Forest Soil-Water Resilience to Climate Change: Mechanisms and Management
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land, Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 1238
Special Issue Editors
Interests: desertification control; water and soil conservation; agriculture technology; desert plant ecology; natural disaster risk assessment; climate change; land use models
Interests: land evaluation; climate change models; spatiotemporal analysis of irrigation water quality; soil degradation; agriculture productivity; agroecological modelling and remote sensing techniques; soil carbon sequestration; adaptation strategies; improving soil characteristics; sustainable management; crop models and irrigation management
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Interests: saline soils; halophyte; saline–alkali land restoration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change, especially global warming, has caused a marked increase in the frequency of compound drought and heatwave events and intense rainfall events, resulting in forest ecosystems facing severe challenges. Nevertheless, the interactions between soil, climate, and water continue to play vital roles in the stability of forest ecosystems. For example, mycorrhizal networks provide a mechanism for the redistribution of water into the upper soil layers experiencing low soil water potential, increasing drought resistance for their hosts. Natural mechanisms or artificial methods, including soil microfauna, rewilding, forest restoring, etc., have also clarified or enhanced the resilience of forest ecosystems; however, at the same time, many mechanisms or methods by which forest water–soil systems respond to climate change have yet to be explained.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) that provide insights into the mechanisms of and methods by which forest soil–water system respond to climate change, with a particular focus on novel techniques or discoveries.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Soil–water interaction mechanisms;
- Forest ecosystem reforestation and afforestation;
- Sustainable forest management;
- Soil organic matter (SOM) and carbon sequestration;
- Climate change impact models on ecosystems;
- Forest ecological interaction;
- Agriculture or forest models for land potential;
- Management techniques or methods for responding to climate change.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Jinglong Fan
Dr. Sameh Kotb Abd-Elmabod
Dr. Lei Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- ecosystem
- ecological potential
- interaction mechanisms
- forest management
- agriculture techniques
- ecologic diversity
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