30 articles in this issue
Qin Xi, Wenhao Lai, Youyuan Cui, Hailong Wu and Tingning Zhao
Zbigniew Sierota, Wojciech Grodzki and Andrzej Szczepkowski
The current nature of forest management in Poland reflects its history and more than 100 years of economic activity affecting forests since independence in 1918. Before that time, different forest management models were used, related to the nature of the ... see more
Jorge Castro and Alexandro B. Leverkus
Steffi Heinrichs, Christian Ammer, Martina Mund, Steffen Boch, Sabine Budde, Markus Fischer, Jörg Müller, Ingo Schöning, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Wolfgang Schmidt, Martin Weckesser and Peter Schall
Tree species diversity can positively affect the multifunctionality of forests. This is why conifer monocultures of Scots pine and Norway spruce, widely promoted in Central Europe since the 18th and 19th century, are currently converted into mixed stands ... see more
Juan Uribe-Toril, José Luis Ruiz-Real, Julia Haba-Osca and Jaime de Pablo Valenciano
Hua Zhou, Yang Luo, Guang Zhou, Jian Yu, Sher Shah, Shengwang Meng and Qijing Liu
Subtropical forest productivity is significantly affected by both natural disturbances (local and regional climate changes) and anthropogenic activities (harvesting and planting). Monthly measures of forest aboveground productivity from natural forests (p... see more
Ram P. Sharma, Zdenek Vacek, Stanislav Vacek and Miloš Kucera
Height-to-diameter at breast height (DBH) ratio (HDR) is an important tree and stand stability measure. Several factors such as stand dynamics, natural and anthropogenic disturbances, and silvicultural tending significantly affect HDR, and, therefore, in-... see more
Patricio Mac Donagh, Santiago José Elías Velazco, Guido F. Botta, Tomas Schlichter and Frederick Cubbage
Forest plantations have increased in South America for several decades. Harvesting is performed mainly through contractor companies. Our hypothesis is that logging contractors that innovate, grow more than others. We analyzed logging contractors through p... see more
Michal Ružek, Oldrich Myška, Jirí Kucera and Filip Oulehle
Fei Yu, Thuy Van Truong, Qian He, Lei Hua, Yan Su and Jiyue Li
Frank S. Gilliam
Research Highlights: Excess N from atmospheric deposition has been shown to decrease plant biodiversity of impacted forests, especially in its effects on herbaceous layer communities. This work demonstrates that one of the mechanisms of such response is i... see more
Shixin Deng, Kankan Shi, Jiang Ma, Lili Zhang, Luyi Ma and Zhongkui Jia
Noboru Ito, Naoya Okubo and Yohei Kurata
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Zhanlei Rong, Chuanyan Zhao, Junjie Liu, Yunfei Gao, Fei Zang, Zhaoxia Guo, Yahua Mao and Ling Wang
Tiago M. Condé, Niro Higuchi and Adriano J. N. Lima
Illegal selective logging and forest fires occur on a large scale in the northern Brazilian Amazon, contributing to an increase in tree mortality and a reduction in forest carbon stock. A total of 120 plots of 0.25 ha (30 ha) were installed in transitiona... see more
Veronika Lukasová, Tomáš Bucha, Jana Škvareninová and Jaroslav Škvarenina
Ming Gao, Yicun Chen, Liwen Wu and Yangdong Wang
Yanbo Yang, Hailiang Lv, Yujie Fu, Xingyuan He and Wenjie Wang
A better understanding on the associations between road density (RD), urban forest structural-taxonomic attributes, and landscape metrics is vital for forest ecological service evaluations and suitable management in sprawling urban areas with increasing r... see more
Yao Xiao, Wenjun Ma, Nan Lu, Zhi Wang, Nan Wang, Wenji Zhai, Lisheng Kong, Guanzheng Qu, Qiuxia Wang and Junhui Wang
Feng Wu, Mei Li, Baowen Liao, Xin Shi and Yong Xu
Eeva Terhonen, Gitta Jutta Langer, Johanna Bußkamp, David Robert R?scutoi and Kathrin Blumenstein
Ying Fan, W. Keith Moser and Yanxia Cheng
Hang Shi, Fenglin Xie, Quan Zhou, Xiao Shu, Kerong Zhang, Chaoqi Dang, Shuiyuan Feng, Quanfa Zhang and Haishan Dang
Topography strongly influences the compositional structure of tree communities and plays a fundamental role in classifying habitats. Here, data of topography and 16 dominant tree species abundance were collected in a fully mapped 25-ha forest plot in the ... see more
Salwa Haddad, Wolfgang Britz and Jan Börner
The European forestry sector is a potential driver of transformation towards a sustainable bioeconomy. Forest products are increasingly used in high-tech and high-value-added industries, e.g., chemicals and the automotive industry. So far, however, resear... see more
Lei Gu, Yufeng Zhou, Tingting Mei, Guomo Zhou and Lin Xu
Bamboo forest is characterized by large carbon sequestration capability and it plays an important role in mitigating climate change and global carbon cycling. Previous studies have mostly focused on carbon cycling and carbon stocks in bamboo forest ecosys... see more
Ivica Cehulic, Krunoslav Sever, Ida Katicic Bogdan, Anamarija Jazbec, Željko Škvorc and Saša Bogdan
Elizabeth R. Rogers, Ronald S. Zalesny, Jr., Richard A. Hallett, William L. Headlee and Adam H. Wiese
Ariel E. Lugo and Grizelle González
David Gritten, Sophie Rose Lewis, Gijs Breukink, Karen Mo, Dang Thi Thu Thuy and Etienne Delattre
The forest landscapes of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) are changing dramatically, with a multitude of impacts from local to global levels. These changes invariably have their foundations in forest governance. The aim of this paper is to assess percep... see more