Water use and its environmental responses in artificially planted sand–fixing shrubs in arid and semi–arid regions are important for evaluating the sustainability of ecological restoration. This study investigated artificially planted Sal...
Accurate and updated finer resolution maps of rubber plantations and stand ages are needed to understand and assess the impacts of rubber plantations on regional ecosystem processes. This study presented a simple method for mapping rubber plantation...
Soil enzymes and microbial communities are key factors in forest soil ecosystem functions and are affected by stand age. In this study, we studied soil enzyme activities, composition and diversity of bacterial and fungal communities and relevant phys...
Understanding the effects of stand age and forest type on soil respiration is crucial for predicting the potential of soil carbon sequestration. Thus far, however, there is no consensus regarding the variations in soil respiration caused by stand age...
Parashorea chinensis is an endemic tree species in China and an endangered species of the Dipterocarpaceae family. This study contributes to the understanding of soil fertility management during the relocation and conservation of P. chinensis and the...
Intensifying forest management and a reduction in the rotation period necessitates the development of intensive biodiversity conservation strategies, such as the triad concept, which aims at ensuring habitat connectivity. Such an approach depends on...
The CO2 fertilization effect (CFE) plays a crucial role in the amelioration of climate change. Many physiological and environmental factors, such as stand age, stand type, and site conditions, may affect the extent of the CFE. However, the relationsh...
Exploring carbon allocation pattern and its influencing factors is of great significance for estimating the carbon sequestration rate and potential of forest ecosystems. Here, we investigate all carbon pool components (including above and belowground...
In this paper, uneven-aged stands from two important Romanian mountain areas—the Southern Carpathians and Banat Mountains—are compared with the purpose of studying the stationary conditions of uneven-aged forest stands in order to determi...
While uneven-aged silviculture may appear preferable to even-aged silviculture in terms of stand susceptibility to windthrow (major wind damage), the scientific evidence is equivocal on this issue, because the two systems do not operate over the same...
Soil microbial residues contribute to the majority of stable soil organic carbon (SOC) pools, and their distribution among aggregate fractions determines long-term soil carbon (C) stability and, consequently, soil productivity. However, how microbial...
In 2023, branches of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) were placed on 24 different study sites within beech stands in the Czech Republic to study the distribution of the beech bark beetle (Taphrorychus bicolor Her.). After infestation, the branches...
We studied the effects of stand age on allocation and equation fitting of aboveground and below-ground biomass in four Quercus acutissima stands (14, 31, 46, and 63 years old) in the Central Loess Plateau of China. The stem wood, stem bark, branch, f...
Haloxylon ammodendron is a keystone shrub widely used for ecological restoration in arid regions of Northwest China. However, how rhizosphere bacterial communities reorganize across stand ages remains poorly understood. Rhizosphere soils were collect...
Michelia macclurei, a valuable native broad-leaved species with good ecological and economic benefits and a key afforestation tree in South China, is facing progressive stand degradation and soil fertility decline with age. To investigate age-depende...
Aboveground wood carbon (AWC) stocks in forest ecosystems are mediated by biotic and abiotic variables. Understanding the internal regulatory mechanisms of forests is important for future forest management and global climate change mitigation. Howeve...
Cultivated grasslands provide an important strategy for reducing pressure on degraded natural grasslands and increasing high-quality forage supply. However, how stand-age-related variation affects belowground–aboveground coordination and forage...
In this study, we investigated the fluctuation characteristics of micro vertical acceleration of center of mass (vCOMacc) in standing and examined the usefulness of vCOMacc as an aging marker for standing control abilities. Sixteen young and 18 older...
(1) Forest fragmentation and associated edge effects can strongly modify the diversity and distribution of soil invertebrates, yet their responses in temperate floodplain forests remain poorly understood. We investigated myriapod (centipede and milli...
Tree diameter measurements are repetitive, time-consuming, and laborious but necessary to obtain the diameter distribution of the stands. Tree diameter distribution provides much of the information necessary for sustainable management and can be pred...
We studied the effects of stand age on the allocation of biomass and allometric relationships among component biomass in five stands ages (1, 3, 5, 7, and 8 years old) of two eucalypts hybrids, including Eucalyptus urophylla × E. grandis and E....
Forests are among the most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems, in which small mammals play an important ecological role. Their presence is influenced by various habitat parameters, including vegetation structure, microclimate, food resources, and huma...
The emission of CO2 from soil represents one of the most significant fluxes between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. It is crucial to investigate the impact of stand age on soil CO2 emissions in order to evaluate the possibility of carbon s...
This study investigates the effects of stand age on understory plant diversity in Pinus massoniana plantations recovering from fire disturbance, aiming to provide scientific references for urban ecological restoration and forest management. Three sta...
The aboveground biomass (AGB) of forests reflects the productivity and carbon-storage capacity of the forest ecosystem. Although AGB estimation techniques have become increasingly sophisticated, the relationships between AGB, spatial distribution, an...
