Forest Management and Biodiversity
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 8242
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest management; natural resource management; carbon cycle; silviculture; ecosystem ecology; forest ecology; forest and stand structure modeling
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: plant functional traits; impacts of climate change on biodiversity of natural forest ecosystems; remote sensing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
An increasingly large area of forest ecosystems around the world is managed for several purposes, such as timber production, which often conflicts with forest biodiversity conservation goals. Enhancing stand structural complexity is widely recognized as a general objective of forest management to promote habitat richness.
In recent decades, forest management methods such as close-to-nature forestry or retention forestry have been recommended to improve habitat provision for flora and fauna through an increase in the quantities of stand structural elements such as deadwood, large old trees and key species. For practical implementation, this means extending rotation periods, retaining trees of key species or with microhabitat features and increasing deadwood volume artificially. While the advantages of maintaining stand structural complexity are obvious, translating this ideal into specific management prescriptions represents a non-trivial challenge. Accordingly, there is a need to a) review the effectiveness of contemporary forest management approaches used in different regions of the world with the aim of promoting key structural attributes associated with the maintenance of biodiversity, and b) present practical examples of indicators and metrics to quantify stand structural complexity and to monitor the impact of forest management on biodiversity.
We trust that this Special Issue of Plants will contribute to a better understanding of effective approaches to describe and monitor stand structural complexity as an indicator of biodiversity in routine forest management.
Dr. José Javier Corral-Rivas
Dr. Minhui Hao
Dr. Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Forest management approaches
- Stand structural complexity metrics
- Habitat richness
- Biodiversity indicators
- Plant functional diversity
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