14 articles in this issue
 
Kyle Eyvindson,Rami Saad,Ljusk Ola Eriksson
Aim of study: To examine methods of incorporating risk and uncertainty to stand level forest decisions.Area of study: A case study examines a small forest holding from Jönköping, Sweden.Material and methods: We incorporate empirically estimated uncertaint... see more
Ahmad Hosseini,Seyed M. Hosseini,Juan C. Linares
Aim of study: Drought and stand structure are major and interconnected drivers of forest dynamics. Water shortage and tree-to-tree competition may interact under the current climate change scenario, increasing tree mortality. In this study, we aimed to in... see more
José R. Arévalo,Eduardo Estrada,Juan A. Encina,José A. Villareal,Job R. Escobedo,Yaretzi Morales,Israel Cantú,Humberto González-Rodríguez,José Uvalle
Aim of the study: To analyze the impact of the 1998 wildfire on dwarf pine (Pinus culminicola) population stands 18 years after the fire.Area of study: Cerro el Potosí, Nuevo León (México)Material and methods: We measured regeneration, biovolume of indivi... see more
Santosh K. Ojha,Luben D. Dimov
Aim of study: We analyzed the hypothesized causal effects of relative density, density, height, species richness, species diversity, temperature, precipitation, and slope on above ground biomass growth (AGBG).Area of study: Eastern region of the USA.Mater... see more
Carlos A. Mendoza,Juan F. Gallardo,Maria B. Turrión,Valentín Pando,Pablo G. Aceñolaza
Aim of study: To compare litter decomposition dynamics among different species within a single forest type and also between a single species in different forest successional stages.Area of study: Different forests of a known successional sequence of the M... see more
Laila Khedri,Loghman Ghahramany,Hedayat Ghazanfari,Fernando Pulido
Aim of study: This research attempts to quantitatively describe the pollarding process in the northern Zagros, western Iran.Material and methods: An inventory of all trees was conducted in three representative stands in the pollarded section (DBH = 5 cm):... see more
Manuel A. Valbuena,Esperanza Mateos,Francisco Rodríguez
Aim of study: To test the use of LiDAR data from a single acquisition in order to estimate volume overbark variations ina 5-yr period of Pinus radiata D. Don.Area of study: Province of Bizkaia in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country (Spain).Mate... see more
Paulo R. G. Hein,Hannu K. Pakkanen,António A. Dos Santos
Aims of study: Forestry-related companies require quality monitoring methods capable to pass a large number of samples. This review paper is dealing with the utilization of near infrared (NIR) technique for wood analysis.Area of study: We have a global po... see more
Fernando Pérez-Rodríguez,João C. Azevedo,María Menéndez-Miguélez
Aim of the study: To introduce and describe ApkFor©, an Android Open-Source Project to generate basic mobile applications to transfer forest growth and yield models for even-aged stands.Material and methods: ApkFor© was developed in Android Studio using J... see more
Catia Pereira,Itziar A. Montalbán,Tomás Goicoa,M. Dolores Ugarte,Sandra Correia,Jorge M. Canhoto,Paloma Moncaleán
Aim of the study: The effect of physical and chemical conditions at proliferation stage was evaluated in order to elucidate if this stage is the determinant phase to induce a marked effect in Pinus halepensis somatic embryogenesis.Area of study: The study... see more
María I. Cuestas,Claudia Mattioni,Luis M. Martín,Enrique Vargas-Osuna,Marcello Cherubini,María A. Martin
Aim of the study: To evaluate the adaptive genetic variability of chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) populations from southern Spain in relation to bud burst and water stress.Area of study: Andalusia (southern Spain) where many chestnut groves were progress... see more
Juan Asdrúbal Flores-Pacheco,Emigdio Jordán Muñoz-Adalia,Pablo Martínez-Álvarez,Valentín Pando,Julio J. Díez-Casero,Jorge Martín-García
Aim of the study: To assess the impact on two mycoviruses recently described in F. circinatum mitovirus 1, and 2-2 (FcMV1 and FcMV2-2) on i) mycelial growth, ii) spore germination and iii) relative necrosis.Material and methods: Fourteen monosporic strain... see more
Carlos G. Rossa,Paulo M. Fernandes
Aim of study: To reconcile the effects of live fuel moisture content (FMC) on fire rate of spread (ROS) derived from laboratory and field fires.Methods: The analysis builds on evidence from previous fire-spread experimental studies and on a comparison bet... see more