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Effects of Disturbances and Climate Change on Woody Plants
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Effects of Disturbances and Climate Change on Woody Plants

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2024 | Viewed by 1344

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Albin Lobo

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Guest Editor
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: woody species; forest genetics; climate change adaptation; tree ecophysiology; tropical forest restoration; sustainable forest management
Dr. Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø

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Guest Editor
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: tree seed; seed production; silviculture; biodiversity conservation; woody plants; agroforestry

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In a rapidly changing world, woody plants play a pivotal role in the bio-based economy, carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem stability, to name a few. At the same time, their stability faces challenges from climate change and various other ecosystem disturbances. Our upcoming Special Issue, "Effects of Disturbances and Climate Change on Woody Plants", aims to foster a deeper understanding of the profound impacts that disturbances and climate change have on woody plants, encompassing both natural ecosystems and managed landscapes. This Special Issue seeks to explore the diverse facets of this critical relationship, spanning topics such as:

  • Responses and adaptation strategies of woody plants to climate change;
  • Impacts of disturbances (wildfires, pests and diseases, land use changes) on forest dynamics;
  • Ecological and economic consequences of climate-driven shifts in woody plant distributions;
  • Mitigation and management strategies to enhance resilience in woody plant ecosystems.

We welcome both original research articles and reviews that contribute to advancing our knowledge in this vital field. Your expertise will enrich the discourse on this pressing issue and aid in the development of effective conservation and management strategies.

Dr. Albin Lobo
Dr. Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Forests is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • disturbances
  • climate change
  • fire
  • grazing
  • resilience
  • vegetation dynamics
  • adaptation
  • mitigation

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Characterization of Change in Tree Cover State and Condition over the Conterminous United States
by Francis K. Dwomoh and Roger F. Auch
Forests 2024, 15(3), 470; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15030470 - 02 Mar 2024
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Variability in the effects of disturbances and extreme climate events can lead to changes in tree cover over time, including partial or complete loss, with diverse ecological consequences. It is therefore critical to identify in space and time the change processes that lead [...] Read more.
Variability in the effects of disturbances and extreme climate events can lead to changes in tree cover over time, including partial or complete loss, with diverse ecological consequences. It is therefore critical to identify in space and time the change processes that lead to tree cover change. Studies of change are often hampered by the lack of data capable of consistently detecting different types of change. Using the Landsat satellite record to create a long time-series of land cover and land cover change, the U.S. Geological Survey Land Change Monitoring Assessment and Projection (LCMAP) project has made an annual time series of land cover across the conterminous United States for the period 1985 to 2018. Multiple LCMAP products analyzed together with map validation reference plots provide a robust basis for understanding tree cover change. In LCMAP (Collection 1.2), annual change detection is based on harmonic model breaks calculated at each Landsat pixel from the Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) algorithm. The results showed that the majority of CCDC harmonic model breaks (signifying change) indicated partial tree cover loss (associated with management practices such as tree cover thinning) as compared to complete tree cover loss (associated with practices like clearcut harvest or fire disturbance). Substantially fewer occurrences of complete tree cover loss were associated with change in land cover state. The area of annual tree cover change increased after the late 1990s and stayed high for the rest of the study period. The reference data showed that tree harvest dominated across the conterminous United States. The majority of tree cover change occurred in evergreen forests. Large estimates of disturbance-related tree cover change indicated that tree cover loss may have previously been underreported due to omission of partial tree cover loss in prior studies. This has considerable implications for forest carbon accounting along with tracking ecosystem goods and services. Full article
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