Forest Physiological and Ecological Processes: Ecophysiology from Molecules to Ecosystems
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2022) | Viewed by 2277
Special Issue Editors
2. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, UGA, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Interests: ecophysiology; ecosystem ecology; silviculture; biogeochemistry
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Interests: climate change; drought; photosynthesis; transpiration; cavitation; embolism; stomata and water relations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests occupy ~30% of Earth’s terrestrial surface but account for ~50% of terrestrial plant productivity, ~45% of terrestrial carbon storage, and play similarly (disproportionately) important roles in other global biogeochemical cycles, thus providing myriad ecosystem services. Understanding how abiotic and biotic factors influence the physiology of forest organisms and how physiological mechanisms of forest organisms regulate ecosystem processes and biogeochemical cycles—in other words, the study of forest ecophysiology—is key to maintaining forest ecosystem services under intensifying natural and anthropogenic pressures. Forest organisms have a range of 22 orders of magnitude in mass, from the tiniest microbes to the largest tree, and ecophysiological techniques measure processes at spatial scales that span even more orders of magnitude in size, from tracing individual molecules to satellite imagery of regional, continental, and global landscapes. The empirical and modeling approaches used to study forest ecophysiology are similarly diverse. In this Special Issue, we broadly explore current research designed to improve our understanding of interactions between forest physiological mechanisms and ecosystem processes in both managed and unmanaged forest ecosystems worldwide. We welcome contributions reporting experimental results from a variety of techniques, including modeling, as well as theoretical results and topical reviews.
Dr. Doug Aubrey
Dr. Daniel Johnson
Dr. William M. Hammond
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abiotic
- biogeochemistry
- biotic
- global change
- physiological ecology
- physiology
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