Water Use Efficiency of Forest Trees
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 55
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest physiology; drought stress; forest rehabilitation; tree breeding
Interests: soil and forest nutrition; ecophysiology; forest productivity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water use efficiency (WUE) indicates the water use strategy among different species or at different life stages of plants. WUE provides an integrated indicator for quantifying CO2 assimilation via photosynthesis to water use through transpiration. WUE varies greatly with forest type (e.g., plantations or natural forests), species (e.g., sclerophyllous, evergreen, or temperate), age (e.g., seedlings, saplings, or adults), and environmental conditions (e.g., drought and heatwaves), among others. However, our understanding of how WUE operates from ‘gene to landscape’ is still incomplete. This Special Issue aims to gather original manuscripts that explore the latest advancements in the WUE of trees in forests in the context of climate change. Manuscripts spanning various geographical regions, forest types, and species in the open field or under controlled conditions are welcome.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The impacts of climate on WUE in forest trees;
- The molecular, morphological, and physiological responses in the WUE of different species;
- The molecular, morphological, and physiological responses in WUE at the leaf, plant, and forest level;
- The adaptations and strategies of different species to face water scarcity in arid environments and those moving to aridization;
- The improvement of WUE in fast-growing species;
- The use remote sensing to assess WUE at the landscape level.
Dr. Sergio Espinoza Meza
Dr. Rafael A. Rubilar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water use efficiency
- adaptations to drought
- climate change
- aridization
- carbon isotope discrimination
- plant water productivity
- water balance
- productivity
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