18 articles in this issue
Margot Régolini,Céline Meredieu,Hervé Jactel,Ander Arias-González,Manuela Branco,Alejandro Cantero,Amélie Castro,Jean-Yves Fraysse,Barry Gardiner,Andrea Hevia,Francisco-José Lario,Catherine Steffy-Pater,Roque Rodríguez-Soalleiro,Paula Soares,Christophe Orazio
Aim of study: Adaptation of silviculture in planted forest may help to mitigate damage due to biotic and abiotic hazards. However, compromises have to be found because it is not possible to minimize the risk from all hazards through application of a singl... see more
Marco Antonio Contreras,Wesley A Staats,Steven J Price
Aim of the study: Use LiDAR-derived vegetation and terrain characteristics to develop abundance and occupancy predictions for two terrestrial salamander species, Plethodon glutinosus and P. kentucki, and map abundance to identify vegetation and terrain ch... see more
José Gándara,Silvia Ross,Gastón Quero,Pablo Dellacassa,Joaquín Dellepiane,Gonzalo Figarola,Luis Viega
Aim of the study: To analyze the course of leaf water status, water-use efficiency and growth in Eucalyptus grandis and hybrids throughout seasons with different rainfall.Area of study: The study was conducted in northern Uruguay.Methods: A randomized blo... see more
Mar Génova Fuster,Enrique Sadornil
Aim of the study: To provide tree-age estimation of monumental Juniperus thurifera trees based on dendrochronological methods.Area of study: “Sabinar de Calatañazor” Nature Reserve (Calatañazor, Soria, Spain), a monumental forest of Juniperus thurifera tr... see more
Selim Bayraktar,Alessandro Paletto,Antonio Floris
Aim of the study: The aim of this study is to understand quantitative and qualitative characteristics of deadwood in recreational forests.Area of study: Belgrade forest in the North of Istanbul city (Turkey).Material and methods: The data has been collect... see more
Cuong Levan,Hung Buimanh,Bolanle-Ojo Oluwasanmi Tope,Xiaoniu Xu,Thanh Nguyenminh,Chai Lak,Legesse Nebiyou,Jingjing Wang,Thang Buivan
Aim of the study: The major objective of this study was to estimate the biomass increment and carbon (C) storage of the main ecosystem components in an age-sequence of three Acacia mangium plantation stands.Area of study: Chang Riec Historical - Cultural ... see more
Nikolaos Georgios Oikonomakis,Petros Ganatsas
Aim of the study: To investigate the secondary forest succession in the study area and the pathways of its spread and the existing environmental, autecological factors and possible inter-specific competition relationships.Area of study: The study area is ... see more
Manuela Rodríguez-Romero,Alejandro Gallardo,Fernando Pulido
Aim of study: to assess whether constitutive levels of total phenols and condensed tannins acting as chemical defences in Quercus ilex vary across regions, populations and genotypes.Area of study: acorns from six Spanish regions with natural presence of Q... see more
Roberto Contreras-Díaz,Felipe S. Carevic,Vincenzo Porcile,Mariana Arias-Aburto
Aims of the study: Phreatophyte species of the Prosopis genus are very important to natural ecosystems in Africa, South America and Asia due to their uses as food and seed sources and in agroforestry. In this research, through next-generation sequencing, ... see more
Ilker Ercanli
Mariem Ben-Said,Abdelilah Ghallab,Hajar Lamrhari,José Antonio Carreira,Juan Carlos Linares,Lahcen Taïqui
Aim of study: Understanding small-scale patterns caused by stochastic factors or community interactions driving forest structure and diversity of Moroccan fir Abies marocana Trab.Area of study: Talassemtane fir forest, Talassemtane National Park, Rif Moun... see more
Hamed Yousefzadeh,Rasta Rajaei,Bjarne Larsen,Hamid Bina,Gregor Kozlowski
Aim of study: The Caucasian apple (Malus orientalis Uglitzk.) is distributed throughout the Hyrcanian forest. Self-incompatibility (SI) is one of the most important plant strategies to prevent self-fertilization, but the genetic basis of this system has n... see more
Asma Mansoor,Faiza Sharif,Sharoon Hanook,Laila Shahzad,Amin-U. Khan
Aim of Study: The complex community of riparian reserve forest has become of great concern for researchers to develop more viable management strategies. The paper aimed to evaluate the current structural diversity of vegetation and its association with th... see more
Raquel Herranz-Ferrer,Miguel Ángel Copete-Carreño,José María Herranz-Sanz,Elena Copete-Carreño,Pablo Ferrandis-Gotor
Aim of the study: To study the germination ecology of two species of the genus Ribes to reveal their levels of morphophysiological dormancy (MPD) and to facilitate the production of plants from seeds, a key tool for population reinforcement.Area of study:... see more
Yusuf Kurt,Lilian Matallana-Ramirez,William Kohlway,Ross Whetten,John Frampton
Aim of the study: DNA and RNA extraction are still one of the most important and challenging steps of many molecular genetics applications such as Next-Generation Sequencing technologies. In this study, traditional laboratory preparation protocols and com... see more
Vincenzo Bernardini,Silvano Avolio,Manuela Plutino
Aim of study: (1) to assess structural parameters of Giant pines; (2) to compare three several inventories and relative parameters; (3) to assess mechanical stability of Giant pines.Area of study: Sila National Park, Calabria, Italy.Material and methods: ... see more
Jorge-L. Reategui-Betancourt,Daniele Aparecida-A. Arriel,Sidney-Fernando Caldeira,Antonio-Rioyei Higa,Paulo-C. Flôres-Junior,Stefania Palma-Araujo,Rudmilla Menezes Marques,Bruna-Maria-B. Corrêa,Diego Tyszka Martinez
Aim of study: The objective of this work was to identify possible morphological descriptors for teak clones, in order to support the cultivars protection process of this species.Area of study: This experiment was carried out in ‘São José dos Quatro Marcos... see more
Diego Gil-Tapetado,María del Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo,Ángel Valderas,Jose Luis Nieves-Aldrey
Aim of the study: To update the distribution of Dryocosmus kuriphilus, the Asian chestnut gall wasp, focusing on the central area of the country (Sistema Central). Gall samplings of these areas were carried to obtain the first records of parasitoids on D.... see more