwiazek

and

Wen-Qing Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6690 | Submission Open

Keywords: tree ecophysiology; water use efficiency; climate change; forest ecosystems; plant water relationships; drought stress; forest dieback

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)

Study of Forest Landscape Development Based on Geospatial Technologies

edited by

Leiguang Wang

Guanglong Ou

and Yihang Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6300 | Submission Open

Keywords: geospatial technologies; remote sensing; machine learning; forests; forest management; forest disturbance; forest dynamics; forest inventory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Indicators and Baselines of Afforestation and Reforestation

edited by

Guoqing Li

Zhongming Wen

and

Changcheng Liu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5605 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest restoration; vegetation mapping; community structure and function; tree species selection; priority area for afforestation; climate adaptation management; afforestation regionalization; indicators and baseline

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Water Cycle and Energy Balance Measurements in Forests

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4945 | Submission Open

Keywords: rainfall partitioning; evapotranspiration; energy budget; eddy covariance; tree hydraulics; forest drought responses; soil hydrology; forest runoff; catchment hydrology; forest management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)

Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding in Response to Different Threats

edited by

Jingli Yang

Haizhen Zhang

Shicheng Zhao

and Hanzeng Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3856 | Submission Open

Keywords: trees; genetics and breeding; heat stress; cold stress; salt stress; metal stress; abiotic and biotic stresses; environmental adaptation; gene regulation; genetic engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Molecular Biology)

Forest Ecology and Resource Monitoring Based on Sensors, Signal and Image Processing

edited by Yili Zheng, Xinwen Yu,

Paul Sestras

, Yue Zhao, Guang Deng and

Ankur Srivastava

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3766 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensors; remote sensing; LiDAR; artificial intelligence; machine learning; IoT (internet of things); ecology monitoring; resource monitoring; carbon sequestration monitoring; wildlife and plant monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Production in Forest Nurseries, Field Performance of Seedlings and Natural Regeneration in the Context of Climate Change

edited by

Mohammed S. Lamhamedi

Steeve Pepin

and

Damase P. Khasa

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3595 | Submission Open

Keywords: seed and seedling quality; cutting; somatic embryogenesis; nursery production; cultural practices; environmental stress; mycorrhizal and bacteria symbioses; field performance; research and development programs adapted to the production chain of tree seedlings; agroforestry products and their valorization; natural regeneration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Aboveground and Belowground Interaction and Forest Carbon Cycling—2nd Edition

edited by

Xiaokang Hu

Jiangling Zhu

and Tao Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3546 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest ecosystem; aboveground biomass; belowground biomass; root biomass; forest productivity; biomass turnover; litter production; litter decomposition; carbon cycling; forest management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Forest Biometrics, Inventory, and Modelling of Growth and Yield

edited by Antonio Carlos Ferraz Filho, Emanuel José Gomes De Araújo and

Chris Cieszewski

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3153 | Submission Open

Keywords: mensuration; growth dynamics; forest management; forest inventory; data collection; remote sensing; silviculture; statistical methods; resource assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Water Use Efficiency and Hydraulic Traits of Forest Trees in Changing Environment

edited by

Simona Altieri

and Francesco Niccoli

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2809 | Submission Open

Keywords: forests; water-use efficiency; hydraulic traits; climate change; tree adaptations; forest management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Hydrology)

Sustainable Forest Operations Planning and Management

edited by

Vasile Rǎzvan Câmpu

Jiří Dvořák

and Rudolf Alexandru Derczeni

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2772 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable harvesting; forest operations; environmental impacts; mechanization; time and productivity studies; labor safety and health; wood debris; timber losses

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Operations and Engineering)

Fungal Diversity in Forests

edited by Bernardo Ernesto Lechner,

Izabela Kałucka

and Viktor Papp

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2101 | Submission Open

Keywords: fungal diversity; fugal taxonomy; fungal biology; forests; biodiversity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Composites from Recycled and Modified Woods—Technology, Properties, Application—2nd Edition

edited by

Ján Iždinský

and

Ladislav Reinprecht

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1177 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood composites; particleboards; plywood; recycled wood; modified wood; processing; finishing; physical– mechanical properties; service life; bio-resistance; abio-resistance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)

Forest Fire Ecology and Ecological Restoration

edited by

Sandra Josefina Bravo

and Laura M. Bellis

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 388 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest disturbance; burnt areas; fire resilience; post-fire land management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)

Heavy Metals in Forests: Future Research Needs

edited by Panagiotis Michopoulos

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 345 | Submission Open

Keywords: heavy metals; deposition; forest soils; climate change; biogeochemistry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Forest Growth and Water Use—Opportunities for Management in Future Forests

edited by Donald A. White

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: drought physiology; water relations; forest– water interactions; quantitative physiology; plantation water use

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Resident Engagement in Urban Forests and Parks Management

edited by Jason S. Gordon

submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban forest equity; forest planning; civic science; participatory research; environmental education

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)

Precise Forestry: Forest Dynamic Change Mapping, Monitoring and Modeling

edited by

Chunying Ren

Chunyan Lu

and

Antonio J. Pérez-Luque

submission deadline 5 Aug 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4594 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest monitoring; remote sensing; mapping; modeling; disturbance; dynamic changes; biomass estimation; forest structure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Genetic Adaptation of Agroforestry to Climate Change: Diversity, Development and Function

edited by

Jichen Xu

submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1031 | Submission Open

Keywords: gene; alternative splicing; abiotic stress; transformation; gene editing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Molecular Biology)

