Forests, Volume 14, Issue 6

Extractives from silver birch (Betula pendula) can play an important role in the future bioeconomy by delivering the feedstock, for instance, for antioxidative applications. It is, therefore, inevitable to gain knowledge of the distribution of extrac...

This scientific paper examines the impact of climate change on the spread and survival of the invasive species Corythucha arcuata Say, 1832 (oak lace bug, or OLB) in Romania. The OLB is native to the Eastern USA and Canada, and in its native habitat,...

Drought affects the growth and production of Fraxinus tree species, such as the precious woody plant Fraxinus mandshurica. Based on interspecific hybrid F1 combinations, D110 plants of F. mandshurica × F. americana with strong drought resi...

By damaging bark, mechanized harvesting deprives wood of its natural mechanical barrier. This study concerns the effect of this damage on the changes in moisture content that occur near the damaged areas of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). This stud...

Accurate large-scale biomass prediction is crucial for assessing forest carbon storage and dynamics. It can also inform sustainable forest management practices and climate change mitigation efforts. However, stand-level biomass models are still scarc...

The surface roughness of wood has a great influence on its performance and is a very important indicator in processing and manufacturing. In this paper, we use the central composite design experiment (CCD experiment) and artificial neural network (AN...

Background: Based on the increasing evidence of forest on health, a research project assessed the structural certification criteria of recreational and therapeutic forests in 15 Bavarian pilot sites. The main project objectives were (1) to develop a...

The browsing of wild ungulates can have profound effects on the structure and composition of forests. In the Swiss National Park, the density of wild ungulates, including red deer (Cervus elaphus), ibex (Capra ibex), and chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra)...

Juniperus drupacea Labill is a unique representative tree which, nowadays, has limited geographical range. In Greece, it exists only in the southeastern part of the Peloponnese, and it is labeled as endangered according to the IUCN in Europe. In the...

Continuous and extensive monitoring of forest height is essential for estimating forest above-ground biomass and predicting the ability of forests to absorb CO₂. In particular, forest height at the national scale is an important indicator reflecting...

Toona sinensis is an important “vegetable and timber” tree species that is widely distributed in eastern and southeastern Asia. An efficient mechanism for preserving and utilizing germplasm resources is crucial for speeding up the process...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) forms the largest terrestrial organic carbon (C) pool, which is regulated by complex connections between exogenous C input, microbial activity, and SOC conversion. Few studies have examined the changes in natural abundance C...

Crown simulation based on basis spline (b-spline) interpolation is a compatible method to simulate tree polymorphism at present. However, there are two problems when it simulates the crown: the first problem is that the derivative value at the top po...

Against the backdrop of the global aging trend, the proportion of the elderly population is severely increasing in the urban areas of underdeveloped regions. Despite evidence that urban forest parks are effective at enhancing the physical and mental...

Tree species classification is a ubiquitous task in the forest inventory field. Only directly measured feature vectors have been applied to most existing methods that use LiDAR technology for tree species classification. As a result, it is difficult...

Cadmium (Cd) accumulation in soil is a serious form of heavy metal pollution affecting environmental safety and human health. In order to clarify the tolerance mechanisms to Cd-contaminated soils under N deposition, changes in plant growth, root arch...

Theoretical tree crop ideotypes have long and narrow live crowns with a high total leaf area. This crown form allows more efficient exploitation of site resources, in part by physically occupying less growing space per unit leaf area and by packing a...

Anthocyanin biosynthesis determines the leaf color of Acer palmatum as a widely-planted landscape tree. Previously, ApMYB1 has been characterized as a positive regulator of anthocyanin biosynthesis. To further elucidate the mechanism of leaf colorati...

Ormosia hosiei is an endemic plant in China listed as a national grade II key protected wild plant with important scientific, economic, and cultural values. This study was designed to predict the potential suitable distribution areas for O. hosiei un...

Aeolesthes sarta or Trirachys sarta is a polyphagous long-horned beetle that has caused severe damage to the Populus alba forests/plantations in its regions of origin. Climate change could accelerate the introduction and spread of invasive pest speci...

Pterocarpus santalinus is considered among the finest luxury woods in the world and has potential commercial and medicinal value. Due to its rich hue and high price, Pterocarpus santalinus has often been substituted and mislabeled with other woods of...

The Grime (1974) CSR framework posits that ecological strategies of competition, stress tolerance and ruderal reflect plants’ adaptability to their survival environments. Karst forests are crucial for terrestrial ecosystem functions. However, h...

Biotic and abiotic stress seriously affects the development of plants, leading to the death of a significant number of plants in natural landscapes. Over the last twelve years, the central zone of Chile has been under an intensive drought, affecting...

Davidia involucrata Baill. (D. involucrata), a rare and endangered wild plant, is native to China and is globally recognized as an ornamental tree species. However, D. involucrata exhibits inherent biological characteristics that contribute to its lo...

