21 articles in this issue
Moises Pescador,Salvador Peris
Aim of the study: The objective is to assess the influences of the tree stand age and other forestry management practices on species richness, composition, and distribution of the Patagonian pine plantation bird assemblages. Area of Study: The work was ca... see more
Carlos A. Mendoza,Juan F. Gallardo Lancho,Pablo G. Aceñolaza,Maria-Belen Turrion,Valentin Pando
Aim of study: The aim of this work was to assess the litterfall contribution and the return of bioelements of a successional forest sequence from the Mesopotamian Espinal (Argentina) which was associated with livestock production.Area of study: Mesopotami... see more
Marina Castro,Esther Fernandez-Nuñez
Aim of study: This paper aims to characterize some soil properties within the first 25 cm of the soil profile and the herbaceous biomass in Quercus forests, and the possible relationships between soil properties and understory standing biomass.Area of stu... see more
Teresa Duque Enes,Teresa Fidalgo Fonseca
Aim of the study: The objective of this paper is to investigate the use of Biomass Conversion and Expansion Factors (BCEFs) in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) stands subjected to thinning.Area of the study: The study area refers to different ecosystem... see more
Said Slimani,Arezki Derridj,Emilia Gutierrez
Aim of the study: The study analyzes the long-term response of Atlas cedar, Cedrus atlantica (Manneti), to climate variability. Area of study: Atlas cedar forest of Guetiane (Batna, Algeria).Material and methods: The dendrochronological approach was adopt... see more
Elena Canga,Alba Fanjul,Sandra Sanchez-Garcia,Manuel Alonso-Graña,Juan Majada
Aim of the study: The objective of this study was to evaluate skidding from stump area to roadside with a tracked skidder (Caterpillar 3DG XL) using two different types of cable (steel or synthetic).Area of study: NW of Spain.Material and methods: A time ... see more
Juan Torres Rojo,Klaus von Gadow,Frantisek Vilcko
Aim of study: This contribution describes a systematic search method for identifying optimum thinning regimes for beech forests (Fagus sylvatica L.) by using a combination of optimization heuristics and a simple whole stand growth prediction model. Area o... see more
Elena Castoldi,Jose A. Molina
Aim of study: We investigated the combined effect of seed mass and number of cotyledons on the seed germination of Pinus sylvestris var. iberica (Iberian Scots pine) in simulated fire conditions.Material and Methods: We used 3,600 fresh seeds extracted fr... see more
Maria F. Pomponio,Susana Marcucci Poltri,Diego Lopez Lauenstein,Susana Torales
Aim of the study: Identify and compare SNPs on candidate genes related to abiotic stress in Prosopis chilensis, Prosopis flexuosa and interspecific hybridsArea of the study: Chaco árido, Argentina. Material and Methods: Fragments from 6 candidate genes we... see more
Eduardo Lopez-Senespleda,Andres Bravo-Oviedo,Rafael Alonso Ponce,Gregorio Montero Gonzalez
Aim of the study: To develop a site index model for Quercus faginea Lam. stands.Area of study: SpainMaterial and Methods: Data from 81 growth series collected in plots where Q. faginea was the main species were used for modelling. Different generalized al... see more
Jose Javier Gorgoso-Varela,Alberto Rojo-Alboreca
Aim of study: In this study we compared the accuracy of the Weibull and the Johnson’s SB functions for describing diameter distributions in pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) and birch (Betula pubescens Ehrh.) stands.Area of study: Galicia (Northwest Spai... see more
Cintia V. Acuña,Pamela Villalba,H. Esteban Hopp,Susana N. Marcucci Poltri
Aim of study: To analyze the feasibility of extrapolating conclusions on wood quality genetic control between different Eucalyptus species, particularly from species with better genomic information, to those less characterized. For this purpose, the firs... see more
Andres Bravo-Oviedo,Susana Barreiro,Katarina Strelcova,Hans Pretzsch
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Andres Bravo-Oviedo,Hans Pretzsch,Christian Ammer,Ernesto Andenmatten,Anna Barbati,Susana Barreiro,Peter Brang,Felipe Bravo,Lluis Coll,Piermaria Corona,Jan den Ouden,Mark J. Ducey,David I. Forrester,Marek Giergiczny,Jette B. Jacobsen,Jerzy Lesinski,Magnus Löf,William L. Mason,Bratislav Matovic,Marek Metslaid,François Morneau,Jurga Motiejunaite,Conor O'Reilly,Maciej Pach,Quentin Ponette,Miren del Rio,Ian Short,Jens Peter Skovsgaard,Mario Soliño,Peter Spathelf,Hubert Sterba,Dejan Stojanovic,Katarina Strelcova,Miroslav Svoboda,Kris Verheyen,Nikolas von Lüpke,Tzvetan Zlatanov
Aim of study: We aim at (i) developing a reference definition of mixed forests in order to harmonize comparative research in mixed forests and (ii) review the research perspectives in mixed forests.Area of study: The definition is developed in Europe but ... see more
Gerald F. Dirnberger,Hubert Sterba
Aim of the study: This paper presents the most appropriate ways to estimate the species proportions by area in mixed stands of Norway spruce (Picea abies L. Karst.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) by comparing stand level and individual tree level... see more
Hubert Sterba,Miren del Rio,Andreas Brunner,Sonia Condes
Aim of study: The aim of this paper is to compare differences in growth per hectare of species in pure and mixed stands as they result from different definitions of species proportions.Area of Study: We used the data of the Spanish National Forest Invento... see more
Hans Pretzsch,Gerhard Schütze
Mixed species forests are presently on the advance and widely held to provide many ecosystem functions and services better than pure stands. Recent studies well explored species mixing effects at the individual tree or stand level. However, the link betwe... see more
Kamil Bielak,Malgorzata Dudzinska,Hans Pretzsch
Aim of study: The objective of this study was to analyse the effect of species mixing of Scots pine and Norway spruce on the productivity at the stand and species level. We also analysed to what extent the mixing effects is modified by drought stress.Area... see more
William L. Mason
Mario Gonzalez Pereira,Jose Aranha,Malik Amraoui
Aim of study: This study aims to identify and characterize the spatial and temporal evolution of the types of vegetation that are most affected by forest fires in Europe. The characterization of the fuels is an important issue of the fire regime in each s... see more