Research on Sustainable Forest Management in the Context of Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, many topics have been related to climate change, the consequences of which are manifested in increasingly frequent natural disasters, such as ice breaks, windbreaks, floods, and fires. Increasingly frequent extreme weather events leave a negative impacts on forest ecosystems.

Forests and forest lands are essential natural resources responsible for favourable living conditions: clean air, clean and fertile soil, clean water and a favourable climate. The role of forests and forestry in creating and preserving favourable living conditions for humans and the entire biological diversity has never been as crucial as it is today, as they can significantly contribute to mitigating climate change.

For this reason, the current and future activities of the forestry profession and science will be increasingly focused on understanding the consequences of climate change and adaptation to forest management, and this requires the engagement of all components within the forestry sector (silviculture and ecology, forest protection and wildlife management, forest operations, forest inventory, modelling and remote sensing to forest genetics and dendrology and wood technology).

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) cross-disciplinary areas of forestry and wood technology, highlighting sustainability, innovation and the latest research in the following:

• Forest operations (harvesting, biomass, road network planning, ergonomics and work safety, training and certification, supply chains, environmentally friendly forest operations, life cycle assessment, machine design and mechanisation).
• Forest inventory and management (remote sensing, modelling and digitalisation, sensors, dynamics of sustainable management, management of small private forests, etc.).
• Forest ecology (silviculture, phytocoenology, paedology and forest karst melioration with nature protection, etc.).
• Forest protection (forest fires, wildlife management, zoology, entomology, phytopathology, etc.).
• Forest genetics and dendrology (quantitative and population genetics, conservation of genetic resources, stress physiology, dendrology, etc.).
• Wood technology (sustainable wood products, life cycle assessment, bioeconomy, etc.).

We look forward to your contributions.

Dr. Andreja Đuka
Dr. Jelena Kolić
Dr. Mario Ančić
Guest Editors

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