Forests

Climate Change and Stress Factors on Forest Vegetation: Regulation of Morphological, Physiological and Molecular Characteristics

edited by

Ahmed Abou El-Yazied

,

Yanqun Xu

and

Mohamed F.M Ibrahim

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 109 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; forest vegetation; global warming; stomatal conductance; carbon dioxide; shading; environmental stress; morphological and physiological adaptations; photosynthesis; plant signaling; senescence and aging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)

Wood Structures and Wood-Based Composites Under Natural Hazard Loads

edited by

Ryu Noda

and Kei Sawata

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 107 | Submission Open

Keywords: wooden structures; wood-based composites; natural hazard loads; strength performance of the wooden materials; strength performance of the joints; stability performance as structures; numerical modeling; wooden disaster

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)

Forests and Climate Change: Hydraulic Responses and Adaptation Mechanisms Under Extreme Events

edited by

Simona Altieri

and

Francesco Niccoli

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 107 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest resilience; hydraulic stress; water-use efficiency; tree physiological adaptation; climate extremes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Hydrology)

Invasive Species in Forest Ecosystems: Ecology and Management

edited by

Min-Jung Kim

,

Youngwoo Nam

and

Jong-Kook Jung

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open

Keywords: invasive species; biological invasion; forest ecosystem; pest management; risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Prediction of Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles and Soil Functions in Forest Ecosystems: From Molecular Mechanisms to Landscape Management

edited by

Shuai Wang

,

Qianlai Zhuang

, Fengkui Qian and Hui Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest ecosystem; carbon– nitrogen cycle; soil function prediction; biogeochemical processes; machine learning; landscape management; adaptation to climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Sustainable Forest Operations: Technology, Management, and Challenges

edited by Benjamin Engler,

Ferréol Berendt

and

Francesco Latterini

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open

Keywords: harvesting technology; digitalization; forest work science; labor; tree planting; timber supply chain; forest ergonomics; quality optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Operations and Engineering)

Drought Impacts on Tree Physiology: Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptive Strategies

edited by Lin Zhu, Danbo Pang and

Domingo Sancho-Knapik

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 102 | Submission Open

Keywords: drought resilience; hydraulic failure; stomatal regulation; osmotic adjustment; water-carbon balance; phenotypic plasticity; drought monitoring; multi-omics integration; ecohydrological modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)

Forest Plants in Ecological Restoration and Disaster Mitigation

edited by Jungtai Lee and Anthony Kwan Leung

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open

Keywords: root-soil interactions; nature-based solutions; disaster monitoring; slope stabilization; root biomechanics; root system; soil stability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)

Tree Epigenetic Diversity and Its Role in Tree Adaptation

edited by Ermioni Malliarou and

Evangelia V. Avramidou

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 91 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; epigenetic diversity; adaptation; forest species; molecular methods; DNA methylation; conservation; histone modification; non-coding RNAs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Molecular Biology)

Climate Change and Forest Phenology: Ecophysiological Mechanisms and Impacts

edited by

Jiaxin Wang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 88 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest phenology; global warming; tree physiology; drought and heat stress; carbon and water fluxes; functional traits; phenological plasticity; experimental ecology; remote sensing; tree-ring phenology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)

Forest Soil Physical, Chemical and Biological Properties—2nd Edition

edited by

Milton Cesar Costa Campos

, Bruno Campos Mantovanelli and

Flavio Pereira de Oliveira

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 84 | Submission Open

Keywords: physical attributes of forest soils; chemical attributes of forest soils; biological attributes of forest soils; forest soil management; tropical forest land uses; carbon in forest soils; nutrient input in forest soils

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Multidimensional Stakeholder Engagement in Forest Governance and Certification Systems

edited by Aureliu-Florin Hălălișan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest certification; stakeholders’ engagement; standards; voluntary certification; forest governance frameworks; innovative participatory approaches

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)

Forest Entomology and Phytopathology: Contemporary Challenges in Forest Conservation

edited by Robert Kuźmiński and

Marta Bełka

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest health; climate change; biotic threats; pathogenic fungi; forest pests; invasive species; abiotic stress; urban forestry; forest biosecurity; tree resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Forest Management for High-Quality Timber: Linking Silviculture, Wood Quality, and End-Use Value

edited by

Tomasz Jelonek

and Bartłomiej Naskrent

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 58 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood quality; forest management; climate change; silvicultural practices; wood value; end-use performance; xylem development; timber utilization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Forestry—Second Edition

edited by

Yunfei Liu

submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4031 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligencemachine learningdeep learningforest managementforest protection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Forest Fire: Landscape Patterns, Risk Prediction and Fuels Management

edited by

Luís Reis

and

Jorge R.N. Raposo

submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 879 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire behavior; fire events; forest fires; fire management; fire safety; fire technology; moisture fuel; climate change; fuel management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)

Remote Sensing in Monitoring Forest Fires and Other Disturbances

edited by

José Aranha

submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 825 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural fires; fire recurrence; land use; land cover; vegetation indices; map algebra; Landsat; Sentinel 2; regression analysis; post-fire recovery; fire hazard indices; remote sensing and GIS

