30 articles in this issue
Qifei Cai, Bin Li, Furong Lin, Ping Huang, Wenying Guo and Yongqi Zheng
Dongfan Piao, Moonil Kim, Go-Mee Choi, Jooyeon Moon, Hangnan Yu, Woo-Kyun Lee, Sonam Wangyel Wang, Seong Woo Jeon, Yowhan Son, Yeong-Mo Son and Guishan Cui
María Castaño-Díaz, Marcos Barrio-Anta, Elías Afif-Khouri and Asunción Cámara-Obregón
A willow short rotation coppice (SRC) trial was conducted on former mining land in northern Spain over a period of five years, with the purpose of evaluating the effects on yield of two planting densities (9876 and 14,815 cuttings ha-1), three treatments ... see more
Tomohiro Yokobe, Fujio Hyodo and Naoko Tokuchi
The soil microbial community and nitrogen (N) dynamics change seasonally due to several factors. The microbial community structure (MCS) can regulate N dynamics. However, there is insufficient information on seasonal changes in MCS and the relationship be... see more
Paula J. Fornwalt, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann and Byron J. Collins
The 2002 Hayman Fire burned with mixed-severity across a 400-ha dry conifer study site in Colorado, USA, where overstory tree and surface cover attributes had been recently measured on 20 0.1-ha permanent plots. We remeasured these plots repeatedly during... see more
Ellen Whitman, Marc-André Parisien, Dan K. Thompson and Mike D. Flannigan
Melanie Feurer, David Gritten and Maung Maung Than
Jiancheng Zhao, Bo Wang, Qin Li, Hejun Yang and Kang Xu
Yangrui Han, Weifeng Wang, Weiyan Zhang, Jun Zhang and Dandan Shan
Standing biomass stocks represent a balance between a number of processes that lead to biomass accumulation or to biomass loss. The average time of biomass residence (ATr) of an ecosystem is the average period of time that carbon is locked up in the livin... see more
Joseph Shannon, Matthew Van Grinsven, Joshua Davis, Nicholas Bolton, Nam Jin Noh, Thomas Pypker and Randall Kolka
Nicholas Bolton, Joseph Shannon, Joshua Davis, Matthew Van Grinsven, Nam Jin Noh, Shon Schooler, Randall Kolka, Thomas Pypker and Joseph Wagenbrenner
Kenneth L. Clark, Heidi J. Renninger, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael Gallagher and Karina V. R. Schäfer
Understanding processes underlying forest carbon dynamics is essential for accurately predicting the outcomes of non-stand-replacing disturbance in intermediate-age forests. We quantified net ecosystem production (NEP), aboveground net primary production ... see more
Yunfei Bao, Wenjian Ni, Dianzhong Wang, Chunyu Yue, Hongyan He and Hans Verbeeck
Inkyin Khaine, Su Young Woo, MyeongJa Kwak, Seong Han Lee, Sun Mi Je, Hana You, Taeyoon Lee, Jihwi Jang, Hyun Kyung Lee, Hyo Cheng Cheng, Jeong Ho Park, Euddeum Lee, Yang Li, Haenaem Kim, Jong Kyu Lee and Jieun Kim
Natural regeneration is an essential component of forest dynamics and the recovery of ecosystem functions. Therefore, understanding regeneration status, and how abiotic and biotic factors affect it, is important for ecological studies. This study discover... see more
Jian J. Duan, Leah S. Bauer, Roy G. Van Driesche and Juli R. Gould
Giorgia Bottaro, Lisandro Roco, Davide Pettenella, Stefano Micheletti and Julien Vanhulst
A.S.M. Azmul Huda, Ahmed Koubaa, Alain Cloutier, Roger E. Hernández, Pierre Périnet and Yves Fortin
This study aims to understand the phenotypic and genotypic correlations among wood anatomical, physical, and mechanical properties of hybrid poplar clones. Samples were taken from seven clones grown on three sites in Southern Quebec, Canada. Five trees pe... see more
Kalle Kärhä, Ville Koivusalo, Teijo Palander and Matti Ronkanen
Brenda Shepherd, Brad Jones, Robert Sissons, Jed Cochrane, Jane Park, Cyndi M. Smith and Natalie Stafl
Whitebark pine forests are declining due to infection by white pine blister rust and mountain pine beetle, combined with the effects of climate change and fire suppression. The Canadian Rocky and Columbia Mountains represent a large portion of the whiteba... see more
Jean-Noël Candau, Richard A. Fleming and Xianli Wang
Swati Negi, Thu Thuy Pham, Bhaskar Karky and Claude Garcia
A growing literature on collective action focuses on exploring the conditions that might help or hinder groups to work collectively. In this paper, we focus on community-based forest management in the inner Terai region of Nepal and explore the role of co... see more
Lingnan Zhang, Yuan Jiang, Shoudong Zhao, Liang Jiao and Yan Wen
Claudia Cocozza, Roberto Tognetti and Alessio Giovannelli
Stem radius variations are remarkably synchronous to weather conditions. Climate fluctuations can forecast the occurrence and severity of environmental disturbance on radial variations, as well as tissue sensitivity and tree growth. Radial variations were... see more
Darius Kavaliauskas, Barbara Fussi, Marjana Westergren, Filippos Aravanopoulos, Domen Finzgar, Roland Baier, Paraskevi Alizoti, Gregor Bozic, Evangelia Avramidou, Monika Konnert and Hojka Kraigher
The conservation and sustainable use of forests and forest genetic resources (FGR) is a challenging task for scientists and foresters. Forest management practices can affect diversity on various levels: genetic, species, and ecosystem. Understanding past ... see more
Claudia García-Ventura, Álvaro Sánchez-Medina, M. Ángeles Grande-Ortíz, Concepción González-García and Esperanza Ayuga-Téllez
Urban trees are generally considered to be a public asset and are an important part of a city’s heritage. The aim of this work is to analyse the influence of season on the economic appraisal of various trees in Madrid. Photographs were taken of 43 individ... see more
Sara A. Goeking and Deborah Kay Izlar
Lei Fang, Jian Yang, Megan White and Zhihua Liu
Tanya Baycheva-Merger, Metodi Sotirov, Sara Holmgren and Andy Selter
Adequate and accessible expert-based forest information has become increasingly in demand for effective decisions and informed policies in the forest and forest-related sectors in Europe. Such accessibility requires a collaborative environment and constan... see more
Laura Hernandez-Escribano, Eugenia Iturritxa, Ana Aragonés, Nebai Mesanza, Mónica Berbegal, Rosa Raposo and Margarita Elvira-Recuenco
Evandro Ferreira da Silva, Gilson Fernandes Da Silva, Evandro Orfanó Figueiredo, Daniel Henrique Breda Binoti, Adriano Ribeiro de Mendonça, Carlos Moreira Miquelino Eleto Torres and José Eduardo Macedo Pezzopane