Forest Growth and Regeneration Dynamics

Dear Colleagues,

Forests are highly dynamic, especially at younger ages. Understanding the impacts of silvicultural treatments/interventions on regeneration, growth and yield, forest carbon, and other ecosystem functions and linking early performance to long-term stand dynamics are, therefore, critical to management decisions targeting the provision of multiple benefits to forest ecosystems. Quantitative effects of silvicultural treatments/interventions and linkages between regeneration performance and long-term growth and yield vary with species and site conditions, as well as with disturbances such as pests and changing climate. Traditionally, short-term effects and long-term dynamics are assessed separately at different times and by different researchers, resulting in a lack of information on the quantitative connections between regeneration performance and long-term growth and yield. This has limited our ability to quantitatively evaluate management decisions, forest management planning, and wood supply analysis. This Special Issue will be transdisciplinary and is intended to bridge silvicultural treatments, regeneration performance, intermediate interventions, and long-term growth and yield using field observations, management records, modelling, and data synthesis for understanding and establishing quantitative links between short-term treatment effects and long-term stand dynamics.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Quantitative effects of silvicultural treatments/interventions;
• Linking regeneration to growth and yield;
• Competition and density management;
• Short-term treatment effects and long-term stand dynamics;
• Quantitative tools to measure, model and predict.

Dr. Rongzhou Man
Prof. Dr. Philip G. Comeau
Guest Editors

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• silvicultural treatments/interventions
• regeneration
• stand dynamics
• density management
• growth and yield
• quantitative silviculture