Growth Dynamics of Tree Species: Measurement and Modeling
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest management; forest biometrics; precision silviculture; forest inventory; forest statistics; applied artificial intelligence; forest modeling
Interests: tree growth modeling; forest monitoring; climate change; ecoinformatics; forest biodiversity
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Interests: forest biometrics and mensuration; timber management; forest policy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tree species growth dynamics focus on understanding how trees grow, develop, and interact with their environment throughout their life cycle, covering a variety of biological, ecological, and environmental processes affecting tree growth from the seedling stage to full maturity. These closely interconnected processes are crucial for gaining insights into forest dynamics, guiding sustainable management practices, and predicting how forests will adapt to environmental changes. This makes measurement and modeling vital biometric tools for understanding tree species growth dynamics within a specific forest or ecosystem and managing said ecosystem in a rapidly changing world. This Special Issue aims to showcase selected contributions on tree species growth dynamics, with a focus on applying growth dynamics models to forest management, climate change research, conservation, biodiversity, and forestry decision making.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Tree and standard growth dynamics models;
- Measurement of tree growth dynamics;
- Systems of growth and yield dynamics;
- Climate change and tree growth dynamics;
- Machine learning in tree species growth dynamics;
- Applications of tree growth dynamics;
- Forestry decision making through growth models;
- Challenges in forest measurement and modeling.
Dr. Hector Manuel De Los Santos Posada
Prof. Dr. José Javier Corral-Rivas
Prof. Dr. Gerónimo Quiñónez Barraza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- growth models
- growth dynamics
- forest modeling
- machine learning
- biological, ecological, and environmental processes
- climate change and modeling
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