Forests

edited by Jiangkun Zheng,

and

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1704 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem services; hillslope and watershed hydrology; soil moisture; runoff path; forest management; sediment dynamics; forest operation; land restoration

(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 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1397 | 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)

Influence of Environmental Changes on Forest Soil Quality and Health: 2nd Edition

edited by

Yuanying Peng

,

Xiaoyong Chen

and

Wende Yan

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1208 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil quality; soil carbon pool; nutrient cycle; soil respiration; forest management; phytoremediation; environmental change; soil property; ecological stoichiometry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Recent Advances in Tree Genetics and Genomics

edited by

Weiwei Zhang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 847 | Submission Open

Keywords: tree genetics; forest genomics; molecular breeding; CRISPR-Cas9 applications; gene function identification; enrichment of nutrient elements; stress resilience mechanisms

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

Development and Properties of Wood Fiber-Based Products

edited by

Ida Poljansek

,

Viljem Vek

and

Primož Oven

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 242 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood; properties; wood fibers; new products; reinforcement; new functionalities; bioactivities; modification of rheological properties; barrier of oxygen; bark; lignocellulosic biomass; chemistry; structure; cellulose; lignin; hemicelluloses; decomposition; nanocrystalline cellulose; nanofibrillated cellulose; nanolignin; application of building blocks of lignocellulosic biomass; advanced methods; characterization; bionanocomposites; biopolymers; biodegradable

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

Wildfire and Forest Resistance and Resilience

edited by

Marcos Francos

and

Víctor Fernández-García

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 188 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest fire; post-fire recovery; ecosystem restoration; restoration of fire regimes; fuel characteristics and management; forest management; decision making

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

Wood Preservation and Protection

edited by

Katie M. Ohno

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 186 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood durability; wood protection; wood treatments; wood modification; surface treatments; pressure treatments; naturally durable wood

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

AI Applications in Forest Fires

edited by Zhong Zheng,

Jinfei Wang

and

Bin Zou

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 171 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest fires; machine learning analysis; geospatial deep learning; artificial intelligence; geospatial data; AI-driven system

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

Biodiversity and Ecology of Forest Ecosystems: A Multitrophic Perspective

edited by Demetra Kandalepas and

Todd Fredericksen

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest biodiversity; ecosystem ecology; trophic interactions; microbial diversity; fungal ecology; climate change impacts; forest conservation; community structure; habitat fragmentation; species interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)

Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change

edited by

Vladan Ivetic

,

John Stanturf

and

Branko Kanjevac

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 135 | Submission Open

Keywords: adaptation; adaptive management; climate change; forest adaptation; silviculture; forest management; forest modeling; desired future conditions

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

Linking Microbial Processes to Forest Soil Organic Matter Cycling

edited by

Mohamed Idbella

,

Giuseppina Iacomino

and

Giuliano Bonanomi

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest soils; organic matter; microbial dynamics; carbon cycling; soil ecology; carbon sequestration; biogeochemical processes; global climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Forests in Protected Areas: Removing Threats and Improving Preservation (2nd Edition)

edited by

Aureliu-Florin Hălălișan

and

Bogdan Popa

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 121 | Submission Open

Keywords: forests; protected areas; management; policy; communities; biodiversity; land use; sustainability; policy

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

Forest Pathology: Current and Future Challenges

edited by

Benedetto T. Linaldeddu

and

Sergio Murolo

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 102 | Submission Open

Keywords: exotic pathogens; geographic range expansion; new forest diseases; ecosystem resilience; biodiversity; diagnostic tools; management strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Elevational Distribution of Forest Organisms

edited by

Akihiro Nakamura

, Louise Ashton, Chris J. Burwell and Roger Kitching

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open

Keywords: biogeography; climate warming; ecological traits; ecosystem processes; elevational gradients; human disturbances; insects; invertebrates; phylogenetic relationships; species interactions

(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 10 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1256 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Wood as Cultural Heritage Material: 2nd Edition

edited by

Nicola Macchioni

,

Elisa Pecoraro

, Paola Mazzanti, Lorenzo Riparbelli and Dawa Shen

submission deadline 12 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10978 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood aging; archaeological wood; waterlogged archaeological wood; painted panels; wooden statues; historical music instruments; historic furniture; historic timber structures; historic wood dating; historic wood numerical modeling; historic wood simulation

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

Economic Research on Forest Ecosystem Services

edited by Juan Manuel Torres-Rojo, Adan L. Martinez-Cruz and Gustavo Perez-Verdin

submission deadline 12 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3149 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-market valuation; nature-based solution valuation; valuation of changes in ecosystem services; transversality of valuation