The area of Cunninghamia lanceolata forests in China is expansive, the soil PhytOC(phytolith-occluded organic carbon) stock of Cunninghamia lanceolata forests is a vital carbon reservoir on the global scale. Soil from the Cunninghamia lanceolata fore...
Many forestry models require the input of stand size class information, a variable with multiple definitions across forest inventories. This work describes a crosswalk between stand age class and stand size class for several forest type groups in Min...
Poplar plantations can acclimate to drought stress in semi-arid areas, where the variation of stand age may result in varied water adaptation strategies presented as hydrodynamic performance. In this study, nine mature Populus simonii Carr. individua...
Stoichiometry provides an integrative framework for evaluating nutrient dynamics in plantation ecosystems. However, whether stand-age-related changes in leaf–litter–soil carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) stoichiometry are consi...
The interferometric coherence parameter γ estimates the degree of correlation between two Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images and can be influenced by vegetation structure. Here, we investigate the use of repeat-pass interferometric coherence γ to...
Accurate estimation of plantation aboveground biomass (AGB) is critical for quantifying carbon cycles and informing sustainable forest resource management, but enhancing estimation accuracy remains a key challenge. Although tree height and stand age...
Uneven-aged silvicultural approaches are increasingly utilized as efficient management strategies for economic and ecological sustainability of forest resources, including in the southeastern United States where there is interest in converting intens...
Despite the great importance of fine roots, which are referred to as roots smaller than 2 mm in diameter, in terms of carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, how fine root biomass, production, and turnover rate change with stand develo...
Tea plants prefer NH4+-N to NO3−-N, and thus nitrification would be detrimental to the N uptake of tea. However, the effects of different stand ages on nitrification and nitrogen oxide (NO and N2O) emissions in tropical and subtropical regions...
Reliable estimates of forest site productivity are a central element of forest management. The model of height-diameter relationship of dominant trees using algebraic difference approach (ADA) is a commonly used method to measure site productivity of...
Land use changes inevitably lead to changes in the carbon stocks stored in the soil. However, despite numerous studies investigating soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics following the afforestation of post-agricultural lands, findings remain diverse an...
Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis Muell.) plantations constitute one of the most important agro-ecosystems in the tropical region of China and Southeast Asia, playing an important role in the carbon budget there. Accurately obtaining their biomass over a la...
The growing demand for wood products and ecosystem services in Chinese fir plantations has led to longer rotation ages and density control practices, raising concerns about their impact on soil fertility. This study assessed soil fertility of Chinese...
Spatial models that provide estimates of wood quality enable value chain optimization approaches that consider the market potential of trees prior to harvest. Ecological land classification units (e.g., ecosite) and structural metrics derived from Ai...
Regional scale maps of homogeneous forest stands are valued by forest managers and are of interest for landscape and ecological modelling. Research focused on stand delineation has substantially increased in the last decade thanks to the development...
This study provides an operational-scale assessment of internal decay caused by Porodaedalea pini in managed Scots pine stands based on data collected during harvesting operations. Unlike previous studies relying on indirect indicators such as fruiti...
Larix gmelinii is the fourth most important tree species in China and a typical zonal climax species in the cold temperate region, with high ecological and resource value. However, intensive logging, high-density afforestation, and insufficient scien...
Measuring forest aboveground biomass (AGB) at local to regional scales is critical to understanding their role in regional and global carbon cycles. The Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program (TNSFP) is the largest ecological restoration project in t...
The purpose of this study was to understand the relationships between stand structure (tree size, volume, biomass, social position, stand density) and the variability of specific leaf area (SLA) at the stand level, which could improve forest manageme...
The water holding capacity of forest soil plays a crucial role in ensuring forest productivity, particularly in Eucalyptus urophylla plantations. In this study, we investigated the soil water holding capacity and hydrological properties of Eucalyptus...
Soil microbial communities are important for nutrient cycling regulation in forest ecosystems. However, limited knowledge exists regarding the characteristics of these microbial communities in Masson pine (Pinus massoniana Lamb.) plantations of diffe...
Masson pine (Pinus massoniana Lamb) has been planted extensively in different parts of China for timber production and habitat restoration. The effects of stand age and management of these plantations on biomass, carbon storage, and soil physicochemi...
Intra-specific variation in functional traits and their inter-relationships reflect how plants allocate resources, adapt, and evolve in response to environmental changes. This study investigated eight functional traits—leaf area (LA), specific...
Water use strategies reflect the ability of plants to adapt to drought caused by climate change. However, how these strategies change with stand development and seasonal drought is not fully understood. This study used stable isotope techniques (&del...
This study examines the differences in growth patterns, biomass accumulation, and carbon storage between planted European beech and Norway spruce in the Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Two approaches were used to analyze young forest trees and stands:...
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