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  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
15,674 Views
20 Pages

21 February 2010

Forest sustainability and forest certification are important natural resource management and environmental issues. Forest certification addresses the social and environmental issues in the acquisition of raw materials (e.g., lumber to be used in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,087 Views
24 Pages

Soil Microbiome Composition along the Natural Norway Spruce Forest Life Cycle

  • Michal Choma,
  • Pavel Šamonil,
  • Eva Kaštovská,
  • Jiří Bárta,
  • Karolina Tahovská,
  • Martin Valtera and
  • Hana Šantrůčková

30 March 2021

Stand-replacing disturbances are a key element of the Norway spruce (Picea abies) forest life cycle. While the effect of a natural disturbance regime on forest physiognomy, spatial structure and pedocomplexity was well described in the literature, it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,350 Views
18 Pages

19 May 2020

The complex forestry enterprises incorporate the production activities of different links in the value chain of forest products and should be the mainstay for the sustainable forestry production of China in the foreseeable future. This case study was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
823 Views
25 Pages

22 May 2025

The life-cycle economics and greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions of forest biomass harvesting and utilization for value-added bioproducts were comprehensively evaluated via the development of an integrated modeling framework. Taking the eastern U.S. as th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
980 Views
21 Pages

19 September 2025

The strategic importance of forest biomass as a renewable energy source is growing across the EU, driven by climate goals, energy security, and the abundance of logging residues. While logging waste offers considerable potential for bioenergy product...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,258 Views
20 Pages

Valorisation of Forest and Agriculture Residual Biomass—The Application of Life Cycle Assessment to Analyse Composting, Mulching, and Energetic Valorisation Strategies

  • Isabel Brás,
  • Elisabete Silva,
  • Roberta Raimondo,
  • Raffaella Saetta,
  • Vincenzo Mignano,
  • Massimiliano Fabbricino and
  • José Ferreira

11 January 2024

The treatment of agricultural and forest residues (AFRs) has become an important issue nowadays, both to avoid improper management and for their enhancement. In the study area of Viseu (Portugal), the AFRs are taken to a Residual Biomass Collection C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,303 Views
30 Pages

15 August 2025

Oil camellia (Camellia oleifera) residues from low-yield forests offer significant potential for carbon emission reductions across multiple product pathways—fibreboard, pulp, and bioelectricity. Life cycle assessments (LCAs) were conducted for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
77 Citations
15,241 Views
30 Pages

Life Cycle Assessment of Forest-Based Products: A Review

  • Kamalakanta Sahoo,
  • Richard Bergman,
  • Sevda Alanya-Rosenbaum,
  • Hongmei Gu and
  • Shaobo Liang

29 August 2019

Climate change, environmental degradation, and limited resources are motivations for sustainable forest management. Forests, the most abundant renewable resource on earth, used to make a wide variety of forest-based products for human consumption. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,454 Views
16 Pages

24 December 2023

Energy production from biomass represents a strategic solution for the achievement of global sustainability goals. In addition, the use of biofuels offers both significant environmental advantages and several socio-economic benefits. In this study, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
10,131 Views
14 Pages

22 April 2015

High dependence on imported oil has increased U.S. strategic vulnerability and prompted more research in the area of renewable energy production. Ethanol production from renewable woody biomass, which could be a substitute for gasoline, has seen incr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,507 Views
16 Pages

Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Bioenergy Production from Different Wood Pellet Supply Chains

  • Andrea Sgarbossa,
  • Martina Boschiero,
  • Francesca Pierobon,
  • Raffaele Cavalli and
  • Michela Zanetti

23 October 2020

The EU is one of the largest producers and consumers of wood pellets in the world, covering around 36% of the global wood pellet production and around 50% of the global consumption in 2018. The EU wood pellet consumption is expected to further increa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,193 Views
20 Pages

9 October 2018

The moist forests of the Pacific Northwest United States (PNW) are among the most naturally carbon rich ecoregions in the world. However, regional in-forest carbon storage levels are currently well below ecological potential. Recent climate policy pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,351 Views
17 Pages

13 July 2021

Understanding the influence of method choices on results in life-cycle assessments is essential to draw informed conclusions. As the climate impact of bioenergy remains a debated topic, the focus of this study is how the chosen temporal framing influ...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,879 Views
16 Pages

Socioeconomic and Environmental Benefits of Expanding Urban Green Areas: A Joint Application of i-Tree and LCA Approaches

  • Mariana Oliveira,
  • Remo Santagata,
  • Serena Kaiser,
  • Yanxin Liu,
  • Chiara Vassillo,
  • Patrizia Ghisellini,
  • Gengyuan Liu and
  • Sergio Ulgiati

