While a large sum of timber stock in private forests, especially broadleaved forests, has been ignored by their owners, a rising global concern about climate change and ecosystems has led to a renewed interest in natural broadleaved forest management...
Climate change is an important issue that increasingly affects our lives. One of the proposals for mitigating climate change is fighting biodiversity loss, which can support climate mitigation and adaptation actions. In Poland, the possibility of exc...
Increased nitrogen (N) deposition may have profound effects on forest ecosystems. However, information on the impacts of elevated N deposition on belowground soil seed bank in forests is lacking. In a field experiment, we added N at 50 and 25 kg N ha...
Structural complexity and local biodiversity of species-rich tropical forests can be characterized by their spatial patterns, which contribute to species intra- and interspecific interactions. Aiming to describe spatial patterns of species at fine sp...
(1) Background: Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis (Carrière) J. Houz.) expansion has seriously altered the species composition and structure of adjacent forest ecosystems in subtropical regions. However, the shift in phosphorus (P) biogeochemi...
Linking functional trait space and environmental conditions can help to understand how species fill the functional trait space when species increase along environmental gradients. Here, we examined the variations in functional richness (FRic) and the...
Forest structures knowledge is fundamental to understanding, managing, and preserving the biodiversity of forests. With the well-established need within the remote sensing community for better understanding of canopy structure, in this paper, the eff...
Arguments about the origin and evolution of the evergreen broad-leaved forests in East Asia exist generally, and are even contradictory in some cases. The origin and evolution of the flora of East Asia, especially in the evolutionary process, the for...
Evergreen broad-leaved forests with rich biodiversity play a key role in stabilizing global vegetation productivity and maintaining land carbon sinks. However, quantitative and accurate classification results for humid, evergreen, broad-leaved forest...
Bamboo and broad-leaved mixed forest is a kind of forestry management that can effectively improve the ecology of bamboo forests. The aerial structure of the stand can reflect the growth status of the stand, as well as the spatial structure of the st...
Negative densification affects the spatial distribution of species in secondary evergreen broad-leaved forests and is a key mechanism governing species coexistence. We investigated the effects of habitat heterogeneity and density on the spatial distr...
Objective: The purpose of this article was to use the Random Forest method and nonlinear mixed-effects method to develop a model for determining tree height–diameter at breast height (DBH) for a natural coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest...
The canopy is the direct receiver and receptor of external environmental variations, and affects the microclimate and energy exchange between the understory and external environment. After autumn leaf fall, the canopy structure of different forests s...
Broad-leaved subtropical forests are the most productive, diversified, and complex ecosystems on the planet. Unfortunately, they are currently under severe threat from anthropogenic activities, such as. deforestation, housing settlements, and agricul...
Determining whether epiphytic bryophytes have ecological preferences for woody plants remains difficult. Here, our primary aim in developing the torus-translation test is to evaluate the associations between epiphytic bryophytes and woody plants at t...
Stand basal area (SBA) is an important variable in the prediction of forest growth and harvest yield. However, achieving the additivity of SBA models for multiple tree species in the complex structure of broad-leaved mixed forests is an urgent scient...
Montane deciduous broad-leaved forests (MDB) are mainly distributed in the east monsoon realm of China. The upper limit of MDB significantly varies from mountain to mountain. However, the spatial pattern of the upper limit of MDB and its underlying d...
Landscape context can reflect the habitat structure and play an important role in bird species occurrences and abundance. For local biodiversity conservation and restoration, we examined the effects of landscape context on bird communities at differe...
Studying spatial distribution patterns and intraspecific and interspecific associations of tree species is crucial for understanding the maintenance of biodiversity and offering insights into community dynamics and stability. The Shennongjia National...
Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis (Carrière) J. Houz.) forests are a vital forest type in subtropical China. This study investigates the diversity, floristic composition, and phylogenetic structure of understory vegetation in these bamboo fore...
By studying the dynamic change characteristics of litter production, composition, nutrient content, and return amount of different components in different extreme weather interference years of Ailao Mountain evergreen broad-leaved forest, the paper p...
Monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forests (MEBFs) represent one of the most species-rich and structurally complex vegetation types, and one of the most widely distributed forests in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. However, they have yet to undergo a c...
Plant phenology is a sensitive indicator of ecosystem responses to climate change, yet its dynamics and drivers in subtropical montane forests remain poorly understood. Based on the continuous phenological monitoring of 12 dominant tree species from...
Acorn weevils critically impact forest regeneration in semi-humid evergreen broad-leaved forests (SEBFs) by parasitizing and consuming acorns before dispersal. Despite their ecological significance, research on the species diversity of acorn weevils...
Significant influences on tree growth and forest functionality are attributed to nitrogen (N) addition. However, limited research has been conducted on the effects of N addition on forest spatial structure. In this study, we examined the effects of d...