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Advanced Technologies for Forest Fire Detection and Monitoring

edited by

Change Zheng

, Fengjun Zhao,

Xingdong Li

and

Yunfei Liu

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2034 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest fire; fire danger forecast; early detection; spread prediction; artificial intelligence; remote sensing; UAV; IoT; multi-source data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)

Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding—Identification and Propagation of Hybrids

edited by

Girmantė Jurkšienė

and Darius Kavaliauskas

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 168 | Submission Open

Keywords: hybridisation of trees; hybrid detection; DNA; microsatellite markers; gene flow; morphometric leaf and seed traits; introgression

(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Molecular Biology)

Wildlife in Altered Forestry Habitats: Implications for Conservation and Applications

edited by

Ovidiu Ionescu

and

Georgeta Ionescu

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 62 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildlife; coexistence; wildlife management; animal behaviour

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Forestry in the Contemporary Bioeconomy

edited by

Marios Trigkas

and

Dimitra Lazaridou

submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4707 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest bioeconomy; circular economy; forest value chain; entrepreneurship; innovation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)

Drought Tolerance in Trees: Growth and Physiology

edited by Guangqi Zhang,

Yang Cao

and Peipei Jiang

submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1026 | Submission Open

Keywords: drought tolerance; drought resistance; tree physiology; tree growth; water stress; hydraulic efficiency; stomatal regulation; xylem cavitation; climate resilience; forest adaptation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)

Forest Growth, Soil Properties and Climate

edited by José Alexandre Varanda Andrade,

Carlos A. Alexandre

and

Ana Cristina Gonçalves

submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 936 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest growth; forest soil; soil properties; site quality; forest productivity; forest climatology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Litter Decomposition and Soil Nutrient Cycling in Forests

edited by Shengqiang Wang,

Ziliang Zhang

and

Yili Guo

submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil organic carbon; soil nutrients; litter decomposition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Forest Disturbance Monitoring by Remote Sensing: Advancements and Applications

edited by

Longlong Zhao

,

Chao Ding

,

Biyao Zhang

and Jinsong Chen

submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; data fusion and AI; forest disturbances; fire risk and detection; pest and disease detection; disturbance attribution; ecological impact assessment; forest management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Management of Forest Pests and Diseases—3rd Edition

edited by

Young-Seuk Park

,

Won Il Choi

and

Dae-Seong Lee

submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest management; invasive species; alien species; risk assessment; pests; insects; diseases; monitoring; assessment; ecology; effects of climate change; effects of environment change; outbreak; modelling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Forest Plant, Soil, Microorganisms and Their Interactions—2nd Edition

edited by Fuxi Shi,

Xianwei Wang

, Yang Zhang and Jiusheng Ren

submission deadline 27 Mar 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4022 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant functional traits; soil carbon cycling; soil nitrogen cycling; soil phosphorus cycling; soil microbial diversity; plant– soil interactions; microbe– plant– soil interplay

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Urban Forestry: Management of Sustainable Landscapes

edited by Dengkai Chi,

Jingli Yan

and

Jia Wang

submission deadline 28 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban forestry; nature-based solutions; sustainable landscape management; urban heat island; air pollution; ecosystem services; remote sensing; biodiversity; urban forest planning; equity of urban forests

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)

Mangrove Ecosystems in the Face of Climate Change: Resilience, Adaptation, and Conservation Strategies

edited by

, Shuguang Xie,

, Chunhua Yan,

and

submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1753 | Submission Open

Keywords: mangrove ecosystems; climate resilience; blue carbon; coastal adaptation; conservation strategies; carbon sequestration; ecosystem services; mangrove restoration; deforestation; policy frameworks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Ecological Responses of Forests to Climate Change

edited by

Zhongmin Wu

,

Dastan Bamwesigye

and

Guangcan Yu

submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 723 | Submission Open

Keywords: extreme weather; abnormal litter; evaluation indicator; physiological responses of forests; hydrological cycles; fauna and microorganisms in forests; soil’ s physical and chemical properties

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)

Sustainable and Suitable Ecological Management of Forest Plantation

edited by

Manuela Plutino

and

Andrea R. Proto

submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 239 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem services; sustainable forest management; suitable ecological management; conifer plantations; wood production; adaptation climate change; mitigation climate change; forest operations; wood quality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Operations and Engineering)

Pathogenic Fungi in Forest

edited by

Keumchul Shin

and

Hyunkyu Sang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5759 | Submission Open

Keywords: fungal pathogens; plant diseases; forest pathology; pathogenicity; disease management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Elemental Cycling in Forest Soils

edited by Shengli Wang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3041 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil nutrients; stoichiometry; soil organic carbon sequestration; ecological restoration; heavy metals; soil environmental quality; water environmental quality; forest management; different forest types