22 November 2022

Green infrastructures deliver countless functions for counteracting climate change, air pollution, floods, and heat islands, contributing at the same time to water and carbon recycling as well as to renewable energies and feedstock provisioning. Prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
14,353 Views
31 Pages

Greenhouse Gas Balance of Native Forests in New South Wales, Australia

  • Fabiano de Aquino Ximenes,
  • Brendan H. George,
  • Annette Cowie,
  • Justin Williams and
  • Georgina Kelly

17 August 2012

To quantify the climate change impacts of forestry and forest management options, we must consider the entire forestry system: the carbon dynamics of the forest, the life cycle of harvested wood products, and the substitution benefit of using biomass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,523 Views
15 Pages

A Conceptual Landscape-Level Approach to Assess the Impacts of Forestry on Biodiversity

  • Eskil Mattsson,
  • Martin Erlandsson,
  • Per Erik Karlsson and
  • Hampus Holmström

1 April 2022

In this study, we propose a conceptual approach to assessing biodiversity impacts in the life-cycle assessments (LCAs) of forest wood production with a focus on Nordic managed forests at the landscape level. As a basis for our methodology, we suggest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,679 Views
29 Pages

8 August 2021

A novel approach is proposed to evaluate the impact of forestry on ecosystem quality in life cycle assessment (LCA) combining a naturalness assessment model with a species richness relationship. The approach is applied to a case study evaluating diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,437 Views
11 Pages

12 September 2024

Climate change demands urgent action to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and explore methods for atmospheric carbon removal. Forest residues, a significant biomass resource, represent a readily available solution. With the use of life cycle asses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
12,072 Views
20 Pages

18 September 2015

Hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) are a trendy alternative to enhance the renewable energy deployment worldwide. They effectively take advantage of scalability and flexibility of these energy sources, since combining two or more allows counterac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,073 Views
9 Pages

3 February 2021

Carbon life cycle assessments (C LCA) play a major role in greenhouse gas (GHG)-related forest management analytics for wood products and consist of several steps along a forest to disposal path. Yet, input values for wood product C LCAs frequently r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,479 Views
21 Pages

Assessment and Sustainability of Logging Operations in Calabrian Pine High Forests

  • Bruno Bernardi,
  • Giorgio Macrì,
  • Giacomo Falcone,
  • Teodora Stillitano,
  • Souraya Benalia and
  • Anna Irene De Luca

2 March 2022

Forest mechanisation plays an important role in increasing labour productivity and reducing production costs. This work aims at evaluating various logging scenarios in Calabrian pine high forests, considering technical, economic and environmental asp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,579 Views
20 Pages

10 February 2020

Similar to standing trees in the forests, wood products play an important role in enhancing the global sequestered carbon pool, by retaining the atmospheric carbon in a sequestered form for the duration of the functional life of the wood products. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,776 Views
15 Pages

4 January 2022

Forests are used to mitigate anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through carbon offset programs, and forest management is generally accepted as “carbon neutral”. However, forest harvesting operations depend heavily on fossil fuel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,393 Views
24 Pages

7 December 2022

LCC and EL models have been widely used in recent years to determine the decommissioning life of equipment in energy companies, with LCC (life-cycle cost) being the total “lifetime” cost of the equipment from the time it is put into opera...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,766 Views
2 Pages

Forest mechanisation plays an important role in increasing labour productivity and reducing production costs. Chainsaws are the most commonly used tool used for tree felling and can have both positive and negative environmental impacts on the forest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,407 Views
23 Pages

9 September 2021

This study assessed the environmental impacts and economic feasibility of generating heat using wood-briquettes (WBs), and heat and electricity using torrefied-wood-briquettes (TWBs). WBs and TWBs were manufactured from forest residues using portable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,565 Views
20 Pages

Economic and Life Cycle Analysis of Passive and Active Monitoring of Ozone for Forest Protection

  • Elisa Carrari,
  • Alessandra De Marco,
  • Andrea Laschi,
  • Ovidiu Badea,
  • Laurence Dalstein-Richier,
  • Silvano Fares,
  • Stefan Leca,
  • Enrico Marchi,
  • Pierre Sicard and
  • Elena Paoletti
  • + 4 authors

At forest sites, phytotoxic tropospheric ozone (O3) can be monitored with continuously operating, active monitors (AM) or passive, cumulative samplers (PM). For the first time, we present evidence that the sustainability of active monitoring is bette...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
7,650 Views
4 Pages

