Forests, Volume 13, Issue 8

During inventories of lesser-known timber species in eastern Gabon, a new Dialium morphospecies was discovered. To discriminate it from the two other 2–5 leaflets Dialium species, 25 leaf traits were measured on 45 trees (16 Dialium pachyphyllu...

Secondary metabolites are ubiquitous substances occurring naturally in trees and microorganisms. They are produced in various metabolic pathways which determine their structure and biochemical proprieties. However, the biological functions of many se...

Slash pine (Pinus elliottii Engelmann) is a pine species widely cultivated for its high oleoresin production capacity. However, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanism of oleoresin biosynthesis between high and low oleoresin-yielding...

Plant community formation is determined by plant competition, while the water uptake depth of vegetation is regarded as a critical factor in maintaining species coexistence under competition. However, the source variation of montane plant water uptak...

“Interspecific associations” refers to the interrelationship among different species in a particular spatial distribution, which plays an important role in species distribution, community assembly, and responses to environmental changes....

The course of the bark beetle-vectored fungus, Leptographium terebrantis S. J. Barras and T. J. Perry, in stemwood growth loss of declining pines in the southeastern United States was assessed in a 13-year-old loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantatio...

Common beech is a shade-tolerant tree species that can adapt to varying light intensities at the level of whole plants, crown fragments, and individual leaves. The acclimation abilities of the morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteris...

Forest fires are highly unpredictable and extremely destructive. Traditional methods of manual inspection, sensor-based detection, satellite remote sensing and computer vision detection all have their obvious limitations. Deep learning techniques can...

The taiga forest, a semi-arid and nitrogen-limited ecosystem on permafrost, has changed under extreme wet events. This study aims to understand the changes that occurred in a larch forest in Eastern Siberia after the wet event of 2006–2007. In...

Triadica sebifera (Linnaeus) Small is a tree species native to China. The seeds of T. sebifera are rich in oil and are widely used in industrial fields. To explore the genetic diversity and genetic differentiation of T. sebifera germplasm resources,...

High risk-adjusted returns, low correlation with financial asset classes and inflation hedging are investment characteristics that make forests a desirable investment opportunity. To examine returns on forestry investments (from 2011 to 2020), we foc...

Mountain biking has increased in popularity in many countries over recent decades. Production forests provide not only an outstanding space for mountain bike riding, but also specific characteristics conducive to purpose-built track building. With re...

Elevated nitrogen (N) deposition may further acidify soils in tropical forests. Yet, we have limited evidence on this prediction and it remained unclear how this would affect fine root growth therein. Here, we report responses of fine root biomass, v...

Fire is a major disturbance for forests and its impacts can be complex, influenced by a range of factors including fire severity and frequency. Changes to global climate have increased the frequency and lengthened the window for wildfires. Anthropoge...

To improve the dispersion of graphene oxide particles in wood for better thermal conductivity, this paper proposes the feasibility of obtaining graphene oxide with a smaller particle size using ball milling and its application in melamine resin-modif...

Scientifically analyzing the spatial pattern and spillover effect of the eco-efficiency of regional tourism embodies the green development theory. In addition, it is also of important significance for realizing the sustainable development of regional...

Genetic characterization is vital for tree germplasm utilization and conservation. Nanmu (Phoebe zhennan S. Lee. et F. N. Wei) is an extremely valuable tree species that can provide logs for many industrial products. This study aimed to assess the ge...

Functional traits are important indicators for examining ecological processes and after-effects of plant community restoration after large-scale geological disturbance. Sample sites with and without landslides in typical forest ecosystems within the...

Forest disease is one of the most important factors affecting tree growth and product quality, reducing economic values of forest ecosystem goods and services. In order to prevent and control forest diseases, accurate detection in a timely manner is...

Establishment of exotic plantations is one of the most effective ways to induce natural regeneration for the restoration of degraded lands, as it has the potential to improve soil properties and creates favorable microclimates. This study aims to det...

Understanding the factors influencing tree productivity is central to forest ecology. However, the relative contributions of neighborhood interactions, tree species diversity, and tree size to larch (Larix principis-rupprechtii) productivity require...

The continuous research and development regarding firefighters’ personal protective equipment (PPE) has led to significant improvements in recent decades. Despite the evolution of firefighters’ PPE, every year an undesirable number of fir...

This paper deals with the design and operational evaluation of a timber tractor-trailer unit with a hybrid trailer drive. The source of electrical energy for the two induction motors driving the front wheels of the tandem trailer axle is a battery, w...

To achieve the goal of carbon neutrality, overseas plantation projects have been conducted in several countries, including Vietnam. In the present study, stand growth models and a yield table were developed and used to analyze the economic feasibilit...

A changing climate and global warming have adversely affected Pakistan’s moist and dry temperate vegetation. Abies pindrow (fir) (Royle ex D.Don) Royle and Picea smithiana (spruce) Wall.) Boiss are the two major representative species of the mo...

