Forest Ecosystem Resilience: Stomatal Regulation and Ecophysiological Responses to Disturbances
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 69
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant ecophysiology; stomatal regulation; hydraulics; trees; drought
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Dear Colleagues,
The ecosystems of forests are severely affected by environmental stressors such as drought, heat, and land-use change, and their resilience largely depends on the ecophysiological responses of plants, particularly stomatal regulation. Stomata control gas exchange and water loss through leaves in response to extreme conditions. This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the most recent advances in ecophysiological mechanisms and stomatal regulation that underpin forest resilience under both abiotic and biotic stresses. Overall, this Special Issue seeks to present selected contributions on advances in stomatal responses, signaling networks, hydraulic traits, and physiological trade-offs in forest species exposed to drought, heat, salinity, and other environmental disturbances.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following potential topics:
- Stomatal regulation in plants;
- Plant resilience strategies;
- Leaf hydraulics in forest plants;
- Adaptive plasticity;
- Plant physiological trade-offs;
- Forest ecosystem recovery dynamics;
- Drought impact;
- Heat stress.
Dr. Md. Mahadi Hasan
Dr. Xu-Dong Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant ecophysiology
- stomatal control
- drought
- leaf hydraulics
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