Forest Ecosystems in a Changing Climate

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 37

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School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Queens College, City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Interests: biosphere–atmosphere interaction; boundary layer meteorology; eddy flux measurements and modelling from globally synthetic data analysis to site-specific analysis; tree mortality; forest resilience and tipping point; ecosystem responses to extreme weather/climate
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Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment, Queens College, City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Interests: biosphere-atmosphere interaction; eddy covariance; urban air quality

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School of Computer Science, China University of Labor Relations, Beijing 100048, China
Interests: global change ecology; atmosphere–biosphere interactions; ecosystem modeling; carbon cycle; climate change; geosciences; remote sensing; machine learning

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Forests, the main body of the terrestrial ecosystem and where most carbon sequestration occurs on land, are the main non-oceanic force to slow the carbon dioxide (CO2) accumulation rate in the atmosphere. The volume, age, health, growth, and spatial and temporal variance impact the capacity of forests for carbon sequestration and climate warming mitigation. This Special Issue aims to better understand the interactions between forest ecosystems and the atmosphere, as well as the forests’ response to a changing climate, through quantitative analysis of the exchange of energy, water, and CO2 between forest and atmosphere, based on observations from the platform of land, airplanes, and satellites, and the technology of Remote Sensing, GIS, Machine Learning, and so on. We welcome any submission of original research articles and reviews on the interactions between forest and atmosphere, including but not limited to forest production, evapotranspiration, forest fires, forest cover change, tree mortality, forest ecology, etc., as well as their variations across space and time.

We look forward to receiving your contributions to this Special Issue on forest ecosystem response to climate.

Prof. Dr. Chuixiang Yi
Dr. Eric Kutter
Dr. Zhenkun Tian
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • forest gross/net primary production
  • forest volume and area change
  • forest evapotranspiration
  • forest eddy covariance measurements and modeling
  • afforestations and deforestations
  • tree mortality
  • forest fire
  • droughts
  • heatwaves
  • pathogens
  • bark beetles
  • remote sensing
  • geographic information system

Published Papers

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