Forests | Invitation to Read Editor’s Choice Articles Selected from Volume 15, Issues 4–6

We are pleased to share the following 10 Editor's Choice Articles published in Forests (ISSN: 1999-4907). These papers were selected by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief from the most notable papers published in Volume 15, Issues 4‒6. All of the selected papers are of particular interest or importance to readers and are all well received by researchers.

1. “Wood Basic Density in Large Trees: Impacts on Biomass Estimates in the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon”
by Flora Magdaline Benitez Romero, Thais de Nazaré Oliveira Novais, Laércio Antônio Gonçalves Jacovine, Eronildo Braga Bezerra, Rosana Barbosa de Castro Lopes, Juliana Sousa de Holanda, Edi Flores Reyna and Philip Martin Fearnside
Forests 2024, 15(5), 734; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15050734
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/15/5/734

2. “The Nitrogen Cycle of a Cool-Temperate Deciduous Broad-Leaved Forest”
by Ruoming Cao, Siyu Chen, Shinpei Yoshitake, Takeo Onishi, Yasuo Iimura and Toshiyuki Ohtsuka
Forests 2024, 15(4), 725; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15040725
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/15/4/725

3. “Temporal Dynamics of Canopy Properties and Carbon and Water Fluxes in a Temperate Evergreen Angiosperm Forest”
by Alexandre A. Renchon, Vanessa Haverd, Cathy M. Trudinger, Belinda E. Medlyn, Anne Griebel, Daniel Metzen, Jürgen Knauer, Matthias M. Boer and Elise Pendall
Forests 2024, 15(5), 801; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15050801
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/15/5/801

4. “Drought Impact on Eco-Physiological Responses and Growth Performance of Healthy and Declining Pinus sylvestris L. Trees Growing in a Dry Area of Southern Poland”
by Barbara Benisiewicz, Sławomira Pawełczyk, Francesco Niccoli, Jerzy Piotr Kabala and Giovanna Battipaglia
Forests 2024, 15(5), 741; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15050741
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/15/5/741

5. “Monitoring Forest Dynamics and Conducting Restoration Assessment Using Multi-Source Earth Observation Data in Northern Andes, Colombia”
by Carlos Pedraza, Nicola Clerici, Marcelo Villa, Milton Romero, Adriana Sarmiento Dueñas, Dallan Beltrán Rojas, Paola Quintero, Mauricio Martínez and Josef Kellndorfer
Forests 2024, 15(5), 754; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15050754
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/15/5/754

6. “Estimating Economic and Livelihood Values of the World’s Largest Mangrove Forest (Sundarbans): A Meta-Analysis”
by Akbar Hossain Kanan, Mauro Masiero and Francesco Pirotti
Forests 2024, 15(5), 837; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15050837
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/15/5/837

7. “Riparian Forests as Nature-Based Solutions within the Mediterranean Context: A Biophysical and Economic Assessment for the Koiliaris River Watershed (Crete, Greece)”
by Mauro Masiero, Giorgia Bottaro, Caterina Righetti, Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis, Maria A. Lilli and Davide Pettenella
Forests 2024, 15(5), 760; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15050760
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/15/5/760

8. “Physical and Mechanical Properties of Fiberboard Made of MDF Residues and Phase Change Materials”
by Gustavo E. Rodríguez, Cecilia Bustos Ávila and Alain Cloutier
Forests 2024, 15(5), 802; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15050802
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/15/5/802

9. “Dynamic Height Growth Equations and Site Index-Based Biomass Models for Young Native Species Afforestations in Spain”
by Rafael Calama, Guillermo Madrigal, Miren del Río, Eduardo López-Senespleda, Marta Pardos, Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado and María Menéndez-Miguélez
Forests 2024, 15(5), 827; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15050827
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/15/5/827

10. “Use of a Consumer-Grade UAV Laser Scanner to Identify Trees and Estimate Key Tree Attributes across a Point Density Range”
by Michael S. Watt, Sadeepa Jayathunga, Robin J. L. Hartley, Grant D. Pearse, Peter D. Massam, David Cajes, Benjamin S. C. Steer and Honey Jane C. Estarija
Forests 2024, 15(6), 899; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15060899
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/15/6/899

We would like to thank all of the research groups behind these exceptional papers for their contribution to Forests. We would greatly appreciate it if you could circulate this document among your colleagues or within your network.

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