Protection, Ecological Restoration and Sustainable Management of Natural Forest: Theory and Technology

Dear Colleagues,

A natural forest is the evolution product of long-term interaction between forest organisms and their natural environment. It has high biodiversity, complex community structure, rich habitat characteristics, and good ecosystem stability. It plays an extremely important and irreplaceable role in ensuring agricultural and animal husbandry production, maintaining biodiversity, protecting the ecological environment, mitigating natural disasters, and adjusting the global carbon balance and biogeochemical cycle. The research on natural forest protection, ecological restoration, and sustainable management is of great significance to the global natural forest resources. This Special Issue aims to provide a useful reference for the protection, restoration and sustainable management of natural forests.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Structure and function;
• Natural forest succession dynamics；
• Diversity of natural forests (including plants, animals, microorganisms, structures, etc.);
• Growth pattern;
• Carbon fixation and carbon cycle;
• Hydrological ecology;
• Ecological restoration technology and effect evaluation;
• Protection and sustainable management technology, etc.

Dr. Zhonghua Zhao
Prof. Dr. Yi Ding
Dr. Hongxiang Wang
Guest Editors

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