In this work, we employ autoregressive models developed in financial engineering for modeling of forest dynamics. Autoregressive models have some theoretical advantage over currently employed forest modeling approaches such as Markov chains and indiv...
Due to global climate change and increased forest transformation by humans, accounting for the dynamics of forest ecosystems is becoming a central problem in forestry. We reviewed the success of considering vegetation dynamics in the most influential...
Forest dynamics is critical to forested ecosystems, and considerable efforts have been devoted to monitoring long-term forest dynamics with the goals of sustainable management and conservation of forests. However, little attention has been given to m...
Long-term studies of the dynamics of managed forests in tropical regions are lacking. This study aimed to evaluate the dynamics of a tropical forest, over a 25-year period, that was experimentally logged in 1987 and 1988 and submitted to three differ...
Intact dipterocarp forests in Asia act as crucial carbon (C) reservoirs, and it is therefore important to investigate the C dynamics in these forests. We estimated C dynamics, together with net ecosystem production (NEP), in an intact tropical dipter...
Forecasting of forest dynamics at a large scale is essential for land use management, global climate change and biogeochemistry modeling. We develop time series models of the forest dynamics in the conterminous United States based on forest inventory...
This study compares the Medieval (ca. 400–1500 CE; Common Era) dynamics of forests from low-mountain (Montcortès; ca. 1000 m a.s.l.) and high-mountain (Sant Maurici; 1900 m a.s.l.) areas of the Iberian Pyrenees, both of which experienced...
Research Highlights: Management of the risks forests are exposed to is based on the dynamics of the composition and structure of the stands and the forest. Background and Objectives: This study aimed to document the dynamics of the composition and st...
Forest dynamics are changing at a local and global level, with multiple social and environmental implications. The current literature points to different theories and hypotheses to explain these forest dynamics. In this paper, we formalized some of t...
Spatial structure dynamics play a major role in understanding the mechanisms of forest structure and biodiversity formation. Recently, researches on the spatial structure dynamics utilizing multi-period data have been published. However, these studie...
This study presents a novel approach to analyzing forest regeneration dynamics by integrating a Markov chain model with Multivariate Time Series (MTY) decomposition. The probabilistic tracking of age-class transitions was combined with the decomposit...
This research aims to advance our understanding towards forest transition, which is about the shift from net deforestation to net reforestation over a given area during certain period, through a case study of a western city in China from 1990 to 2015...
Forests play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle, climate regulation, and biodiversity conservation, making them essential for understanding ecosystem responses to environmental change. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics of forest vegetation...
Forest-cover change has become an important topic in global biodiversity conservation in recent decades because of the high rates of forest loss in different parts of the world, especially in the tropical region. While human interventions are the maj...
Forest dynamics, including forest loss and gain, are long-term complex ecological processes affected by nature and human activities. It is particularly important to understand the long-term forest dynamics of protected areas to evaluate their conserv...
Ecological records from before and after the creation of natural parks are valuable for informing conservation and management but are often unavailable. High-resolution paleoecological studies may bridge the gap and provide the required information....
Research Highlights: A detailed picture of the seasonality in fine root biomass (FRB), necromass (FRN), and the biomass/necromass ratio (FRBN) throughout the whole year is crucial to uncover profound effects of long-term environmental changes on fine...
To evaluate the stability dynamics of typical forest plant communities in Northeast China, 57 forest plots were surveyed in 2009 and surveyed again in 2014. By adapting temporary stability (TS) as the community stability indicator, all plots were div...
Old-growth forests are rare in Europe, yet they play a critical role in biodiversity and carbon storage. This study examines the structural dynamics of the Janj old-growth forest in the Dinaric Alps using repeated field measurements from 2011 and 202...
Land cover changes, especially excessive economic forest plantations, have significantly threatened the ecological security of West Dongting Lake wetland in China. This work aimed to investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of forests in the West Dong...
The cocoa economy of Ivory Coast started in the eastern part of the country in the 1970s and spread to the central-western and then south-western regions. For nearly a decade, it has been in the West of Ivory Coast with a population increase caused b...
Headwater streams serve as a crucial link between forest and downstream aquatic ecosystems and also act as crucial agents in carbon (C) and nutrient storage and flux. These aquatic systems play a pivotal role in regulating biogeochemical cycles. Plan...
Remote sensing technologies like airborne laser scanning (ALS) and digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP) have emerged as efficient tools for detecting and analysing canopy gaps (CGs). Comparing these technologies is essential to determine their functio...
In the context of ecological civil construction in China, afforestation is highly valued. Planting trees can improve air quality in China’s large cities. However, there is a lack of scientific analysis quantifying the impact urban forest scale...
