Sustainable and Suitable Ecological Management of Forest Plantation
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Operations and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2025 | Viewed by 81
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forestry; forest ecology; black pine stands; forest mechanical stability; forest structure
Interests: wood technology; wood quality; forest operations; timber harvesting; performance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change and forest ecosystems are closely connected. Forests and forest plantations can act as a carbon sink, as they can accumulate atmospheric CO2 as carbon in vegetation and soil. However, human activities that impact land use and forest characteristics can alter the carbon cycle between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems, leading to increased CO2 emissions. Since forest plantations can act as a carbon sink, they are included in international policies to address climate change through both mitigation and adaptation processes; it is necessary to favor the connection of these two aspects. Reforestation can play this dual role for forest ecosystems.
The sustainable and suitable ecological management of reforestation helps with pursuing adaptation responses, as it maintains the state of forests and guarantees ecosystem services, especially on a local scale, reducing vulnerability to climate change and biodiversity loss. Furthermore, it also helps with regulating water flow and water resources through their hydrological ecosystem services.
This Special Issue will provide carefully selected contributions on the state of the art regarding forest plantations across the world. It will explore the performances of sustainable forest plantations, including silvicultural techniques, forest operations, ecosystem services and the evaluation of the structural and mechanical stability of forest plantations.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Suitable management of conifer plantations;
- Ecosystem services of forest plantations;
- Effects of several thinnings or interventions in forest plantations;
- Production and management of forest harvest residues;
- Plantations and wood harvesting;
- Structural and mechanical stability of forest plantations;
- Modelling growth and wood production;
- Forest plantations and biodiversity;
- Wood quality of forest plantations.
Dr. Manuela Plutino
Dr. Andrea R. Proto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ecosystem services
- sustainable forest management
- suitable ecological management
- conifer plantations
- wood production
- adaptation climate change
- mitigation climate change
- forest operations
- wood quality
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