16 articles in this issue
Jesús Barreal,Maria L. Loureiro
Aim of study: The goal of this paper is to analyse the importance of the main contributing factors to the occurrence of wildfires. Area of study: We employ data from the region of Galicia during 2001-2010; although the similarities shared between this are... see more
Kobra Maleki,Andres Kiviste,Henn Korjus
Aim of study: The present study evaluates a set of competition indices including spatially explicit indices combined with different competitor selection approaches and non-spatially explicit competition indices. The aim was to quantify and describe the ne... see more
Krzysztof Leszczynski,Arkadiusz Stanczykiewicz
Aim of study: The aim of this research was to analyze the workload of the operators while logging at the motor-manual level in coniferous stands undergoing two tending treatments (early and late thinning). The technologies under the investigation employed... see more
Wen Kang,Cheng Tian,Dongwei Kang,Mengjun Wang,Yunxi Li,Xiaorong Wang,Junqing Li
Aim of study: to study the effects of gap size, gap age and bamboo Fargesia denudata on natural regeneration of Abies faxoniana, both of which are the ubiquitous dominants in our research area.Area of study: subalpine coniferous forests in Wanglang Natura... see more
Elsa Varela,Mario Soliño
Aim of study: This article describes and analyzes the links between the fire-based scientific knowledge, the social perception of fire prevention and forest fires and the economic valuation requirements to assess social preferences for fire prevention mea... see more
Teresa del Río García,Sonia Mediavilla,Fernando Silla,Alfonso Escudero
Aims of study: Our aim is to check the effect of different environmental factors on the leaf senescence of four Quercus species with different leaf longevities, to help us better understand the implications of climate change on leaf demography.Area of stu... see more
Julian Alberto Sabattini
Aim of study: The aim of this work was to assess land use and land cover change in Distrito Atencio, near Feliciano, in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina, from 1984 to 2013 and to make a projection of possible changes in the native forests of Espinal ... see more
Miguel Fabra-Crespo,Eduardo Rojas-Briales
Aim of study. The aim of this paper is to analyze how the news media influences the construction of the social perception of forests and forestry.Area of study. The area covered by this study is Spain.Material and Methods. The materials used for the analy... see more
Sandra Sánchez-García,Lars Eliasson,Eduardo Tolosana,Juan Majada,Elena Canga
Aim of the study: The objective of this study was to evaluate recent technological improvements to forest bundlers: a new cutting device with shears and a mechanism which allows the bundling pressure to be changed by the driver.Area of study: eucalyptus p... see more
Antonio Vázquez,José M. Climent,Luis Casais,José R. Quintana
Aim of study. Fire regimes are frequently dynamic and change as a function of the interactions between the three main fire drivers: fuels, ignitions and climatic conditions. We characterized the recent period (1974-2005) and performed estimates for the fu... see more
Miguel E. Castillo Soto,Francisco Rodriguez y Silva
Aim of study: Evaluate the economic extinction efficiency of forest fires, based on the study of fire combat undertaken by aerial and terrestrial means.Area of study, materials and methods: Approximately 112,000 hectares in Chile. Records of 5,876 fores... see more
António J.A. Santos,Ofélia Anjos,Helena Pereira
Aim of the study: The ability of NIR spectroscopy for predicting the ISO brightness was studied on unbleached Kraft pulps of Acacia melanoxylon R. Br.Area of study: Sites covering littoral north, mid interior north and centre interior of Portugal.Material... see more
María F. Pomponio,Cintia Acuña,Vivien Petreath,Diego L. Lauenstein,Susana M. Poltri,Susana Torales
Aim of study: The aim of the study was to characterize functional microsatellite markers in Prosopis alba and examine the transferability to species from the Prosopis genus.Area of the study: samples were obtained from natural populations of Argentina.Mat... see more
Jesus Caballero,Ángel M. Felicísimo,Elia Quirós Rosado
Aim of study: In this study a process based on a Geographic Information System (GIS) is proposed as a tool for analyzing the spatial structure of the Mediterranean dehesa ecosystem.Area of study: Western Peninsular Spain.Material and methods: The method a... see more
Kiomars Sefidi,Vahid Etemad
Aim of study: This study aimed to examine the dead wood inhabiting macrofungi communities occurring on dead beech and hornbeam trees in Caspian forests.Area of study: The Kheiroud forest in the north of Iran.Material and Methods: Data from 205 sampling de... see more