Forests

Ecophysiological Responses of Tropical Plants to Environmental Stresses

edited by

, Aaron Ramirez and Achim Häger

submission deadline 28 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2821 | Submission Open

Keywords: acclimation; climate change; drought; ecophysiology; fire ecology; functional ecology; leaf economics; allocation

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

Effects of Climate Change on Tree-Ring Growth—2nd Edition

edited by

Qiang Li

,

Yafeng Wang

, Liang Shi and Xianliang Zhang

submission deadline 28 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2189 | Submission Open

Keywords: tree ring; dendroecology; stable isotopes; extreme climate events; drought; forest growth; climate changes; trees and shrubs

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

Modeling of Forest Dynamics and Species Distribution

edited by Youngsang Kwon

submission deadline 28 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1529 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest dynamics; species distribution; Climate change; ecological modeling; remote sensing; GIS; biodiversity; conservation; ecosystem services; land-use change

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

Distribution, Species Richness, and Diversity of Wildlife in Forests

edited by Lucas Gonçalves da Silva,

Guilherme S. T. Garbino

and Felipe Pessoa da Silva

submission deadline 29 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 207 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest; biodiversity; biogeography; wildlife; forest biomes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)

Plant Invasions in Forest Ecosystems: Understanding Arrival, Expansion and Management

edited by Jun Liu and Zacchaeus Compson

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 19906 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant invasions; plant expansion; forest ecosystems; ecosystem resilience; biodiversity; management strategies; ecological restoration

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

Forest Dynamics Under Climate and Land Use Change

edited by

Lucia Santorufo

and Giorgia Santini

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5051 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation dynamics; soil functioning; soil organisms; restoration; modeling

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

Forest-Based Biomass for Bioenergy

edited by

Sam Van Holsbeeck

and

Natascia Magagnotti

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4111 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest biomass; woody biomass; bioenergy; biofuels; biomass recovery

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

New Approaches to Wood Protection and Preservation

edited by

Ioannis A. Barboutis

and

Vasiliki Kamperidou

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3930 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood impregnation; surface modification; chemical treatment; preservation; wood improvement; archaeological wood; cultural heritage; wood modification; wood treatment; durability

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

Drought Impacts on Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth

edited by

Xinsheng Liu

and

Rosana López Rodríguez

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3770 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; drought; extreme drought events; tree growth; wood anatomy; dendrometer; sap flow; micro-coring; ecophysiology; dendroecology; ecohydrology; drought resistance and resilience; forest management

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

Monitoring Tree Phenology under Global Change

edited by Serena Antonucci and

Roberto Tognetti

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2084 | Submission Open

Keywords: xylogenesis; spring phenology; autumn phenology; internet of things (IoT); environmental effects; climate change

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

Advances in Tree Improvement and Biotechnology: Paving the Way for a Sustainable Forestry

edited by Chen Ding, Hao Chen, Ran Zhou and Jean-François Trontin

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1776 | Submission Open

Keywords: tree improvement; molecular breeding; forest biotechnology; forest health; biomass; conservation; sustainable forestry; genomic selection

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

Soil Organic Matter Dynamics in Forests

edited by

Minhuang Wang

and

Robert G. Qualls

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1612 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; ecosystem complexity; ecological restoration; forest disturbance; land use change; land cover change; land management practice; molecular analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Soil and Water Conservation and Forest Ecosystem Restoration

edited by

Jifeng Deng

and Juergen Knauer

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1097 | Submission Open

Keywords: water management; forest ecology; silviculture; soils and hydrology; urban and community forestry; forest ecosystem restoration; water use efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Hydrology)

Conservation of Birds and Their Habitats in Forest Landscapes

edited by Laura Marisa Bellis and

Luis Osvaldo Rivera

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1042 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape; native forest; management; birds; degradation; habitat; ecosystem functionality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)

Diagnosing and Managing Forest and Tree Diseases: Advances, Challenges and Strategies

edited by

Pratima Devkota

and

Kateryna Davydenko

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 858 | Submission Open

Keywords: forests; forest pathology; tree physiology; invasive species; disease diagnosis; tree defenses

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Biological Control and Management of Tree Diseases and Insect Pests in Forests

edited by

Han Xue

and

Ning Jiang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 813 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant pathology; parasitoids; natural enemies; biological control; mechanisms; induced systemic resistance; ecology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Wood Drying and Other Heat Treatments of Wood

edited by

Bogdan Bedelean

,

Mihaela Câmpean

and

Aleš Straže

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 720 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood drying; water migration in wood; heat and mass transfer; drying schedules; drying quality; drying stress; airflow in kiln; modeling and optimization

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

Innovative Approaches to Modifying Wood and Wood-Based Material Properties in the 21st Century

edited by

Miklós Bak

,

Tamás Hofmann

and

Fanni Fodor

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 674 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood modification; nanotechnology; wood durability enhancement; life cycle analysis; color stability of wood; sustainability in the wood industry; improvement of wood-based materials; biopolymer impregnation of wood; wood recycling

