Climatic Regulation of Leaf, Cambial Phenology, Physiology, and Metabolism in Wood- and Semi-wood Plants
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 January 2023) | Viewed by 1969
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant stresses; metabolome; plant anatomy; seed germination; leaf area estimation; bioenergy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We have reached a pivotal moment in time, and action is urgently needed if we want to save our planet. Greenhouse gas emissions (GGE) are continuing to rise, raising the global temperature, collecting, retaining, and dumping more water, changing weather patterns, and making wetlands wetter and dry areas drier. The intertropical zone of the planet is anticipated to be the most affected by GGE, with large forest fires expected. Every year, scientists say that an area of about 4 million square kilometers of forest is burned. Most of these fires in Africa are a natural process that has been going on for thousands of years according to Niels Andela (Cardiff University), while Brazilian, Californian, and European forests are being burned due to the drier and hotter summers, a consequence of GGE. Regardless, every forest fire introduces huge volumes of CO2 into the atmosphere, which only exacerbates the environmental climate problem. Many scientists are warning that adaptation to climate in vulnerable countries is inadequate to deal with forest fires, whose tendency is to worsen in frequency and intensity. In these terms, studies that promote the sustainable use of forests, the implementation of exclusive afforestation for the sustainable extraction of cellulose, latex, and pigments, as well as projects and studies of environmental impacts of reforestation policies are welcome in this Special Issue.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Effect of fires on the regeneration of native forests;
- Catastrophic effect of fires on global warming;
- Climate studies: how to predict or accelerate the fight against large fires;
- Catastrophic effects of fires in the Cerrado and Brazilian Amazon Forest;
- Carbon credits and sustainable forests;
- Agroforestry systems;
- How green islands can mitigate atmospheric pollution in large urban centers.
Dr. Marcelo Francisco Pompelli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- carbon credits
- forest fires
- agroforestry systems
- reforestation
- CO2 and global warming
- green island
- plant physiology and metabolism
