Ecophysiology of Forest Trees and Responses to Environmental Changes

Dear Colleagues,

Environmental changes, e.g., increasing CO₂ and O₃, nitrogen deposition, soil degradation, and global warming, have become important environmental issues. These problems of ‘Environmental Changes’ are now spreading worldwide. Rather than viewing environmental changes as a threat that will adversely affect forest trees, it is also an opportunity to develop innovative approaches in forest tree ecophysiology, management, and forest conservation. Understanding how the ecological and physiological responses in forest trees are affected by an environmental change is therefore fundamental to any sound prediction of future environmental changes. This Special Issue of Forests is calling for original, innovative papers on anatomical, morphological, ecological, and physiological tree responses, including experimental studies, monitoring approaches, and models, to environmental changes at all levels of organization, from the seedling phase to the mature stage.

Dr. Dongsu Choi
Guest Editor

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