Forests for a Better Future: Sustainability, Innovation and Interdisciplinarity

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the First International Electronic Conference on Forests (IECF2020) (https://sciforum.net/conference/IECF2020), to be held from 15–30 November 2020. We are looking forward to seeing you at our event. The Special Issue will publish selected papers from the Proceedings volume associated with our event on sciforum.net, an online platform for hosting scholarly e-conferences and discussion groups.

Through IECF2020, we aim to promote and advance the exciting and rapidly changing field of forestry and forest ecology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Forest Ecology, Management and Restoration;
2. Forest Genetics, Ecophysiology and Biology;
3. Forests and Urban Forest Sustainability;
4. Forest Inventory, Quantitative Methods and Remote Sensing;
5. Wood Science, Production Chains and Fuelwood;
6. Forest Operations and Engineering;
7. Fire Risks and Other Natural Hazards.

The papers that will be considered for publication are those that attract the most interest on the web or that provide innovative contributions. These papers will be subject to peer review, and are published with the aim of the rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications. We hope this conference series will grow rapidly in the future, and become recognized as a new venue and way in which to present new developments related to the field of forests. The scientific committee cordially welcome you all, and we look forward to your contributions.

Dr. Angela Lo Monaco
Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng
Prof. Dr. Om P. Rajora
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Forests is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.