How Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances Affect Plant Communities in Actively Managed Temperate Forests
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2025) | Viewed by 656
Special Issue Editors
Interests: silviculture; dendrochronology; forest ecology; sustainable forest management; climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Disturbances play a pivotal role in shaping the structure and composition of temperate forest communities. These discrete events affect temperate plant communities directly through differential survival and indirectly by altering abiotic factors such as air and soil temperature, intensity and quality of sunlight, and soil physical and chemical properties. Disturbances can also create opportunities for forest plant communities to evolve and adapt to changing environmental conditions, including human-caused climate change and invasive species introduction. Therefore, studies on disturbance impacts to plant communities will not only enrich our understanding of ecosystem resilience in actively managed forests, but also ensure the sustainability of forest ecosystem services.
We invite new or original research as well as review papers addressing the role of natural and/or anthropogenic disturbances in shaping plant communities of actively managed temperate forests, and the implications of this research for management of these forests in an uncertain future to be published in this Special Issue. Both experimental and observational studies are welcome.
Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Characteristics of disturbed forest plant communities;
- Dynamics of stand structure and composition;
- Forest restoration and conservation;
- Forest resilience and stability;
- Sustainable forest management.
Dr. Shaik M. Hossain
Dr. Matthew G. Olson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural disturbances
- anthropogenic disturbances
- plant communities
- stand structure and composition
- forest restoration and conservation
- forest resilience and stability
- sustainable forest management
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