Bridging the Gap between Regional Scale Forest Modelling and Field-Based Research
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2018)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vegetation phenology; forest demography; carbon sequestration; drought and disturbance resilience; dendrochronology; model data fusion; computer vision and remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forest ecology and its various sub-disciplines provide insight into how forests function and interact with biogeochemical and hydrological cycles. In the broadest sense, forest ecology covers and, ideally, integrates experimental and theoretical plant sciences with contributions from the field, as well as remote sensing and modeling exercises. However, regional scale modeling exercises and model parameterization are often limited by inadequate field based data, and integration thereof, while physiological and field studies are constrained by their limited ability to scale beyond local environments.
In this Special Issue of Forests we solicit manuscript submissions using both top-down and bottom-up approaches in order to bridge the gap between regional scale vegetation modelling and field-based forest research, integrating novel or under-utilized measurements. In particular, we encourage the submission of top-down regional vegetation modeling exercises which use field based measurements as constraints during model development. At the same time we call for field-based, bottom-up, studies with an explicit regional scale modeling component. Novel or under-utilized measurements can include, but are not limited to, dendrochronological sequences, long-term ecological monitoring data (i.e., inventory data), near-surface remote sensing, and data gathered in past or ongoing manipulation experiments.
We hope this Special Issue will compile a selection of high quality research bridging the interfaces of modeling, remote sensing and field-based methods in forest ecology.
Dr. Koen Hufkens
Dr. Margaret Kosmala
Dr. Tim Rademacher
Dr. David Basler
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Forest (vegetation) Modeling
- Data Re-Analysis/Synthesis
- Wood and Plant Traits
- Retrospective Ecological Data
- Near-Surface Remote Sensing
- Long-Term (Historical) Ecological Measurements