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

Functional Ecology of Mangroves

edited by

M. E. B. Fernandes

,

Francisco Javier Flores De Santiago

and

Pedro Walfir Martins E. Souza-Filho

submission deadline 12 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open

Keywords: mangrove ecosystem; functional ecology; carbon and nutrient dynamics; ecophysiological adaptations; blue carbon; biogeochemical processes; ecosystem resilience; land cover and land use changes; remote sensing and modeling; climate change adaptation

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

Application and Development of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Forestry Management

edited by Weijun Xie,

Ying Liu

and

Deyong Yang

submission deadline 16 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 437 | 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)

Hydrological Modeling with AI in Forests

edited by André Ferreira Rodrigues and

Carlos Rogério Mello

submission deadline 18 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; forest water resources; resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Hydrology)

Assessment and Monitoring Technologies in Forestry

edited by Gileno Brito De Azevedo,

Carlos Antonio Da Silva Junior

and Glauce Tais Souza De Azevedo

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest monitoring; remote sensing; hyperspectral data; machine learning; forest inventory; dendrometry; growth and yield modeling; sustainable forest management

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

Geospatial and Geomorphological Analysis of Forest Using Machine Learning

edited by

Halil Şenol

and

Fusun Sanli

submission deadline 21 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest geomorphology; geospatial analysis; machine learning; forest ecosystem mapping; AI-based environmental modeling; forest monitoring and management; remote sensing; LiDAR; UAV photogrammetry

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

Mangrove Wetland Restoration and Rehabilitation Under Climate Change and Human Cumulative Impacts in the 21st Century

edited by Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Jorge Lopez-Portillo, Xosé Lois Otero-Pérez and

Tiago Osorio Ferreira

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4455 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; biogeochemistry; blue carbon; climate change; community-based restoration; ecophysiology; ecosystem services; hydrological restoration; monitoring and modeling; natural regeneration; stakeholder participation

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

Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in Forest Hydrology

edited by

Francisco Balocchi

, Andrés A. Iroumé, Silvio Ferraz and

Teresa Reyna

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 1042 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest hydrology; groundwater– surface-water interactions; paired-catchment; remote sensing; climate extremes; forest disturbances; socio-hydrology; nature-based solutions; machine learning; global change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Hydrology)

Forest Ecotourism: Balancing Recreation, Conservation, and Local Development

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 237 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest ecotourism; sustainable tourism; conservation and recreation; community-based tourism; forest landscapes; ecosystem services; protected areas; participatory planning; forest policy; tourism and local development

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

Growth and Yield Models for Forests—Second Edition

edited by

Elia Vangi

,

Alessio Collalti

and

Gherardo Chirici

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 93 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest growth and yield; model calibration and evaluation; forest management; growth models; biomass and carbon; seeding; regeneration; recruitment; mortality; site productivity; climate change and drought; disturbance impacts

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

Wood Quality, Smart Timber Harvesting, and Forestry Machinery

edited by

Maria Francesca Cataldo

and

Salvatore F. Papandrea

submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 80 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood supply chain; precision forestry; decision support systems (DSS); life cycle assessment (LCA); timber traceability; waste wood recovery; worksite management; human– machine interaction (HMI); non-destructive testing (NDT); wood transportation

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

Advanced Methods and Technologies for Forest Wildfire Prevention

edited by

Abdullah Emin Akay

,

Michael Wing

, Helen Margaret de Klerk and

Coskun Okan Güney

submission deadline 26 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1181 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfire prevention; wildfire risk; fuel management; remote sensing; artificial intelligence; decision-support systems

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

Measurement and Enhancement of Wood Mechanical and Chemical Properties, 2nd Edition

edited by Wanzhao Li,

Marek Wieruszewski

and Yue Qi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9075 | Submission Open

Keywords: change in wood properties; laboratory measurements; industrial measurements; energy-efficient technologies for processing wood and wood-based materials; materials and technologies for curing improved wood products; ecological and technological aspects of harvesting and use of wood biomass; climate regulations in the processing of wood and wood-based materials; legal; economic; and technological aspects of the use of modified wood; sustainable development of wood production

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

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

edited by

Maciej Pach

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 8004 | 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)

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Forestry: 2nd Edition

edited by

Guojie Wang

and

Zengxin Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5495 | Submission Open

Keywords: forestry; artificial intelligence; remote sensing; meteorology; hydroecology; forest hydrology; climate change

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

Forest Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Management

edited by

,

,

, Seunguk Shin,

and

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5058 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest ecosystem services; sustainable management; payment for ecosystem services (PESs); corporate ESG strategies; ecosystem function; carbon sequestration; climate resilience; biodiversity conservation; cultural ecosystem services; socio-economic impacts; forest policy; ecosystem service valuation; regulating services; provisioning services

