Towards a Sustainable Future: Understanding Climate Change's Impact on Forest Growth
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Forestry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 134
Special Issue Editor
Interests: productivity of pure and mixed stands; short rotation forestry; effects of climate change to forests; growth and yield models
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate change affects forests in various aspects that directly impact the productivity of forest stands. Increasing temperatures and precipitation may increase the productivity of boreal forests. Yet, increasing temperatures in temperate forests may lead to severe droughts, fires, or other natural calamities that would hurt these forests’ growth. Thus, planned adaptation to climate change, mainly through introducing new silvicultural measures and strategies, may create new opportunities that arise from climate change. Also, productive forests accumulate more carbon, which could be stored in various forms of wood products.
Thus, this Special Issue, ‘Towards a Sustainable Future: Understanding Climate Change's Impact on Forest Growth’, aims to present the state-of-the-art developments and best sustainable sylvicultural practices for managing pure and mixed forest stands to maintain their productivity in the presence of climate change.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Socio-economic and integrated policies for the sustainable future of forests;
- Sustainable silvicultural practices to mitigate climate change;
- Sustainability of forest ecosystems under changing climates;
- Forest growth and yield modeling approaches for the sustainable management of forests;
- Renewable energy resources and their sustainability;
- New carbon sequestration approaches and climate change;
- Sustainable forest formation under changing environmental conditions;
- Biodiversity of the natural and anthropogenic ecosystems, and their structure, stability, and variation under climate change and human activity.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Edgaras Linkevičius
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- mixtures
- pure stands
- fast-growing trees
- sylviculture
- productivity
- carbon sequestration
- growth and yield modeling
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