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

The Conservation and Management of Agro- and Forest Ecosystems in a Changing Climate

edited by

Monika Toleikienė

, Darius Kavaliauskas and

Viktorija Vaštakaitė-Kairienė

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 368 | Submission Open

Keywords: conservation; biodiversity; sustainable management; climate change adaptation; resilience of ecosystems

Innovations in Wood Coating for Enhanced Durability and Protection

edited by

Ondřej Dvořák

and

Monika Sarvašová Kvietková

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 218 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanoparticles; antibacterial nanocoatings and nanocomposites; adhesion; self-repair; coatings; surface

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

Imaging Sensors for Monitoring Forest Dynamics: 2nd Edition

edited by

,

,

,

and

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 193 | Submission Open

Keywords: imaging technique; imaging sensor; image process system; forest dynamics; monitoring; remote sensing; precision forestry; machine learning

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

Urban Trees Under Climate Change: Growth, Environmental Benefits and Potentials

edited by

Astrid Reischl

submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1614 | Submission Open

Keywords: biomass; ecosystem services; size– growth– ecosystem service relationships; tree management; tree size; urban greening; urban heat island

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)

Ecosystem Services in Urban and Peri-Urban Landscapes

edited by

Remus Creţan

and

Mihai Razvan Nita

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7560 | Submission Open

Keywords: recreational and cultural ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban landscapes; ecosystem services of specific environmental dimensions (air; water; land use/land cover); ecosystem services for urban and peri-urban gardens; farmland ecosystems within urban and peri-urban areas; methods and indicators for assessing ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban spaces; spatial and temporal variations in ecosystem services at the urban and peri-urban scale; planning and management of ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban areas

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)

Properties and Uses of Value-Added Wood-Based Products and Composites

edited by

Francesco Negro

and

Roberto Zanuttini

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3499 | Submission Open

Keywords: characterizationdevelopment and innovationsolid wood and structural timbervalue addedvalorizationwood processingwood compositeswood-based products

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

Application and Development of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Forestry Management

edited by Weijun Xie,

Ying Liu

and

Deyong Yang

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 329 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision breeding; phenotypic analysis; forest mapping; wildfire monitoring; pest management; autonomous harvesting systems; defect detection; wildlife conservation; forest food resource management

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

Impacts of Extreme Climate Events on Tree Growth and Carbon Dynamics

edited by Xianliang Zhang and Zhongjie Shi

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 233 | Submission Open

Keywords: extreme climate events; drought stress; tree growth; carbon dynamics; forest productivity

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

Detection and Identification of Forest Cover Change

edited by

Marcos Benedito Schimalski

,

Veraldo Liesenberg

and

Rorai Pereira Martins-Neto

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; active sensors; passive sensors; monitoring; processing; extract; forest; machine learning

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

Physiological Responses of Woody Plants to Elevated CO₂, Drought, and Climate Variations from Local to Global

edited by

Luis Ubaldo Castruita-Esparza

,

Arian Correa Díaz

,

Julián Cerano Paredes

,

Gerónimo Quiñónez Barraza

and

Concepción Luján Álvarez

submission deadline 19 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1650 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; physiological responses; drought stress; woody plants; forests; temperature change; tree growth; photosynthesis; water-use efficiency; forest physiological

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

Pollen Monitoring of Forest Communities

edited by

Federico Di Rita

,

Roberta Pini

, Juan Ochando Tomás and

Fabrizio Michelangeli

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2037 | Submission Open

Keywords: pollen; palynology; forest communities; ecosystems; land use changes; historical ecology

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

Ecological Preferences and Bioindicative Role of Bryophytes in Forest Ecosystems

edited by

Grzegorz J. Wolski

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 279 | Submission Open

Keywords: bryophytes; forest communities; bioindication; ecological preferences

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

Advances in Testing the Biological Durability and Quality Assurance of Wood-Based Materials and Products

edited by

Tripti Singh

and

Christian Brischke

submission deadline 22 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17881 | Submission Open

Keywords: field test; fungal decay; laboratory test; marine borer attack; performance; quality control; staining fungi; termite attack; test methodology; wood modification; wood protection; wood deterioration

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

Application of Remote Sensing in Vegetation Dynamics and Ecology—2nd Edition

edited by Wangping Li and

Donghui Shangguan

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1686 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation type; response to climate change; ecological change; response to human activity; remote sensing

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

Biogeochemical Cycles in Forests: 2nd Edition

edited by

Hao Zhang

and

Robert G. Qualls

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 686 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest ecosystem; nutrient circle; soil microorganism; ecological stoichiometry; global change; carbon pool; element cycle model

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Advanced Studies in Gene Expression in Woody Plants

edited by Long-Hai Zou, Ming-Bing Zhou and

Xianhai Zhao

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open

Keywords: woody plants; gene expression; genomics; bioinformatics; wood formation; stress tolerance; disease resistance; epigenetic mechanisms; transcription factors; functional genomics

