Forest Biodiversity, Conservation and Sustainability – Series II
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 18601
Special Issue Editor
Interests: forest ecology; silviculture; ecological restoration; biodiversity conservation
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Dear Colleagues,
Forests demonstrate a high degree of biodiversity, being thought to comprise the most diverse ecosystems on land, as most of the terrestrial species in the world dwell there. Forest biodiversity is interlinked to a web of other socio-economic factors, providing an array of goods and services that range from timber and non-timber forest resources to mitigating climate change and conservation of genetic resources; therefore, it is innately linked to ecosystem and human well-being. However, forest biodiversity decrease is a crucial and ongoing environmental issue last decades.
This Special Issue on Forest Biodiversity (FB), which is the continuing issue of the former Special Issue, Forest Biodiversity, Conservation and Sustainability, will include emerging issues for understanding FB and its conservation, such as ecological processes, disturbances, climate change and ecosystems resilience, structural complexity and ecosystem functions, ecological theories and silvicultural practices, and stability of FB. It will also include papers that focus on the indicators and methods for assessing and monitoring forest biodiversity, evaluation of practices, silvicultural treatments and management methods aiming at biodiversity conservation, conservation of forest biodiversity in protected areas, treatments of endangered or threaten forest habitats, and sustainable management of forest resources.
Prof. Dr. Petros Ganatsas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Ecological processes and forest biodiversity
- Forest biodiversity, climate change and ecosystems resilience
- Indicators and methods for assessing and monitoring forest biodiversity
- Ecological theories and silvicultural practices
- Silvicultural treatments aiming at biodiversity conservation
- Methods for conservation of forest biodiversity in protected areas
- Structural complexity and ecosystem functions
- Treatments of endangered or threaten forest habitats
- Sustainable management of forest resources
- Conservation and sustainable use of forest biodiversity
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