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  1. Forests are increasingly valued for non-timber ecosystem services in place of conventional wood fiber production. Biomass carbon sequestration is one of the key ecosystem services forests are relied upon for m...

    Authors: Xuhua Li, Tanzeel Javaid Aini Farooqi, Chao Jiang, Shirong Liu and Osbert Jianxin Sun

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:22

    Content type: Research

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  2. To accurately and efficiently quantify forest carbon stocks, a good forest inventory using appropriate sampling that minimizes costs and human effort is needed for landowners who want to enter carbon offset ma...

    Authors: Yingbing Chen, Ting-Ru Yang, Yung-Han Hsu, John A. Kershaw Jr and Dale Prest

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:13

    Content type: Research

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  3. Human impacts on Earth’s ecosystems have greatly intensified in the last decades. This is reflected in unexpected disturbance events, as well as new and increasing socio-economic demands, all of which are affe...

    Authors: Christian Messier, Jürgen Bauhus, Frederik Doyon, Fanny Maure, Rita Sousa-Silva, Philippe Nolet, Marco Mina, Núria Aquilué, Marie-Josée Fortin and Klaus Puettmann

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:21

    Content type: Discussion

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  5. Climate-induced challenge remains a growing concern in the dry tropics, threatening carbon sink potential of tropical dry forests. Hence, understanding their responses to the changing climate is of high priori...

    Authors: Zenebe Girmay Siyum, J. O. Ayoade, M. A. Onilude and Motuma Tolera Feyissa

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:15

    Content type: Research

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  7. Soil temperature and moisture are sensitive indicators in soil organic matter decomposition because they control global carbon and water cycles and their potential feedback to climatic variations. Although the...

    Authors: Min Yan, Zengyuan Li, Xin Tian, Li Zhang and Yu Zhou

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:12

    Content type: Research

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  10. Tree species represent 20% of the vascular plant species worldwide and they play a crucial role in the global functioning of the biosphere. The Mediterranean Basin is one of the 36 world biodiversity hotspots,...

    Authors: Frédéric Médail, Anne-Christine Monnet, Daniel Pavon, Toni Nikolic, Panayotis Dimopoulos, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Juan Arroyo, Zoltán Barina, Marwan Cheikh Albassatneh, Gianniantonio Domina, Bruno Fady, Vlado Matevski, Stephen Mifsud and Agathe Leriche

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:17

    Content type: Research

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  11. Environmental change has resulted in changes in forest growth in Europe during the last century. This has consequences for the products and services delivered by forest. Mixing tree species is often proposed a...

    Authors: Astrid Vannoppen, Vincent Kint, Quentin Ponette, Kris Verheyen and Bart Muys

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:10

    Content type: Research

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  13. We investigated how the precision and costs of forest resource estimates for sample plots of different type and size depend on the spatial structure of forests and jointly studied the effects of tree density a...

    Authors: Henrike Häbel, Mikko Kuronen, Helena M. Henttonen, Annika Kangas and Mari Myllymäki

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:8

    Content type: Research

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  14. The effect of forest fire on soil is complex and relatively less understood than its above ground effect. Understanding the effect of fire on forest soils can allow improving management of valuable forest ecos...

    Authors: Satyam Verma, Dharmatma Singh, Ajeet Kumar Singh and Shanmuganathan Jayakumar

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:6

    Content type: Research

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  16. European forests are considered a crucial resource for supplying biomass to a growing bio-economy in Europe. This study aimed to assess the potential availability of forest biomass from European forests and it...

    Authors: Pieter Johannes Verkerk, Joanne Brighid Fitzgerald, Pawan Datta, Matthias Dees, Geerten Martijn Hengeveld, Marcus Lindner and Sergey Zudin

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:5

    Content type: Research

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  17. Winter moth (Operophtera brumata) and mottled umber moth (Erannis defoliaria) are forest Lepidoptera species characterized by periodic high abundance in a 7–11 year cycle. During outbreak years they cause severe ...

    Authors: Anika Hittenbeck, Ronald Bialozyt and Matthias Schmidt

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:4

    Content type: Research

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  18. The global decrease in wildlife populations, especially birds, is mainly due to land use change and increasing intensity of land use (Parmesan and Yohe 2003). However, impacts of management tools to mitigate biod...