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

Advanced Research and Technology on Biomass Materials in Forestry

edited by

Saman Ghahri

, Bingnan Yuan and

Viktor Savov

submission deadline 26 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4350 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural and industrial waste utilization; biomass materials valorization; biomass conversion; bio-adhesives; biomaterials; crosslinking; eco-friendly forest products; technical lignin; vegetable tannins; sustainable production

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

Somatic Embryogenesis and Organogenesis on Tree Species: 2nd Edition

edited by

Marcos Edel Martinez-Montero

and

Judit Dobránszki

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4282 | Submission Open

Keywords: somatic embryogenesis; tree biotechnology; tree products; cryopreservation; mass propagation; forest; genetic diversity; ecosystem; climate change; plant breeding

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

Climate and Land-Use Change Effects on the Biogeography of Woody Plant Species and Biodiversity Conservation

edited by

Kostas Kougioumoutzis

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3433 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity patterns; conservation biology and prioritization; ecosystems services; ethnobotany; extinction risk; genetic; taxonomic; phylogenetic; and functional diversity; plant– pollinator networks; phylogeography; physiology; species distribution modelling

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

Application of Machine-Learning Methods in Forestry

edited by

Leiguang Wang

and

Chinsu Lin

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2725 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; forestry; remote sensing; forest management; forest inventory; growth prediction; health management; forest structure parameter inversion; fire prediction; tree species identification; pest and disease monitoring; biomass estimation; vegetation mapping; spatial distribution

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

Forest Pathogen Detection, Diagnosis and Control

edited by

Roberto Faedda

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1716 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest pathogens; diagnostics tools; early detection; identification; forest health; forest management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Wildfire Behavior and the Effects of Climate Change in Forests

edited by

Gilberto Vaz

and

Jorge R.N. Raposo

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1417 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest fires; wildfire behavior; climate change; extreme wildfires; wildfire modeling; wildfire management; forest management; forest and fire technologies; forest landscape and fire data

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

Interactions of Plants, Soil Nutrients, and Microorganisms in the Karst Forest Ecosystems

edited by Dan Xiao,

Jie Zhao

, Wei Zhang, Hanqing Wu and Peilei Hu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16092 | Submission Open

Keywords: nutrient cycling; vegetation recovery; land-use change; climate warming; microbial biodiversity; soil carbon; soil nitrogen; plant‒soil nutrient interactions; bedrock geochemistry; karst ecosystem

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

Soundscape in Urban Forests—2nd Edition

edited by

Xin-Chen Hong

,

Jiang Liu

and

Guangyu Wang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16085 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural soundscape; ecological pattern of soundscape; multi-sensory interaction; soundscape resource management; environmental behavior; environmental health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)

Biomass Estimation and Carbon Stocks in Forest Ecosystems: 3rd Edition

edited by

Andrzej Węgiel

and

Adrian Łukowski

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 15369 | Submission Open

Keywords: biomass allocation; allometric equations; growth models; biomass expansion factors; remote sensing; bioenergy; carbon and nutrient storage; ecosystem biodiversity; soil productivity; forest management

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

Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Natural Resource Management of Forest Ecosystems

edited by

Pablito M. López-Serrano

and

Marín Pompa-García

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12839 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; geographic information systems (GISs); machine learning; forest management; geoprocessing and spatial analysis; unmanned aerial vehicles

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

Advances in Forest Cover Change and Its Ecological and Environmental Effects—2nd Edition

edited by

Wei Shui

and

Junyu Qi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9630 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest land cover; environmental factors; ecological effects; environmental effects; biodiversity; ecological geography

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

Forest and Urban Green Space Ecosystem Services and Management

edited by

Jianping Wu

, Xin Xiong, Jianling Li and

Zhongbing Chang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9173 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest ecosystem; urban green space ecosystem; ecosystem services; forest management; climate change; land use and cover change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)

Advances in Forest Carbon Sequestration and Emission Reduction Potential

edited by

Jian Xiang

, Tiehu He and Gang Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9069 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest carbon sequestration; GHGs emission; soil organic carbon; nitrogen; forestation; deforestation; CO2; CH4; N2O

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

Advancing Forest Ecosystem Sustainability: Integrating Plant Physiology, Microbial Ecology, and Spatial Technologies

edited by

Nan Xu

and Xuechen Yang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6443 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest plant physiology; soil microbial ecology; GIS applications; nutrient cycling; biodiversity; ecosystem modeling; stress physiology; climate change adaptation; spatial analysis

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

Growth and Stand Dynamics of Unmanaged and Managed Forests Under Global Change

edited by

Maciej Pach

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6288 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; adaptive forest management; old-growth stands; stand dynamics; growth models; resistance; resilience; recovery; silvicultural prescriptions

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

Tree Breeding: Genetic Diversity, Differentiation and Conservation

edited by

Hanna Fuchs

, Ewelina Ratajczak and

Konrad Celiński

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4188 | Submission Open

Keywords: genetic diversity; tree breeding; conservation genetics; genomic selection; molecular markers; forest ecosystems; genetic differentiation; climate change adaptation; rare species conservation; population structure

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

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