Spatial Distribution and Growth Dynamics of Tree Species
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 30764
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest valuation; forest management; silviculture; forest economics; timber harvesting
Interests: forest seeds; forest nurseries; forest plantations; forest management improvement
Interests: biodiversity; sustainability; conservation biology; forestry; silviculture; forest fragmentation; tropical forest ecology
Interests: Mediterranean forests; invasive species; forest ecology; ailanthus; Quercus; silviculture; mycorrhizal symbiosis; old growth forests
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As part of forest structures, the spatial distribution patterns of forest tree species is a function of the interaction of several environmental variables and many ecological processes, also capable of affecting ecosystem processes and biological diversity. Consequently, understanding these forest patterns can contribute to understand the history, function and potential future of a forest’s ecosystem; with this information also being an essential basis for the analysis of disturbances in such an environment.
Tree growth, or increment, is a lengthy and complex life process involving several ontogenetic phases from germination to maturity. Tree growth models describe the growth of forest ecosystems by considering how the dimensions of each simulated tree change in a specified period of time and are usually divided into single-tree and whole stand models used to answer ecological questions by, e.g., defining the impact of the interdependence between the tree species and their environment on forest development and assessing forest yields under certain prescribed conditions. Tree growth models are, therefore, important tools for understanding the dynamics of forest ecosystems and for effective and sustainable forest management.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Species distribution models;
- Provenance distribution models;
- Provenance tests;
- Spatial distribution of trees;
- Spatial genetic structures of tree species;
- Spatialvariability of vegetation structure;
- Climate change and its impact on species and provenance/seed zone distribution.
Prof. Dr. José Ciro Hernández-Díaz
Prof. Dr. José Ángel Prieto-Ruíz
Prof. Dr. Christian Wehenkel
Dr. Emilio Badalamenti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- SDM
- SGS
- climate change
- assisted migration
- growth model
- GADA
- ADA
- growth parameters
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