This is the first study that quantifies explicitly the impact of present vegetation on concentrations and depositions, considering simultaneously its effects on meteorology, biogenic emissions, dispersion, and dry deposition in three European cities:...

Urban forests provide benefits in terms of the environment and society. Many people living in urban areas could profit from the recreational services provided by urban forests to alleviate the physical and psychological stresses caused by closure res...

Stumps and coarse roots form an important C pool and nutrient pool in a Larix olgensis (Larix olgensis Henry) plantation ecosystem, and their decomposition processes would affect nutrient cycling dynamics of the overall Larix olgensis plantation. We...

Indonesia’s vast forested areas have the potential to serve as a crucial source of livelihood for local communities. However, the current contributions of these forests to community livelihoods are significantly underutilized in comparison to t...

Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) is the main fast-growing timber species in China, and studies of its stand volume are important for evaluating the effectiveness of forest management. However, it is difficult to accurately estimate stand volume...

Whole-biomass adhesives are the research hotspot of wood adhesives andcan improve the competitiveness of adhesives. The tannin–sucrose adhesive studied by our research group shows good bonding performance, but poor bonding stability induced by...

This study aims to verify the wood classification performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), such as VGG16, ResNet50, GoogLeNet, and basic CNN architectures, and to investigate the factors affecting classification performance. A dataset fro...

The ecological environment in the karst region of southwest China is fragile, and vegetation degradation is considered the main cause of this phenomenon. Vegetation growth is affected by preferential flow due to a large number of fissures and macropo...

The global supply chain crisis caused by COVID-19 and the trend of “anti-globalization” continuously impact international trade. As one of the central processing centers of global primary products, China’s forest product enterprises...

Compared with ground-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data, the differential distribution of the quantity and quality of point cloud data from airborne LiDAR poses difficulties for tree species classification. To verify the feasibility of us...

Pb endangers forest ecological health; phytoremediation is an effective Pb remediation technology. Woody plants with Pb tolerance provided a mechanism for the phytoremediation of Pb. Paulownia fortunei (L.), a fast-growing woody plant, has a good tol...

Wood has been used in the construction, furniture, and automotive industries since ancient times. In areas where wood material is used, it is combined with various fasteners. The durability of the products produced using wooden materials depends on t...

Studying the interspecific association and stability of herbaceous communities in different developmental stages of tiankeng is helpful to understand the relationship between tiankeng vegetation and the environment, and can provide an important theor...

Furfurylated wood has many advantages, such as decay resistance, dimensional stability, hardness, etc. However, furfurylation increases the brittleness and decreases the flexural resistance of wood, which greatly limits its application. Therefore, ca...

Species diversity has been shown to be influenced by environmental factors, but the mechanism underlying their relationship remains unclear across spatial scales. Based on field investigation data collected from 3077 sample plots in temperate forest...

Populus nigra ita. is an important tree species for preventing rainfall-triggered shallow landslides and hydraulic bank erosion in New Zealand. However, the quantification of its spatial root distribution and reinforcement remains challenging. The ob...

Stilbenes are a large group of plant phenolic compounds that have a wide range of biologically active properties, such as antioxidant, immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, and anti-angiogenic effects. In plants, stilbenes are involved in the defense...

To determine the spatial–temporal variations and the factors leading to vegetation recovery in the loess hilly and gully region of China, this study analyzed a two-decade trend in the variation of vegetation cover based on normalized difference...

The Civilian Access Control Zone (CACZ), south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea, has functioned as a unique bio-reserve owing to restrictions on human use. However, it is now increasingly threatened by damaged land and...

At the 16th Biennial Conference of Science & Management on the Colorado Plateau & Southwest Region on 12–15 September 2022, the authors hosted a symposium on the topic of “Considering host-microbial interactions in ecosystem resto...

This study quantifies the vegetation impact on urban meteorology by means of the numerical model WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting model). The assessment was made for two months: July and January. These were considered as representative for the s...

Primary forest conversion greatly influences soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration. However, our understanding of how primary forest conversion affects SOC fractions and chemical component evenness remains limited. We examined how primary forest co...

The sensible use of forest resources and the sound management of forests have become increasingly important throughout the years. In keeping with the trend, a composite forestry operation model has emerged. Traditional Chinese culture and forest mana...

Investigating functional plant traits is essential for understanding plant responses and adaptations to global climate change and ecosystem functions. Synchronous observations of multiple plant traits across multiple sites are rare. Here, we obtained...

Urban greening is the most effective way to regulate the microclimate environment and thermal discomfort. However, despite being an important type of vegetation, relatively few studies have investigated the effect of bamboo on microclimate characteri...

Climate change is a major driver of cyclical and seasonal changes in alpine phenology. This study investigated how climate change affects vegetation phenology’s spatial and temporal responses on the Qinghai–Tibet plateau (QTP) from 1981 t...