Forest certification as a typical green trade measure has been gradually adopted by developed countries. Although it can promote the upgrading of forest products’ trade structure, it also threatens the stability of export growth. However, most...

Parental support for children’s Forest School (FS) education is likely connected to the parents’ own views about FS. We investigated parents’ perceptions of FS by performing a qualitative study on parents’ views, as expressed...

The site quality evaluation of plantations has consistently been the focus in matching tree species with sites. This paper studied the site quality of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantations in Lin’an District, Zhejiang Province, Chin...

Climate is a strong predictor of the geographic distribution of tree species, and thus climate change may trigger shifts in the distribution of a tree species and/or its demographic structure. In the study, we aim to comprehensively compare the distr...

A large number of trees have been planted in built-up areas to improve the urban environment, but the effects of tree cover on spontaneous understory herbs are not yet well understood. This study surveyed spontaneous herbs in two kinds of habitats (h...

The aim of the study was to compare the efficiency and the direct costs of wood forwarding with a farm tractor with a trailer in a gap cutting and in the late thinning of a stand. The forwarding productivity was determined by the timing method. The u...

The mechanism of Picea wilsonii adapting to abiotic stress remains largely unknown. NAC (NAM, ATAF and CUC) transcription factors play significant roles in plant response to adverse environments. In this study, based on our previous RNA-seq, we analy...

Deforestation and degradation of mangrove forests can be categorized as key environmental problems in Indonesia. These problems are majorly driven by overexploitation and the conversion of mangroves into brackish water aquaculture areas. One of the m...

The hydroperiod determines the biogeochemical conditions and processes developing in the mangrove soil. Floods control the input of nutrients and the presence of regulators such as salinity and sulfides that, in high concentrations, degrade mangrove...

Tea plant necrotic ring blotch virus (TPNRBV), which carries four positive-sense single-stranded RNA segments, causes discoloration spots and multiple necrotic ring blotches in tea trees. To understand the distribution and transmission of TPNRBV in t...

Structural complexity of trees is related to various ecological processes and ecosystem services. To support management for complexity, there is a need to assess the level of structural complexity objectively. The fractal-based box dimension (D_b) pro...

In order to meet the growing demand for raw material of solid biofuels, it is imperative to find alternative materials of low cost, underutilized so far. In this study, wood and bark material of two common cypress species (Mediterranean and Arizona c...

The identification of wildfires is a very complex task due to their different shapes, textures, and colours. Traditional image processing methods need to manually design feature extraction algorithms based on prior knowledge, and because fires at dif...

The occurrence of forest fires causes serious damage to ecological diversity and the safety of people’s property and life. However, due to the complex forest environment, the changeable shape of forest fires, and the uncertainty of flame color...

Abiotic stress is one of the environmental conditions that effects plant survival and growth. As a vital model plant and papermaking raw material, it is very important to identify the differentially expressed genes of Populus trichocarpa Torr. &...

(1) Background: The destruction of peatlands caused by forest fire can significantly damage the ecosystems, flora, and fauna found in forests. Swamp jelutung (Dyera polyphylla) is a tree species that can be planted on peatland and combined with seaso...

δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N were analyzed in the leaves of Pinus sylvestris L. and Betula spp. under the conditions of severe heavy metal (Zn, Cu, Cd, and Pb) contamination. Twenty-seven plots located near the Karabash copper smelter (Russia) were stud...

Hurricanes often devastate trees throughout coastal China; accordingly, developing a method to quantitatively evaluate the changes in tree phenotypic characteristics under continuous strong winds is of great significance for guiding forest cultivatio...

Ultrasound is a reliable non-destructive method commonly used to evaluate the state of a piece of wood. The effect of the moisture content (MC) on the timber wave velocity, which is different depending on the wood species, must be considered. MC adju...

The Brazilian Cerrado biome is a hotspot due to its ecological importance and high diversity of fauna and flora. We aimed to develop statistical models to predict the crown diameter of open-growing trees using several forest attributes. Potential cro...

Productivity assessment studies are essential in forest operations, mainly because their results enable operational planning and rate setting, the development of equitable payment systems, the assessment of environmental performance, the assessment o...

Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) is a critical forest resource in subtropical China, and reasonable cutting management of moso bamboo forests is essential for improving the productivity of bamboo forests, increasing the income of farmers, and impro...

Forest harvesting and fire are major disturbances in boreal forests. Forest harvesting has modified stand successional pathways, which has led to compositional changes from the original conifer-dominated forests to predominantly mixed and hardwood fo...

Acid forest soils in South China experience a chronically elevated input of atmospheric nitrogen (N), turning them into hot spots for gaseous N emissions. Soil moisture is known to be a major controller for the partitioning of gaseous N loss to nitri...

The auto exhaust and dust derived from increased traffic volumes have led to an increasing level of atmospheric particulates in urban areas, which have become a primary pollutant of ambient air in urban zones. Roadside plants can effectively retain a...