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Greening Our Cities: Urban Forests as a Nature-Based Solution for Air Pollution and Urban Heat Stress

edited by

Luminița Mărmureanu

,

Diana Pitar

and

Ștefan Leca

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2197 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban forests; air quality; particulate matter (PM₂.₅; PM₁₀); ozone; urban heat islands (UHIs); heat-related stress; ecosystem services; green infrastructure; vegetation– pollution interactions; remote sensing; urban resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)

Advances in Sustainable Processing of Wood and Lignocellulosic Materials: From Molecular Engineering to Industrial Implementation

edited by

Pablo Lopez-Albarran

and

José Guadalupe Rutiaga-Quiñones

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2044 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood chemistry; lignocellulosic materials; molecular engineering; sustainable wood adhesives; advanced wood composites; antifungal wood treatments; physical properties of wood; chemical modification of wood; renewable biomaterials; industrial applications of wood

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)

Woody Plant Phenology in a Changing Climate, 2nd Edition

edited by Yanjun Du and Miaogen Shen

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2017 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation phenology; forest; woody species; remote sensing; species distribution shifts; vegetation; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Meteorology and Climate Change)

Sustainable Economics and Management of Forest Resources and Products

edited by

Francisco Manuel Parejo-Moruno

,

Antonio Miguel Linares Luján

,

José Francisco Rangel Preciado

,

José Álvarez-García

and

Carlos Manuel Faísca

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 1042 | Submission Open

Keywords: innovation in forest products and processes; new applications and uses of forest products; uses of cork products in comparative perspective; uses of cork products in historical perspective; forest production chain and climate change; circular economy in forest production; environmental and economic sustainability in the management of forest resources; carbon footprint in forest products; industrial ecosystems in forest sector; forest production chain; forest history

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)

Long-Term Monitoring and Driving Forces of Forest Cover

edited by

Jianwan Ji

,

Bing Guo

, Eshetu Shifaw and Rui Zhang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 988 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest cover monitoring; driving forces of forest change; forest cover change; long-term monitoring; remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Operations and Engineering)

Advances in Detection and Identification of Insect Pests and Pathogens: 2nd Edition

edited by

Tomasz Oszako

,

Tadeusz Malewski

and

Piotr Borowik

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 950 | Submission Open

Keywords: insect pest; pathogen; tree health; pest management; pest monitoring; pest detection; diagnostic methods; resistographs; non-invasive methods; genetic detection methods; NGS; electronic noses; electronic tongues

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Characterization and Numerical Simulation of Solid Wood and Engineered Wood Products

edited by

André Luís Christóforo

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 871 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid wood; engineered wood products; mechanical characterization; numerical modeling; finite element analysis; wood composites; cross-laminated timber (CLT); glued laminated timber (glulam); multi-scale simulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)

Managing Forest Wildfires in Climate Changes: New Paradigms and Challenges—2nd Edition

edited by

Rafael Coll Delgado

and

Marcos Gervásio Pereira

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 783 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; forest fires; forest soils; gross primary productivity; carbon emissions; deforestation; remote sensing; fire meteorology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)

Forest Ecology and Resource Monitoring Based on Sensors, Signal and Image Processing, 2nd Edition

edited by Yili Zheng,

Paul Sestras

and Yue Zhao

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 712 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest remote sensing; sensor technology (e.g.; LiDAR; hyperspectral imaging; UAV sensors); image and signal processing; machine learning in forest ecology; forest biomass estimation; ecosystem health monitoring; data fusion (multimodal sensors); AI-driven forest management; climate change and forest dynamics; IoT in forest monitoring; edge computing for forest data; tree species classification; forest carbon stock assessment; real-time disturbance detection (e.g.; wildfires; pests)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Operations and Engineering)

Tree and Shrub Bark: Management, Sustainable Production, and Opportunities in the Forest Bioeconomy

edited by

Joana Amaral Paulo

and

Helena Pereira

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 475 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-wood forest product; cork; cinnamomum; quinine; pau d’ arco bark; Cambodia bark; forest management; tannins; innovation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)

Forest Resources Inventory, Monitoring, and Assessment

edited by Weisheng Zeng

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 388 | Submission Open

Keywords: national forest inventory; forest management inventory; integrated monitoring; biomass and carbon monitoring; remote sensing application; ecosystem services assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)

Machining Properties of Wood and Advances in Wood Cutting

edited by

Daniel Chuchała

and

Kazimierz Orłowski

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 207 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood; sawing; machining; cutting force; cutting power; quality; cutting tool

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)

Reviews on Innovative Monitoring and Diagnostics for Forest Health

edited by

Young-Seuk Park

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 117 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest health; pest; pathogen; climate change; disturbance; management; policy; monitoring; methods; innovative approach

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution of Trees

edited by

Justyna A. Nowakowska

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open

Keywords: adaptive evolution/selection; climate resilience; conservation genetics/genomics; genomic plasticity; environmental adaptation; epigenomics; management of forest genetic resources; molecular evolution; population genetics; proteomics; transcriptomics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Molecular Biology)

Recent Scientific Developments in Bamboo Science and Wood Biomaterials

edited by