Plant Diversity and Phytogeography in Forests
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2017) | Viewed by 8554
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mapping and assessment of ecosystems and ecosystem services; biodiversity and ecosystem services; inventory and mapping of flora and habitat types/vegetation types; monitoring and conservation status assessment of habitats and species; conservation management of species and habitat types; conservation policy and national biodiversity strategy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests are proven to be one of the richest (in plant diversity) ecosystems, while they simultaneously present high differentiations among types with the same dominant species. As stated in the Annex to Decision II/9 of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, “the biological diversity in forests results in high levels of adaptation, a feature of forest ecosystems which is an integral component of their biological diversity”. Nowadays, many species, even common ones, can be critically endangered, resulting severe disturbance within the forests’ plant communities and to the related ecological processes; thus, the maintenance of the ecological processes in forests is dependent upon the maintenance of their biological diversity, which can be translated to the maintenance of valuable Ecosystem Services, such as climate change regulation, water preservation and maintenance of valuable or potential important biological and genetic resources. With this call for papers, we invite researchers, stakeholders and scientists to contribute to this Special Issue, with studies from all fields, including field studies, statistical analyses, spatial distribution modeling and mapping. Our goal is to enhance the knowledge on forests’ plant diversity, species conservation status, their spatial distribution and the resulting phytogeographical relations, which can be proven as valuable indicators not only for understanding the biological processes and corridors in nature, but for providing important information for the human–forest interaction and for the challenge of the climate change tackling.
Dr. Panayotis Dimopoulos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Climate change
- Conservation status
- Ecosystem Services
- Forest communities
- Forest species
- Phyto-indicators
- Plant distribution