18 August 2010

Unreferenced statement on page 608: “A fundamental difference between FSC and PEFC is the stakeholders. While FSC was founded mainly by environmental groups, PEFC had strong forest industry and trade groups among its founders. This is one reason FSC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,510 Views
22 Pages

Urban Greenprint: A Decision Support Tool for Optimizing Urban Forest Strategies in Sustainable Cities

  • Marco di Cristofaro,
  • Federico Valerio Moresi,
  • Mauro Maesano,
  • Bruno Lasserre and
  • Giuseppe Scarascia-Mugnozza

Urban forests (UFs) play a crucial role in mitigating climate change, but their management presents complex trade-offs between environmental, economic, and social aspects. We developed a Decision Support Tool (DST) to simulate 27-year UF dynamics und...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,861 Views
17 Pages

Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Thinning Operations in Mediterranean Softwood Plantations

  • Janine Schweier,
  • Raffaele Spinelli,
  • Natascia Magagnotti,
  • Bernhard Wolfslehner and
  • Manfred J. Lexer

21 June 2018

Mediterranean pines account for 14,000 ha in Tuscany alone, where they form large and homogeneous stands and represent an important resource for the forest economy. Among the harvesting systems applied to thinning operations, the most popular are who...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,736 Views
26 Pages

27 August 2019

In Mediterranean regions, afforested areas were planted to ensure the permanence of land cover, and to protect against erosion and to initiate the vegetation processes. For those purposes, pine species were mainly used; however, many of these stands,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,991 Views
20 Pages

Sustainability of the Amazon Nut in Mato Grosso: An Application of the MuSIASEM Method

  • Thiago Vargas Maldonado,
  • Francesca Allievi and
  • Luiz Panhoca

31 August 2021

The Amazon biome occupies 60% of Brazilian territory, configured as a complex metabolism due to its diversity and the history of occupation by humans in the exploitation of its services. The Amazon nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) occurs in the entire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
13,894 Views
17 Pages

Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Mass Timber and Concrete Residential Buildings: A Case Study in China

  • Cindy X. Chen,
  • Francesca Pierobon,
  • Susan Jones,
  • Ian Maples,
  • Yingchun Gong and
  • Indroneil Ganguly

23 December 2021

As the population continues to grow in China’s urban settings, the building sector contributes to increasing levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Concrete and steel are the two most common construction materials used in China and account f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,600 Views
21 Pages

Biology and Life Stages of Pine Spittle Bug Ocoaxo assimilis Walker (Hemiptera: Cercopidae)

  • Raquel Cid-Muñoz,
  • David Cibrián-Tovar,
  • Ernestina Valadez-Moctezuma,
  • Emma Estrada-Martínez and
  • Francisco Armendáriz-Toledano

1 February 2020

The first records of outbreaks of the Pine Spittle bug Ocoaxo assimilis Walker were recently identified from Puebla, Mexico, which promoted more than 2600 ha of forest foliar fall. Beyond the taxonomic and distribution information of this species, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,553 Views
15 Pages

The Effect of Forest Growth Rate on Climate Change Impacts of Logging Residue Utilization

  • Xiaofan Gan,
  • Bingqian Guo,
  • Zemeng Ma,
  • Mingjie Fang,
  • Yan Yan and
  • Weiguo Liu

10 August 2023

Biofuel is encouraged because of its low impact on climate change. A new framework was developed to accurately assess the climate change impacts (CCI) of biofuel by integrating the atmospheric carbon cycle model and vegetation carbon dynamic models....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,838 Views
15 Pages

22 March 2024

Poultry and forestry waste residues, despite their environmental concerns, offer nutrient-rich content and wider availability. Utilising them in cascading approaches can create high-value products and establish new value chains in bioeconomy. This st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,458 Views
13 Pages

Influence of the Wood Species, Forest Management Practice and Allocation Method on the Environmental Impacts of Roundwood and Biomass

  • André Manuel Dias,
  • José Saporiti Machado,
  • Alfredo M. P. G. Dias,
  • José Dinis Silvestre and
  • Jorge de Brito

26 August 2022

This study quantifies and compares the environmental impacts of production systems of biomass and roundwood from different wood species—maritime pine, eucalyptus, and cryptomeria. The results showed that roundwood and biomass from eucalyptus ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,388 Views
28 Pages

22 March 2023

An appropriate technical overhaul strategy is very important for the development of enterprises. Most enterprises pay attention to the design life of the equipment, that is, the point when the equipment can no longer be used as stipulated by the manu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,551 Views
18 Pages

Predicting Energy-Based CO2 Emissions in the United States Using Machine Learning: A Path Toward Mitigating Climate Change

