Modeling of Forest Growth and Stand Dynamics
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2023) | Viewed by 1707
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest modeling; silviculture; sustainable forest management; lidar remote sensing; applied philosophy; experiential learning; ethics; resilience psychology; philosophy of forest; rural landscaping
Interests: linear regression; soil; plants; hydrology; sustainability management; rivers; environmental science; water quality; prediction; statistics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Models of trees and stands have existed for many decades; there has recently been a change in focus towards integrated forest ecosystem functioning. Models represent valuable tools for tackling issues like ecosystem carbon sequestration, helping us to understand the economic implications of silvicultural interventions and providing insights on the impacts of climate change on forests. This Special Issue will focus on comprehensive methods for the empirical modeling of forest growth and stand dynamics, focused mainly on uneven-aged stands. These stands are the consequence of silvicultural treatments in an area of forestry also called selection, continuous cover, multi-aged (individual trees or gaps) and close-to-nature forestry. The Special Issue may open by describing methods for quantifying individual trees or gaps, size-class and individual-tree and gaps approaches for modeling forest stand dynamics in temperate, boreal and tropical forests.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Individual trees modeling in uneven aged forests;
- Forest stand modeling and dynamics in continuous and discontinuous gaps;
- Size classes models for forest stand dynamics;
- Carbon sequestration;
- Implications on climate change;
- Economic alternatives.
Dr. José Javier Gorgoso-Varela
Prof. Dr. José De Jesús Navar-Chaidez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- uneven-aged silviculture
- individual trees
- gaps
- carbon sequestration
- climate change
- economic alternatives
