Forests, Volume 16, Issue 4

Safety zones protect firefighters from bodily injury and death caused by exposure to dangerous heat levels. These zones are defined by maintaining a safe distance from combustible fuels, a safe separation distance (SSD) derived from flame height. Thi...

Seasonal droughts induced by climate change pose a significant threat to the normal growth patterns of forests in the subtropical regions of southern China. Therefore, it is crucial to explore the response of tree water use patterns to seasonal droug...

Distinguishing vegetation types from satellite images has long been a goal of remote sensing, and the combination of multi-source and multi-temporal remote sensing images for vegetation classification is currently a hot topic in the field. In species...

It has been widely recognized that replacing chemical fertilizers with organic fertilizers (organic substitution) could significantly increase the long-term productivity of the land and potentially enhance resilience to climate change. Nevertheless,...

New Caledonia is a biodiversity hotspot with flora closely related to that of Australia and has received considerable attention. Endiandra (Cryptocaryeae; Lauraceae) is distributed from tropical Asia to Oceania, including New Caledonia, with northeas...

In recent years, the increasingly significant impacts of climate change and human activities on the environment have led to more frequent occurrences of extreme events such as forest fires. The recurrent wildfires pose severe threats to ecological en...

Constructing a scientific health risk assessment system for ancient trees is crucial for preserving cultural heritage and tree resources. As Fuzhou’s city tree, ancient banyan trees (Ficus microcarpa) with expansive canopies and aerial roots ha...

Severe soil erosion and land productivity degradation caused by inadequate vegetation cover pose significant challenges to regional ecological protection and sustainable development. To assess changes and variations in soil quality, three sample area...

Forest wood biomass is a key renewable resource for advancing energy transition and mitigating climate change. This review analyzes the physicochemical properties of forest biomass from major European tree species to assess their suitability for bioe...

Highland bamboo (Oldeania alpina) plays a vital role in supporting local livelihoods, fostering biodiversity conservation and sustainable land management. Despite these benefits, its significant potential for carbon sequestration remains underutilize...

Green belts, consisting mainly of natural forests, woodlands, and agricultural areas surrounding major cities, play an essential role in regulating urban development and controlling the expansion of metropolitan areas. Although this concept has been...

Using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to recognize forest fires in complex outdoor environments is a hot research direction in the field of intelligent forest fire recognition. Due to the storage-intensive and computing-intensive characteristics...

Canker disease caused by Corinectria constricta has resulted in significant losses of Pinus radiata for the Chilean forestry industry in recent years. Accurate and prompt detection and identification of the pathogen is essential in this context. In t...

Factors such as climate change, fire, and overgrazing have been commonly considered the main causes of the global expansion of shrub invasion in grasslands over the past 160 years. Nevertheless, the influence of soil substrates on the progression of...

Drought threatens the stability of artificial black locust forests on the Loess Plateau, yet there is limited research on the physiological and metabolic responses of mature black locust to drought stress. This study employed a throughfall exclusion...

Forestry heritage tourism can spread the ecological concept of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, and it is a nature-based solution to climate change. However, how tourists are guided to form an emotional identity and how their attenti...

This study investigated the effects of thermal modification treatment on flattened bamboo lumber by using temperature (180 °C, 190 °C, 200 °C) and duration (2, 3, 4 h) as experimental variables. The physicochemical properties, crystallini...

Accurate fire risk assessment in forested terrain is crucial for effective disaster management and ecological conservation. This study innovatively proposes a novel framework that integrates Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) with deep learning techniqu...

The color of the walnut seed coat is a critical determinant of its market value; however, research into the mechanisms responsible for seed coat color formation is yet to be determined. Using two walnut clones with contrasting pale-yellow and light p...

Vertical structure monitoring of urban vegetation provides data support for urban green space planning and ecological management, playing a significant role in promoting sustainable urban ecological development. Three-dimensional green volume (3DGV)...

The intensification of global climate change, combined with increasing human activities, has significantly increased wildfire frequency and severity, posing a major global environmental challenge. As an illustration, Guizhou Province in China encount...

Forest road networks are essential for forest operations but significantly contribute to carbon loss and landscape fragmentation in boreal ecosystems. This study evaluates the potential of reforesting unused forest roads to enhance carbon storage (CS...

This study aims to evaluate the growth characteristics of six Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook.) provenances (S1–S6) from different climatic regions in subtropical China in order to select superior provenances with strong adapt...

Pyrogenic carbon (PyC) is generated from the incomplete combustion of biomass and fossil fuels. Pyrogenic carbon is highly stable and is often referred to as a missing carbon sink. It plays a crucial role in global carbon cycling and climate change r...

In Vietnam, models for estimating Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) to predict carbon stock are primarily based on diameter at breast height (DBH), tree height (H), and wood density (WD). However, remote sensing has increasingly been recognized as a cost-ef...

