Biodiversity Conservation in Managed Forests
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2019) | Viewed by 34366
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wildlife; forestry; forest ecology; silviculture; biodiversity; forest regeneration
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Special Issue Information
Forests are often managed for the supply of forest products such as timber, pulpwood, fuelwood, medicines, resins, and food. They are also managed for ecosystem services such as watershed protection, carbon sequestration, and airshed production. In addition, forests provide recreational opportunities and spiritual aspects that people value. Central to all these interests is forest biodiversity, the variety of life from genes to species and habitat types. Among terrestrial habitats, forests are the most biodiverse because of their structural heterogeneity and variety of available niches.
Management strategies often produce very different types of forests including protected areas for recreation and/or conservation of biodiversity, naturally regenerated native forests for wood production, monoculture plantations of native or exotic species for pulp or paper, and short-rotation biomass plantations. Regardless of objectives, forest managements are confronted by challenges ranging from increasing demand for forest products, land-use policies, invasive pests and pathogens, and climate change.
This Special Issue of Forests focuses on strategies to mitigate human pressures on managed forests with respect to maintenance of biological diversity. Manuscripts on any aspect of biological diversity conservation in managed forests are welcome, but of particular interest are manuscripts that offer strategies for maintaining biodiversity that do not significantly compromise the sustainable flow of forest products, ecosystem services, and recreational opportunities in managed forests.
Dr. Todd Fredericksen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- forests
- conservation
- biodiversity
- forest ecology
- forest management
- wildlife
- silviculture
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