    Authors: Ernst Detlef Schulze, Dylan Craven, Andrew M. Durso, Jiri Reif, Marcus Guderle, Franz Kroiher, Petra Hennig, Anne Weiserbs, Peter Schall, Christian Ammer and Nico Eisenhauer

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:3

    Content type: Research

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  20. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a large reservoir of terrestrial carbon (C); it consists of different fractions of varying complexity and stability. Partitioning SOC into different pools of decomposability help b...

    Authors: Xiaolu Sun, Zuoxin Tang, Michael G. Ryan, Yeming You and Osbert Jianxin Sun

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:1

    Content type: Research

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  21. Plants have been hypothesized to maintain strong control over xylem tension by closing stomata and to operate at a water potential above or near the critical potential at which cavitation commences. An alterna...

    Authors: Dayong Fan, Shouren Zhang, Hui Yan, Qian Wu, Xinwu Xu and Xiangping Wang

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:40

    Content type: Research

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  22. Accurate downed woody debris (DWD) volume or mass estimates are needed for numerous applications such as fuel loading, forest carbon, and biodiversity/habitat assessments. The line-intersect sampling (LIS) met...

    Authors: Shawn Fraver, Mark J. Ducey, Christopher W. Woodall, Anthony W. D’Amato, Amy M. Milo and Brian J. Palik

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:39

    Content type: Research

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  24. Coupling biomass models with nutrient concentrations can provide sound estimations of carbon and nutrient contents, enabling the improvement of carbon and nutrient balance in forest ecosystems. Although nutrie...

    Authors: Roque Rodríguez-Soalleiro, Cristina Eimil-Fraga, Esteban Gómez-García, Juan Daniel García-Villabrille, Alberto Rojo-Alboreca, Fernando Muñoz, Nerea Oliveira, Hortensia Sixto and César Pérez-Cruzado

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:35

    Content type: Research

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  25. Recent projections expect that Vietnam will be affected most severely by climate change with higher temperatures, more precipitation and rising sea levels. Especially increased temperatures will worsen the sit...

    Authors: Astrid Moser-Reischl, Enno Uhl, Thomas Rötzer, Peter Biber, Tran van Con, Nguyen Thanh Tan and Hans Pretzsch

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:37

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  27. Forest management decisions are based on expectations of future developments. For sound decisions it is essential to accurately predict the expected values in future developments and to account for their inher...

    Authors: Matthias Albert, Ralf-Volker Nagel, Johannes Sutmöller and Matthias Schmidt

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:33

    Content type: Research

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  28. The importance of structurally diverse forests for the conservation of biodiversity and provision of a wide range of ecosystem services has been widely recognised. However, tools to quantify structural diversi...

    Authors: Felix Storch, Carsten F. Dormann and Jürgen Bauhus

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:34

    Content type: Research

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  29. Rapid economic development in China has resulted in an increase in severe air pollution in city groups such as the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Metropolitan Region. PM2.5 (fine particles with an aerodynamic equivalent d...

    Authors: Junqi Ding, Xiaoxiu Lun, Weifang Ma, Lu Zhao, Yingying Cao, Fengbin Sun and Renna Li

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:36

    Content type: Research

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  30. Leaf Area Index (LAI) is an important parameter used in monitoring and modeling of forest ecosystems. The aim of this study was to evaluate performance of the artificial neural network (ANN) models to predict ...

    Authors: İlker Ercanlı, Alkan Günlü, Muammer Şenyurt and Sedat Keleş

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:29

    Content type: Research

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  31. In the context of ecosystem management, the present study aims to compare the natural and the present-day forested landscapes of a large territory in Quebec (Canada). Using contemporary and long-term fire cycl...

    Authors: Pierre Grondin, Sylvie Gauthier, Véronique Poirier, Patrice Tardif, Yan Boucher and Yves Bergeron

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:30

    Content type: Research

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  32. The distribution of forest vegetation within urban environments is critically important as it influences urban environmental conditions and the energy exchange through the absorption of solar radiation and mod...