Nitrogen deposition can significantly impact soil biogeochemical cycling; however, its effects on the decomposition processes and nutrient release from leaf and twig litter in subtropical plantations remain inadequately understood. In this study, we...

Regenerating conifers after harvest through planting and postharvest broadcast application of herbicide is effective in ensuring the survival and growth of seedlings, but faces challenges in meeting broad social and ecological objectives of forest ma...

We developed a model for estimating the carbon storage and volume of entire forest stands at the provincial level, aiming to improve the accuracy of regional productivity assessments. Based on data from the branches, roots, leaves, and trunks of eigh...

Green spaces in waterfront residential blocks, where the water landscape and green space intersect, have a special carbon sequestration effect due to the distinct ecological interaction between water bodies and green spaces. Studying the carbon seque...

This study investigates the vibrational and acoustic properties of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) and Indian rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia Roxb.), two common musical instrument woods, at moisture contents of 2%, 7%, and 12%. The specim...

Urban parks serve as essential carbon sinks in cities, mitigating climate change by sequestering atmospheric CO₂. Maximizing the carbon sequestration potential within constrained urban spaces is a critical step toward carbon neutrality. However, few...

Forest soil respiration plays a crucial role in the global carbon cycle. However, accurately estimating regional soil carbon fluxes is challenging due to the spatial heterogeneity of soil respiration at the stand level. This study examines the spatia...

Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is a pine wood nematode capable of destroying pine forests. Exploring the genes providing resistance to this pathogen and understanding their resistance mechanisms is thus necessary and constitutes an effective way to tackl...

Shrubland vegetation plays a crucial role in ecological processes, but its conservation is facing threats due to climate change, wildfires, and human activities. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or ‘drones’, have become valuable tools for...

Traditional quantitative genetic models in forestry often overlook the influence of an individual’s genes on neighboring trees. However, genetic competition models help bridge this gap. Competition varies among populations, over time, and acros...

Southwest China’s karst region represents a global hotspot for ecological restoration, with natural succession on abandoned farmland emerging as a pivotal mechanism under recent land-use transitions. Despite its ecological significance, empiric...

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of disturbances, calling for extensive salvage logging operations. This study examines fully mechanized cut-to-length operations in the northeastern Italian Alps as a response to windthrow and b...

Accurate mapping of rubber plantation stand age is essential for forest inventory, land use monitoring, and carbon stock estimation. This study proposes a pixel-based approach that integrates the Bare Soil Index (BSI) with Normalized Difference Veget...

Forests play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle, climate regulation, and biodiversity conservation, making them essential for understanding ecosystem responses to environmental change. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics of forest vegetation...

Embryos propagated from vegetative organs can maintain the excellent characteristics of the ortet tree and can make full use of the advantages of somatic embryogenesis technology in the large-scale clonal propagation of forest trees. However, in fore...

Urban green spaces are critical yet understudied areas where anthropogenic and biological sounds interact. This study investigates how vegetation structure mediates the acoustic partitioning of urban soundscapes and informs sustainable forestry manag...

Medium–low density UAV point clouds often suffer from incomplete lower canopy structures and sparse distributions due to self-occlusion. While existing point cloud completion models achieve high metric accuracy, they inadequately address missin...

The outbreak of Pine Shoot Beetle (PSB, Tomicus spp.) posed a significant threat to the health of Yunnan pine forests, necessitating the development of an efficient and accurate remote sensing monitoring method. The integration of unmanned aerial veh...

In the management of forests, the boundaries of individual units of land containing similar forest resources (e.g., stands) are delineated and used to guide the implementation of management activities. Traditionally, stand boundaries are drawn or dig...

Soil moisture is a critical factor influencing the growth and development of terrestrial ecosystems and vegetation. In this study, we utilized data on meteorology, soil moisture, soil texture, and the spatial distribution of planted and natural fores...

The challenges highlighted at the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) emphasize the importance of using renewable resources in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. The building and construction sector is a major contribu...

Currently, it is very important to accurately estimate growing stock volumes; it is crucial for quantitatively assessing forest growth and formulating forest management plans. It is convenient and quick to use the Structure from Motion (SfM) algorith...

Elevational gradients are widely studied to understand environmental variability and species distribution. Ants play vital roles in ecosystems and are frequently included in elevational biogeography studies. Despite their ecological importance and we...

Low temperature is a major stress that severely affects tree growth and development. Despite the fact that the molecular mechanisms behind cold tolerance and associated regulatory networks in these trees remain largely unexplored, we conducted a stud...

To explore the spatiotemporal niche characteristics and changing regularities of insect communities under lamps in a semi-arid region, this paper analyzed Levins’ niche breadth index and the Pianka niche overlap index of 10 orders and 19 select...