Climate Adaptive Reforestation and Plant Material Production

Dear Colleagues,

The role of forests in mitigation of climate change is underutilized. Increase of forests and forest adaptive management could be sustainably intensified to sequester a large amount of carbon on forests. More than two billion hectares of degraded areas worldwide need restoration. Last decades, increasingly global change and human-induced disturbances raise the public sense for accelerating reforestation programs, although consensus is lacking on which techniques to use and what objectives to pursue.Thus, there is an urgent need to broaden the knowledge and the experience on climate adaptive forest restoration and reforestation issues.

This Special Issue on climate adaptive reforestation and forest restoration will include emerging issues for understanding the meaning of climate adaptive forest restoration and reforestation topics, such as restoration and reforestation sound and update goals, promotion the need and the mean for successful restoration and reforestation projects, new knowledge on plant adaptation mechanisms on climate changes. It will also include papers focus on appropriate plant species selection for each site conditions, innovative techniques for tree material production in the nurseries, quality control of targeted forest reproductive material, advanced establishment techniques, post-planting treatments, and silviculture of aforested areas.

Dr. Marianthi Tsakaldimi
Prof. Vladan Ivetic
Guest Editors

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