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Protection and Management of Urban Parks and Nature Reserves
edited by Xiaoqing Xu, and
submission deadline 26 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 110 | Submission Open
Keywords: green space; urban parks; urban biodiversity; biodiversity conservation; environmental pollution; urban ecosystems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)
Sustainable Wood Market: The Contribution and Challenges of Forest Products for Carbon Neutrality
edited by , and Ján Parobek
submission deadline 27 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7594 | Submission Open
Keywords: carbon neutrality; forest products market and trade; production management; classified forest management; forest carbon sinks; life cycle analysis; carbon footprint; sustainable harvesting; wood industry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
The Influence of Environment Changes on Tree Seedlings
edited by Paulo Trazzi and Maristela Araujo
submission deadline 27 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1026 | Submission Open
Keywords: tree seedlings; clone development; environmental changes; stress tolerance; morphophysiology; silviculture; climate adaptation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
Climate Change Effects on Forest and Peatland Ecosystems submission deadline 27 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 306 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; forest; peatland; carbon cycle; greenhouse gas fluxes; ecosystem resilience; hydrology; rewetting; ecological monitoring; vegetation response
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Pollination and Bee Biodiversity in Forest Ecosystems
edited by John Pascarella and Daniel Bennett
submission deadline 27 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 299 | Submission Open
Keywords: bee diversity; species richness; faunistics; community ecology; pollination effectiveness; conservation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)
Social and Cultural Benefits of Forests Contributing to Human Health and Well-Being
edited by , Xiaofang Zhou and Mingjun Li
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14601 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest ecosystem services; forest management and restoration; social and cultural benefits; forest eco-industry; human well-being; social– ecological system model simulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
Forest Tree Breeding: Genomics and Molecular Biology
edited by Zefu Wang, and Changwei Bi
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2869 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest tree; genomics; molecular biology; breeding; genome evolution; gene function
(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Erosion and Forests: Drivers, Impacts, and Management
edited by Tommaso Baggio, Giacomo Pellegrini and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2418 | Submission Open
Keywords: forests; erosion; sediment fluxes; large wood recruitment; remote sensing; soil degradation; forest restoration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)
Forest and Human Well-Being
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1493 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest ecosystem services; nexus of ecosystem and human well-being; sustainable forest management; climate change adaptation; forest policy; community forestry; forest biodiversity and human welfare
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)
Genetic Variation and Conservation of Forest Species
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1215 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest genetics and genomics; population genetics; adaptation; functional genomics; phylogeography; genetic monitoring; conservation and use of forest genetic resources; management of conservation units
(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Forests That Heal: Importance of Medicinal Trees and Forest Understory Plants Conservation and Use
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1035 | Submission Open
Keywords: medicinal plants; ethnobotany; phytochemical diversity; conservation strategies; sustainable utilization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Production in Forest Nurseries, Field Performance of Seedlings and Natural Regeneration in the Context of Climate Change: 2nd Edition submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 843 | Submission Open
Keywords: seed and seedling quality; cutting; somatic embryogenesis; nursery production; cultural practices; environmental stress; mycorrhizal and bacteria symbioses; field performance; research and development programs adapted to the production chain of tree seedlings; agroforestry products and their valorization; natural regeneration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Ecological Monitoring and Forest Fire Prevention
edited by , Yili Zheng and Luis Ángel Ruiz Fernández
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 589 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest fire prevention; remote sensing; early-warning systems; fuel management; machine learning models; climate change adaptation; bio-diversity conservation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)
Prediction of Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles and Soil Functions in Forest Ecosystems: From Molecular Mechanisms to Landscape Management
edited by , , Fengkui Qian and Hui Li
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 584 | 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)
Impacts of Forest Fire on Ecosystem and Climate-Related Drivers
edited by , Chao Yue and Yuyun Fu
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 502 | Submission Open
Keywords: extreme forest fire; ecosystem impact; climate change; biodiversity loss; ecosystem services; adaptation strategies; successional trajectories
(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)
Drought Impacts on Tree Physiology: Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptive Strategies
edited by Lin Zhu, Danbo Pang and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 495 | 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)
Physiological and Biochemical Properties of Forest Soils: Microbial, Nutrient and Structural Perspectives
edited by , Ozlem Ustundag and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 322 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest soils; soil physiology; microbial ecology; litterfall; soil organic carbon; nutrient dynamics; soil– plant– climate interactions; biogeochemical cycling; soil enzymes; forest canopy effects; climate– soil feedbacks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)