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

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

edited by

Astrid Reischl

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2445 | 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)

Forest Economics and Policy Analysis

edited by

Jinlong Liu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1986 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest economics; forest governance; forest policy; AI; forest management; community-based forest management; biodiversity conservation; bioeconomy; urban forests

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

Ecological Functions of Urban Green Spaces

edited by

,

,

,

and

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1730 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban green space; ecological functions; urban sustainability; climate change; air pollution; social justice; socio-economic benefits; resilient cities; smart cities; health; urban biodiversity; landscape and urban planning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)

Innovating Indicators: New Approaches for Tracking Forest Health Status and Trends in a Rapidly Changing World

edited by

Kevin M. Potter

and

Frank H. Koch

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1716 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest health monitoring; indicators; status and trends; invasive species; climate change; insects and diseases; regeneration trends; drought; wildfire; fragmentation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)

Water and Carbon Cycles and Their Coupling in Forest

edited by

Beibei Zhang

,

Futing Liu

and

Jian Wang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1542 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest ecosystem; carbon cycle; water cycle; carbon– water coupling; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Hydrology)

Impacts of Climate Change and Forest Management on Forest Carbon and Nitrogen Budgets

edited by

Yunjian Luo

, Hesong Wang, Xiaolei Sun and

Hongwei Xu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1350 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest carbon and nitrogen; climate change; forest management; field investigation; modeling; remote sensing

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

Conservation and Restoration of Forest Biodiversity

edited by Chunjing Wang, Chunhui Zhang and

Tomasz Oszako

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1256 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; biological conservation; conservation planning; forest biodiversity; ecological restoration; environmental management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)

The Vulnerability and Resilience of Tropical Forests Under Extreme Climate Change

edited by

Wendeson Castro

and Marcos Silveira

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 811 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecology; alternative stable state; forest system dieback; functional redundancy; hydraulic properties; water/thermal stress dynamics; facilitation; competition (intensity and importance); intermediate disturbance hypothesis; biodiversity

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

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 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 594 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)

Wood Quality and Mechanical Properties: 3rd Edition

edited by

André Luis Christoforo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 515 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood characterization; classification methods; wood testing; non-destructive tests; normative procedures

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

Degradation and Restoration of Tropical Forests

edited by

Rodrigo Vasconcelos

, Eduardo Mariano Neto and

Washington Franca-Rocha

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 452 | Submission Open

Keywords: degradation; restoration; tropical forests; forest regeneration; agroforestry; forests biodiversity

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

Climate-Driven Radial Growth Patterns of Forest Trees in Mountainous Regions

edited by

Wentao Zhang

,

Liang Jiao

,

Anastasia N. Christopoulou

and Yiping Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 423 | Submission Open

Keywords: dendroecology; radial growth; climate change; forest dynamic; mountainous regions

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

Forestry Byproducts: Biorefinery, Nanomaterials, and Forests Productivity and Carbon Sequestration

edited by

Danilo Escobar-Avello

,

Maria Graciela Aguayo

, Rafael A. Rubilar and Miguel Pereira

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 288 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular economy; phenolic compounds; lignin; wood preservatives; lignocellulose; bio-based adhesives; nanocellulose; forest productivity; climate change mitigation; biochar; life cycle analysis

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

Sustainable Forestry Operations: Timber Harvesting and Transportation Engineering

edited by

Grzegorz Trzciński

and

Kazuhiro Aruga

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 257 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest road; forest engineering; timber transport; wood supply chain; forestry transport; forest operation; forest road maintenance; road subgrades: axle overload; forest truck unit

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

Role of Microorganisms and Plants in Forest Restoration: Research Progress and Perspectives

edited by

Chao Huang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 245 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest restoration; microorganisms; plants; mycorrhizal fungi; bioremediation; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Soil Biota and Fertility Under Forest Degradation

edited by

Muhammed Mustapha Ibrahim

and

Adnan Mustafa

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 197 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbial dynamics; forests productivity; deforestation; nutrient addition; forest restoration; plant-microbial interactions; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)

Genetic Diversity, Adaptive Evolution, and Conservation Genomics of Forest Trees

edited by

Tin Hang Hung

and

Konstantin V. Krutovsky

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open

Keywords: genetic diversity; adaptive evolution; forest tree genomics; conservation genomics; landscape genomics; epigenetics; climate change adaptation; population structure; provenance and restoration; forest genetic resources

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

Applications of Data Science in Forestry

edited by

Antonio Jesús Pérez-Luque

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 144 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest data; forest mortality; data science in forestry; remote sensing; big data integration; decision support systems; machine learning; open data forest

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

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