New Technical Advances: Explore Forest Landscape Ecology and Biodiversity Using Geographic Information Science

Dear Colleagues,

Science and technology have propelled advances of forest-related research and forest management. The emergence of landscape ecology, over the past few decades, provided a new perspective in traditional forest research, building on the rich ecological theories of disturbance, succession, and equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics of forest ecosystems processes. It is now widely acknowledged that the future status of a forest is constrained by both local scale (stand) and large-scale (landscape) processes. From a technological perspective, geographical information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and computer simulation models have benefited greatly from the rapid development of computing capacity, easy to operate hand-held devices, the state-of-art application packages, and rapid accumulation of remotely sensed and systematic inventory data. Thus, many forest researches have achieved a new quality that can potentially help to improve forest diversity and sustainability around the world.

In light of these advances, we organized this Special Issue, “Forest Landscape Ecology and Biodiversity Using Geographic Information Science”. The Special Issue covers the topics from visualizing forest change under changing environments, spatial trends in tree species habitats, migration potentials, and capabilities to cope with a changing climate, drone-based forest structure mapping and 3D fuel modeling: Next generation spatial analysis, to spatially-explicit forest landscape modeling. These topics feed the ongoing quest for new theories and techniques in forest research and management.

Prof. Dr. Hong S. He
Guest Editor
Dr. Wen J. Wang
Dr. Frank R. Thompson
Co-Guest Editors

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