Innovative Techniques for Monitoring and Managing Invasive Forest Pests and Pathogens
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 2372
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Against the backdrop of a changing climate and the increasing likelihood of pest introductions facilitated by ever-increasing human movements and trade, effective surveillance is more important than ever in our arsenal against invasive forest pests. Well-designed and multi-stranded approaches to early pest detection—along with swift and robust approaches to pest management in the event that a pest does reach new shores—are critical if the ecological and economic impacts of the novel pest on forestry are to be minimised, and eradication is to be successfully achieved.
This Special Issue will showcase cutting-edge and well-designed approaches to maximising forest pest surveillance efforts, advances in pest understanding and detection technologies that underpin effective surveillance, and evidence-led approaches to pest management on the front line of an invasion.
We invite submissions from authors working in the fields of forest pest surveillance design and management. We encourage submissions incorporating primary research data, as well as literature reviews and meta-analyses.
Dr. Sarah Facey
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pest monitoring
- surveillance
- pest detection
- invasive species
- pest management
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