The free open access data policy instituted for the Landsat archive since 2008 has revolutionised the use of Landsat data for forest monitoring, especially for estimating forest aboveground biomass (AGB). This paper provides a comprehensive review of...
Forest Ecological Security (FES) means coordinated development of forest ecosystems, social economies, and the forest environment. In this paper, we evaluate FES in Beijing under different designed scenarios using a dynamic systems model and find tha...
Forest soils are considered the largest carbon and nitrogen pools in soil organic matter among terrestrial ecosystems, and soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are normally affected by climate change and human activity...
Changes in tropical-forest structure and aboveground biomass (AGB) contribute directly to atmospheric changes in CO
Deforestation is a significant global concern, as forests are vital for climate balance, water conservation, and rainfall. In Palmira, Chimborazo, Ecuador, a pattern of afforestation followed by deforestation has been observed, influenced by both pub...
Patterns of structural change associated with monodominant tropical forest complexes have remained enigmatic for decades. Here, we extend previous efforts in presenting a longitudinal, local-scale analysis of forest dynamics in central Africa. Using...
Extreme climatic events are predicted to increase in frequency and magnitude as global climate change continues. Extreme climatic events have profound impacts on community structure and dynamics, but their effects on the dominant species within a com...
Forest management practices such as clearcutting, thinning, and prescribed burning are widely implemented to achieve various ecological and silvicultural objectives, yet their effects on soil carbon dynamics and belowground processes remain uncertain...
In the context of accelerating global climate change, the accurate quantification of forest carbon sequestration at the regional scale is of critical importance to estimate carbon budgets and formulate targeted ecological policies. This study systema...
Old growth forests are increasingly rare but important carbon sinks which harbour rich biodiversity. Chronic browsing by the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is a threat to the sustainability of the services provided by these forests, parti...
Most forest harvesting operations are performed using two or more forestry machines in combination; in the typical forest production system in steep terrain in Japan, there are four production processes: felling, yarding, processing, and forwarding....
Illegal occupation of argan forest parcels by local households is a new phenomenon in South West Morocco. This is primarily due to the weakening of traditional common control systems and to the boom of the argan oil price. The scope of this work is t...
Forage plants, as primary producers, play an essential role in maintaining populations of large herbivores. The availability and quality of these forage plants can affect the health and viability of these animals. Seasonally dry forests of Huai Kha K...
Climate change has become a prominent topic, particularly regarding plant adaptation and migration within mountain ecosystems. This study aimed to clarify forest dynamics by focusing on sapling and tree stages in relation to microclimate changes acro...
Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) represent about 41.5% of the planet’s tropical forests. The objective of this study was to characterize the annual mortality and recruitment patterns of stems and trees between the years 2012–2021 i...
For several decades, there has been growing interest in highly diversified forests as a result of their management using the so-called uneven-aged silviculture. Such management and forests resulting from its application fulfil the purpose of forest e...
The characterisation of functional-trait dynamics of vegetation from remotely sensed data complements the structural characterisation of ecosystems. In this study we characterised for the first time the spatial heterogeneity of the intra-annual dynam...
Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires countries to determine targets for the protection, conservation, or restoration of coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests by 2030. Satellite remote sensing provides historical and c...
Subalpine forests provide crucial ecosystem services and are increasingly threatened by human alterations like bare-cut slopes from highway construction. External soil spray seeding (ESSS) is often employed to restore these slopes, but the cement it...
Line-conditioned excess (lc-excess), the deviation of the relationship between δD and δ18O in soil water from that of precipitation, is often used to indicate soil evaporation loss, but the conditions of using lc-excess under the influenc...
The Andean Amazon is an endangered biodiversity hot spot but its forest dynamics are less studied than those of the Amazon lowland and forests from middle or high latitudes. This is because its landscape variability, complex topography and cloudy con...
In some mountainous areas of Japan, the Ki-no-Eki system, in which wood is collected to thin the forest and is exchanged for community currency, has been specifically designed and implemented as a solution to current and emerging forest governance is...
Spatialization of biomass and carbon stocks is essential for a good understanding of the forest stand and its characteristics, especially in degraded Mediterranean cork oak forests. Furthermore, the analysis of biomass and carbon stock changes and dy...
Litterfall is the primary source of carbon and nutrients that determine soil fertility in forest ecosystems. Most current studies have focused on foliar litter, but the seasonal dynamics and allometric scaling relationships among different litter com...
Though on a global scale, for ecological reasons, increased forest cover is universally regarded as positive, on a local scale, the reforestation of arable land may pose threats to cultural landscapes by removing characteristic landscape features. Pa...
We investigated relationships between population dynamics and microclimate, physiology, and the degree of mycorrhizal colonization, for three species (Piscidia piscipula L.(Sarg.)) (Fabaceae), Bunchosia swartziana Griseb. (Malpighiaceae) and Psidium ...
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