  • Longfei Tian,
  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Zhiru He,
  • Chen Yuan,
  • Yinghui Xie,
  • Kun Zhang and
  • Ran Jing

23 March 2025

Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges that could potentially threaten ecosystems, human populations, and weather patterns over time. Impacts including rising sea levels and soil salinization are caused by climate change, primar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
11,915 Views
28 Pages

A Flexible Hybrid Model of Life Cycle Carbon Balance for Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) Management Systems

  • Carlos A. Gonzalez-Benecke,
  • Timothy A. Martin,
  • Eric J. Jokela and
  • Rafael De La Torre

15 September 2011

In this study we analyzed the effects of silvicultural treatments on carbon (C) budgets in Pinus taeda L. (loblolly pine) plantations in the southeastern United States. We developed a hybrid model that integrated a widely used growth and yield model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,249 Views
28 Pages

A Functionality Based Wood Substitutability Index

  • Elaine Garcia de Lima,
  • Cécile Bulle and
  • Cássia Maria Lie Ugaya

26 May 2018

Recent progress in Life Cycle Impact Assessment highlighted the need to assess the loss of resources’ functional value when assessing the life cycle impacts of resource depletion. To be able to assess the loss of functional value of resources d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,670 Views
18 Pages

15 November 2023

Corythucha arcuata, commonly known as the oak lace bug (OLB), is an insect species originally native to North America that has become an invasive species of significant concern in Europe. This invasive pest has been observed in various European count...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,216 Views
18 Pages

29 March 2017

We review the literature that led to clarifying the role of tropical forests in the global carbon cycle from a time when they were considered sources of atmospheric carbon to the time when they were found to be atmospheric carbon sinks. This literatu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,677 Views
27 Pages

Assessing Net Environmental and Economic Impacts of Urban Forests: An Online Decision Support Tool

  • Javier Babí Almenar,
  • Claudio Petucco,
  • Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez,
  • Laurent Chion and
  • Benedetto Rugani

26 December 2022

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are becoming popular in urban planning and policy making as cost-effective solutions capable of delivering multiple ecosystem services and addressing several societal challenges. So far, however, the cost-effectiveness of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,451 Views
16 Pages

Mass Timber Building Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for the U.S. Regional Case Studies

  • Hongmei Gu,
  • Shaobo Liang,
  • Francesca Pierobon,
  • Maureen Puettmann,
  • Indroneil Ganguly,
  • Cindy Chen,
  • Rachel Pasternack,
  • Mark Wishnie,
  • Susan Jones and
  • Ian Maples

20 December 2021

The building industry currently consumes over a third of energy produced and emits 39% of greenhouse gases globally produced by human activities. The manufacturing of building materials and the construction of buildings make up 11% of those emissions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,809 Views
18 Pages

Life Cycle Environmental Impact of Biomass Co-Firing with Coal at a Power Plant in the Greater Houston Area

  • Raghava Rao Kommalapati,
  • Iqbal Hossan,
  • Venkata Sai Vamsi Botlaguduru,
  • Hongbo Du and
  • Ziaul Huque

27 June 2018

Electricity generation from coal is one of the leading contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. and has adverse effects on the environment. Biomass from forest residue can be co-fired with coal to reduce the impact of fossil-fuel power pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,037 Views
14 Pages

10 July 2023

Since the construction industry is one of China’s high carbon emission industries, to achieve China’s carbon neutrality target by 2060, CO2 emissions in cold regions must be reduced. At the same time, forests have excellent carbon sequest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,992 Views
12 Pages

Ultra-High-Cycle Fatigue Life Prediction of Metallic Materials Based on Machine Learning

  • Xuze Zhang,
  • Fang Liu,
  • Min Shen,
  • Donggui Han,
  • Zilong Wang and
  • Nu Yan

15 February 2023

The fatigue life evaluation of metallic materials plays an important role in ensuring the safety and long service life of metal structures. To further improve the accuracy and efficiency of the ultra-high-cycle fatigue life prediction of metallic mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
511 Views
21 Pages

Linking the LCA of Forest Bio-Based Products for Construction, Ecosystem Services, and Sustainable Forest Management

  • Teresa Garnica,
  • Soledad Montilla,
  • José Antonio Tenorio Ríos,
  • Ángel Lora,
  • Antonio J. Molina Herrera and
  • Marta Conde

13 November 2025

The multifunctional role of forests in supplying renewable biomaterials and delivering ecosystem services (ESs) is often overlooked in standard life cycle assessment (LCA) methodologies, despite its relevance for sustainable construction. This study...

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