    Authors: Giona Matasci, Nicholas C. Coops, David A. R. Williams and Nick Page

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:31

    Content type: Research

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  33. Over the last decades interest has grown on how climate change impacts forest resources. However, one of the main constraints is that meteorological stations are riddled with missing climatic data. This study ...

    Authors: Alonso Barrios, Guillermo Trincado and René Garreaud

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:28

    Content type: Research

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  34. Canada’s boreal forest represents an important contributor of the world’s wood supply industry. However, maintaining or increasing productivity of the boreal forest may be challenging in areas dominated by for...

    Authors: Benoit Lafleur, Nicole J. Fenton, Martin Simard, Alain Leduc, David Paré, Osvaldo Valeria and Yves Bergeron

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:27

    Content type: Review

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  35. Improved understanding of the processes shaping the assembly of tropical tree communities is crucial for gaining insights into the evolution of forest communities and biological diversity. The climate is thoug...

    Authors: K. Nagaraju Shivaprakash, B. R. Ramesh, Ramanan Umashaanker and Selvadurai Dayanandan

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:25

    Content type: Research

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  38. Treeline dynamics have inevitable impacts on the forest treeline structure and composition. The present research sought to estimate treeline movement and structural shifts in response to recent warming in Cehe...

    Authors: Maliheh Arekhi, Ahmet Yesil, Ulas Yunus Ozkan and Fusun Balik Sanli

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:23

    Content type: Research

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  39. Coarse woody debris (CWD) is very important for forest ecosystems, particularly for biodiversity and carbon storage. Its relevance as a possible reservoir and source of nutrients is less clear, especially in c...

    Authors: Steffen Herrmann and Jürgen Bauhus

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:22

    Content type: Research

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  40. Over the last decades, many forest simulators have been developed for the forests of individual European countries. The underlying growth models are usually based on national datasets of varying size, obtained...

    Authors: Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Geerten M Hengeveld, Nanny Heidema, Esther Thürig, Brigitte Rohner, Giorgio Vacchiano, Jordi Vayreda, John Redmond, Jarosław Socha, Jonas Fridman, Stein Tomter, Heino Polley, Susana Barreiro and Gert-Jan Nabuurs

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:21

    Content type: Research

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  41. Climate change triggered many studies showing that trends and events of environmental conditions can reduce but also accelerate growth at the stand and individual tree level. However, it is still rather unknow...

    Authors: Hans Pretzsch, Gerhard Schütze and Peter Biber

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:20

    Content type: Research

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  44. The main objective of this study was to examine the climatic sensitivity of the radial growth response of 13 eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) provenances planted at seven test sites throughout the northern p...

    Authors: Sophan Chhin, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr, William C. Parker and John Brissette

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:18

    Content type: Research

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  45. Volume and taper equations are essential for obtaining estimates of total and merchantable stem volume. Taper functions provide advantages to merchantable volume equations because they estimate diameter inside...

    Authors: Krishna P. Poudel, Hailemariam Temesgen and Andrew N. Gray

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:16

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  46. Forestry offers possibilities to sequestrate carbon in living biomass, deadwood and forest soil, as well as in products prepared of wood. In addition, the use of wood may reduce carbon emissions from fossil fu...

    Authors: Timo Pukkala

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:11

    Content type: Research

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  48. Forest health is currently assessed in Europe (ICP Forests monitoring program). Crown defoliation and dieback, tree mortality, and pathogenic damage are the main aspects considered in tree health assessment. T...

    Authors: Filippo Bussotti, Matteo Feducci, Giovanni Iacopetti, Filomena Maggino, Martina Pollastrini and Federico Selvi

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:12

    Content type: Research

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  49. Australia’s energy future is at the crossroads and the role of renewable sources is in focus. Biomass from sustainably managed forests provide a significant opportunity for electricity and heat generation and ...

    Authors: Michael R. Ngugi, Victor J. Neldner, Sean Ryan, Tom Lewis, Jiaorong Li, Phillip Norman and Michelle Mogilski

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:6

    Content type: Research

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  50. There are many satellite systems acquiring environmental data on the world. Acquired global remote sensing datasets require ground reference data in order to calibrate them and assess their quality. Regarding ...

    Authors: Krzysztof Stereńczak, Marek Lisańczuk and Yousef Erfanifard

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2018 5:1

    Content type: Research

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