Investigating the spatial distributions and associations of tree populations provides better insights into the dynamics and processes that shape the forest community. Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) is one of the most important tree species in broad-l...
Rainfall is one of the primary sources of chemical inputs in forest ecosystems, and the basis of forest nutrient cycling. Mixed evergreen and deciduous broadleaved forests are currently one of the most threatened ecosystems due to their sensitivity t...
The precipitation changes induced by climate warming have substantially increased extreme precipitation and seasonal drought events. Different plant functional types (PFTs) could exert an important role in resisting extreme climate. However, the patt...
This study aimed to investigate the impact of local canopy environmental characteristics on the regeneration of common tree species in the understory of broadleaved Korean pine forests, thus deepening the understanding of species coexistence and fore...
Amid accelerating global nitrogen deposition, China has emerged as the world’s third-largest hotspot after Western Europe and North America. Disentangling how elevated N inputs interact with intensifying precipitation and silvicultural practice...
Preseason temperature has always been considered the most critical factor influencing vegetation phenology in the northern hemisphere. While numerous studies have examined the impact of daytime and nighttime warming on vegetation phenology in this re...
The vertical transition zone of mountain vegetation is characterized by high species diversity, and the width of the transition zone may serve as an indirect indicator of climate change. However, research into the differential characteristics of vege...
Mountain forests, accounting for 84.95% of the total forest area, are the most important part of the natural vegetation in China. An assessment of the factors affecting the carbon capture capacity of mountain forests is very crucial to realizing the...
The management of stand structure and the protection of species diversity are crucial to forest ecosystem service functions. Changbai Mountain is one of the three major forest regions in Northeast China, and understanding the characteristics of stand...
Evergreen broadleaved forests in subtropical China contain a complicated structure of diverse species. The impact of topographic and soil factors on the assembly of woody species in the forest has been poorly understood. We used Ripley’s K(t) functio...
Bryophytes play an important role in biogeochemical cycles and functions in forest ecosystems. Global climate changes have led to the population decline of bryophytes; however, the effects of bryophyte loss on the soil organic carbon stock and microb...
Forest restoration sites have a critical role in the maintenance and improvement of forest ecosystem health and resilience, as well as increasing carbon storage capacity. However, previous studies on forest restoration sites have primarily focused on...
The forest community structure and dynamic structure provide basic data for in-depth study of the community maintenance mechanisms and succession processes of urban forest ecosystems. Moreover, the study on the dynamics of suburban forest communities...
Changes in soil nutrient dynamics after biochar application may affect indirect carbon sequestration through changes in plant productivity in forest ecosystems. In the present study, we examined the effects of woody biochar application on soil nitrog...
Little attention has been paid to the impact of vertical canopy position on the leaf spectral properties of tall trees, and few studies have explored the ability of leaf spectra to characterize the variation of leaf traits across different canopy pos...
Secondary forest accounts for almost 60% of the forest area in Japan. Dwarf bamboo (Sasa senanensis) grows widely in the understory of such forest and could make a significant contribution to the overall CO2 sink function (gross primary production, G...
Seasonal variabilities in hydrological fluxes of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and their driving factors in the evergreen broad-leaved forest are inadequately understood. To aid this understanding, we conducted a three-year study to examine seasonal...
Although wall-to-wall, accurate, and up-to-date forest composition maps at the stand level are a fundamental input for many applications, ranging from global environmental issues to local forest management planning, countrywide mapping approaches on...
Biochar (BC) soil amendments could partially counteract soil carbon (C) stock decrease in broad-leaved forests in Italy; however, its effects on the growth of representative tree species—Fagus sylvatica L. and Quercus cerris L.—...
The terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) has been widely used in forest inventories. However, with increasing precision of TLS, storing and transmitting tree point clouds become more challenging. In this paper, a novel compressed sensing (CS) scheme for b...
The main goal of this study is to analyse and interpret interspecific differences in foliage biomass/area and woody parts biomass as well as the ratio between quantities of foliage and woody components (i.e., branches, stem and roots). The study was...
Temperate forests and grasslands carry key ecosystem functions and provide essential services. Remote-sensing derived greenness has been widely used to assess the response of ecosystem function to climate and land-cover changes. Although reforestatio...
Relative pollen productivity (RPP) is a key parameter for quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation cover. However, RPP estimates are rarely obtained in the subtropical and tropical regions. In this study, the extended R-value (ERV) model was us...
Atmospheric rainfall is one of the major sources of water and nutrient inputs in forest stands. Understanding the atmospheric rainfall partitioning and hydrochemical fluxes of forest stands is critical for forest management and monitoring regional at...
To understand the past carbon accumulation of forest–steppe ecotone and to identify the main drivers of the long-term carbon dynamics, we selected Huangqihai Lake and analyzed the sediment records. We measured the organic carbon content (TOC; %) of s...
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