Research on Vegetation Change in Forest Wetlands

edited by

Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras

submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 244 | Submission Open

Keywords: wetlands; deforestation; climate change; land use; invasive species; conservation; restoration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Urban Forest Landscape Planning, Management and Evaluation

edited by

Milena D. Lakicevic

Kazuhiro Aruga

and

Won-Sop Shin

submission deadline 18 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4629 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban biodiversity; urban landscape planning; biotic factors; abiotic factors; decision-making process; IT tools

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Forest Characterization Assisted by Remote Sensing Technologies

edited by

Diogo Nepomuceno Cosenza

Juan Guerra Hernandez

and Bruna Paolinelli Reis

submission deadline 18 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 429 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest mensuration; forest monitoring; forest inventory; laser scanner; radar; photogrammetry; uncertainty; digital forests

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Organic Fertilization and Sustainable Soil Management Practices in Trees

edited by

Victor Kavvadias

submission deadline 20 Aug 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6782 | Submission Open

Keywords: organic fertilization; soil quality; soil management techniques; soil conservation practices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Sustainable Utilization of Low-Value Tree Biomass for Bio-Based Products

edited by

Ida Poljansek

Primož Oven

and

Viljem Vek

submission deadline 20 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open

Keywords: lignocellulosic biomass; wood bark; heartwood; low-value biomass; chemistry structure; cellulose; lignin; hemicelluloses; extractives; polyphenols; natural antioxidants; antifungal properties; fine chemicals; decomposition; nanocrystalline cellulose; nanofibrillated cellulose; nanolignin; advanced methods; characterization; application; bionanocomposites; biopolymers; biodegradable

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)

Genetic Variation and Adaptation of Forest Trees to Environmental Changes

edited by

Ronan Xavier Corrêa

and

Andrei Caíque Pires Nunes

submission deadline 23 Aug 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9220 | Submission Open

Keywords: agroforest systems; climate; soil; and water changes; conservation genetics; genetic diversity; native trees; non-native trees; evolution; genomics; ecology; sustainable developing goals

(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Molecular Biology)

Forest Responses to Fires

edited by

Antonio Parra

and

María Belén Hinojosa

submission deadline 24 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 299 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; forest; grassland; land use change; management; prescribed fire; shrubland; wildfire

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Forest Paleoecology

edited by

Mar Génova

submission deadline 25 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1687 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant macrofossil; pollen analysis; charcoal; fossil wood; dendrochronology; fossil forest; paleoenvironment record; paleoecological reconstructions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Phenomenon of Wood Colour

edited by

Richard Hrčka

Magdalena Broda

and

Vlastimil Borůvka

submission deadline 25 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1504 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood; wood-based materials; colour; processes; surface; discolouration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)

Impact of Disturbance on Forest Regeneration and Recruitment

edited by

Jordan M. Marshall

submission deadline 25 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1090 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial regeneration; ecological processes; forest biodiversity; natural regeneration; recruitment; reforestation; restoration; structure; succession

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Pathways to “Carbon Neutralization” in Forest Ecosystems

edited by

Shuai Wang

Qianlai Zhuang

Fengkui Qian

and Hui Li

submission deadline 25 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 709 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest carbon emission efficiency; spatial association network; carbon peak; carbon neutralization; carbon prediction model

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Meteorology and Climate Change)

Transforming Forest Governance and Rural Livelihoods to Address Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss

edited by

Jinlong Liu

Dominick A. DellaSala

and

Peter Edwards

submission deadline 25 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 665 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest governance; biodiversity and ecosystem services; direct and indirect drivers; forest governance transformation; communities’ livelihoods; forest policy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)

Topicalities in Forest Ecology of Seeds, 2nd Edition

edited by

Božena Šerá

submission deadline 25 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 588 | Submission Open

Keywords: seed production; seed quality; seed dispersal; seed germination; early seedling growth; soil seed banks; seed dormancy; seed predation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Physiological, Biochemical and Morphological Adaptation Characteristics of Woody Plants to the External Environment

edited by

Eun Ju Cheong

submission deadline 26 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1342 | Submission Open

Keywords: woody plants; physiological adaptation; biochemical adaptation; morphological adaptation; environmental stress; drought; heat; carbon dioxide

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Meteorology and Climate Change)

Wood Inter- and Intra-annual Chemical Variation

edited by José Carlos Carvalho Rodrigues and Ana Alves

submission deadline 26 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 199 | Submission Open

Keywords: annual growth rings; earlywood/latewood; juvenile/mature wood; wood chemistry; analytical pyrolysis; vibrational spectroscopy; extractives; lignin content and composition; cellulose; hemicelluloses

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)

Woody Plant Phenology in a Changing Climate

edited by

Yanjun Du

and

Miaogen Shen

submission deadline 28 Aug 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5345 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest phenology; woody species; remote sensing; vegetation; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Meteorology and Climate Change)

Effects of Climate Change on Tree-Ring Growth

edited by Xianliang Zhang, Liang Shi,

Yafeng Wang

and

Qiang Li

submission deadline 29 Aug 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4507 | Submission Open

Keywords: tree-ring; dendroecology; stable isotopes; extreme climate events; drought; forest growth; climate changes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

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