Forests for Soil and Water Conservation: Strategies and Innovations submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 264 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil erosion; remote sensing; land use change; forest ecosystems; forest conservation; climate change; model simulation and scenario analysis; forest management scenario; machine learning; environmental modeling; UAV and multisensor data; spatiotemporal analysis; forested watersheds; watershed management; integrated watershed management; conservation; sustainable land management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)
The Theory and Practice of Realizing the Value of Forest Ecological Products
edited by and Fanbin Kong
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 256 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest ecological products; value realization; public product attribute; common prosperity; digital empowerment; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
Invasive Species in Forest Ecosystems: Ecology and Management submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open
Keywords: invasive species; biological invasion; forest ecosystem; pest management; risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)
Climate Change and Stress Factors on Forest Vegetation: Regulation of Morphological, Physiological and Molecular Characteristics submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 140 | 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)
Sustainable Forest Operations: Technology, Management, and Challenges
edited by Benjamin Engler, and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 139 | 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)
Tree Epigenetic Diversity and Its Role in Tree Adaptation
edited by Ermioni Malliarou and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 135 | 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)
Wood Structures and Wood-Based Composites Under Natural Hazard Loads
edited by and Kei Sawata
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 133 | 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 submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 132 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest resilience; hydraulic stress; water-use efficiency; tree physiological adaptation; climate extremes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Hydrology)
Forest Soil Physical, Chemical and Biological Properties—2nd Edition
edited by , Bruno Campos Mantovanelli and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 127 | 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)
Climate Change and Forest Phenology: Ecophysiological Mechanisms and Impacts
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 120 | 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 Entomology and Phytopathology: Contemporary Challenges in Forest Conservation
edited by Robert Kuźmiński and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 116 | 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 Plants in Ecological Restoration and Disaster Mitigation
edited by Jungtai Lee and Anthony Kwan Leung
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 116 | 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)
Multidimensional Stakeholder Engagement in Forest Governance and Certification Systems
edited by Aureliu-Florin Hălălișan
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 108 | 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 Management for High-Quality Timber: Linking Silviculture, Wood Quality, and End-Use Value
edited by and Bartłomiej Naskrent
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 91 | 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
submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5332 | 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 submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1606 | 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
submission deadline 10 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 900 | 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 , Fengjun Zhao, and
submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3468 | 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 and Darius Kavaliauskas
submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 210 | 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 submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 108 | 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 submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5665 | 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, and Peipei Jiang
submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1867 | 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, and
submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1200 | 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, and
submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1045 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil organic carbon; soil nutrients; litter decomposition
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)
Management of Forest Pests and Diseases—3rd Edition submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 559 | 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 Disturbance Monitoring by Remote Sensing: Advancements and Applications
edited by , , and Jinsong Chen
submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 248 | 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)
Forest Plant, Soil, Microorganisms and Their Interactions—2nd Edition
edited by Fuxi Shi, , Yang Zhang and Jiusheng Ren
submission deadline 27 Mar 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5004 | 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, and
submission deadline 28 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 838 | 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 2316 | 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 submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1946 | 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 submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 556 | 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 and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 7833 | Submission Open
Keywords: fungal pathogens; plant diseases; forest pathology; pathogenicity; disease management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)
Greening Our Cities: Urban Forests as a Nature-Based Solution for Air Pollution and Urban Heat Stress submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4219 | 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)
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