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  1. A novel approach to modelling individual tree growth dynamics is proposed. The approach combines multiple imputation and copula sampling to produce a stochastic individual tree growth and yield projection system.

    Authors: John A. Kershaw Jr, Aaron R. Weiskittel, Michael B. Lavigne and Elizabeth McGarrigle

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:15

    Content type: Research

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  2. In India, rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations cover ~0.8 million ha of land, emphasizing its significant role in the Earth’s carbon dynamics. Therefore, it is important to estimate the biomass stocks of plant...

    Authors: Biplab Brahma, Gudeta W. Sileshi, Arun Jyoti Nath and Ashesh Kumar Das

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:14

    Content type: Research

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  4. After their death, Scots pine trees can remain standing for decades and sometimes up to 200 years, forming long-lasting and ecologically important structures in boreal forest landscapes. Standing dead pines de...

    Authors: Timo Kuuluvainen, Tuomas Aakala and Gergely Várkonyi

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:12

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  5. With farmland afforestation becoming common policy in many European Union countries, we studied how early forest succession (from meadow to young stand) influences small mammal species composition, diversity, ...

    Authors: Linas Balčiauskas, Aušra Čepukienė and Laima Balčiauskienė

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:11

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  7. In the German Democratic Republic (GDR), resin tapping in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests was a major economic activity, and resin-tapped stands are frequently found up until this day. In this study, we ...

    Authors: Ernst van der Maaten, Annemarie Mehl, Martin Wilmking and Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:7

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  9. One of the most important drivers of forest biodiversity is conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD), a reduction in performance when conspecific densities are high. While the majority of CNDD research h...

    Authors: Benjamin S. Ramage and Isabel J. Mangana

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:8

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  10. Understory plants represents the largest component of biodiversity in most forest ecosystems and plays a key role in forest functioning. Despite their importance, the influence of overstory-layer composition o...

    Authors: Luciana Mestre, Mónica Toro-Manríquez, Rosina Soler, Alejandro Huertas-Herrera, Guillermo Martínez-Pastur and María Vanessa Lencinas

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:6

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  11. Tropical forests play an important role in the global carbon (C) cycle. However, tropical montane forests have been studied less than tropical lowland forests, and their role in carbon storage is not well unde...

    Authors: Sebastian Paulick, Claudia Dislich, Jürgen Homeier, Rico Fischer and Andreas Huth

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:5

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  15. Forest management strategies such as thinning have long been used to enhance ecosystem functions, especially in plantations. Thinning in plantations with high deer density, however, may not yield a desired inc...

    Authors: Atsushi Tamura and Masanobu Yamane

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:1

    Content type: Research

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  16. Currently, the common and feasible way to estimate the most accurate forest biomass requires ground measurements and allometric models. Previous studies have been conducted on allometric equations development ...

    Authors: Solichin Manuri, Cris Brack, Fatmi Noor’an, Teddy Rusolono, Shema Mukti Anggraini, Helmut Dotzauer and Indra Kumara

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:28

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  18. Growth and yield models are important tools for forest planning. Due to its geographic location, topology, and history of management, the forests of the Adirondacks Region of New York are unique and complex. H...

    Authors: Aaron Weiskittel, Christian Kuehne, John Paul McTague and Mike Oppenheimer

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:26

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Forest Ecosystems 2019 6:24

  19. Information on forest structure, growth, and disturbance history is essential for effective forest management in a dynamic landscape. Because most of our research concerning the ecology and growth of Thuja occide...

    Authors: Joshua A. Kincaid

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:25

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  20. We compare the climate sensitivity of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in two forest nature reserves in northeastern Germany. The one reserve, Schlossberg, is characterized by shallow chalk soils, whereas in t...

    Authors: Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Hanna Bümmerstede, Janette Iwanowski, Tobias Scharnweber, Martin Wilmking and Ernst van der Maaten

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:24

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  21. Tropical dry forests cover less than 13 % of the world’s tropical forests and their area and biodiversity are declining. In southern Africa, the major threat is increasing population pressure, while drought ca...

    Authors: Vera De Cauwer, Coert J. Geldenhuys, Raf Aerts, Miya Kabajani and Bart Muys

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:23

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  22. Climate change is likely to cause significant modifications in forests. Rising to this challenge may require adaptation of forest management, and therefore should trigger proactive measures by forest managers,...

    Authors: Rita Sousa-Silva, Quentin Ponette, Kris Verheyen, Ann Van Herzele and Bart Muys

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:22

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:27

  23. Replacement of fossil fuel based energy with biochar-based bioenergy production can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while mitigating the adverse impacts of climate change and global warming. However, the ...

    Authors: Krish Homagain, Chander Shahi, Nancy Luckai and Mahadev Sharma

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:21

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  24. The quantitative impact of forest management on forests’ wood resource was evaluated for Picea and Fagus mixed forests. The effects on the productivity of tendering operations, thinnings and rotation length ha...

    Authors: Olivier Bouriaud, Gheorghe Marin, Laura Bouriaud, Dominik Hessenmöller and Ernst-Detlef Schulze

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:20

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  25. In mid hills of Western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh India, growth, yield and economics of Solanum khasianum as a potential medicinal herb under Pinus roxburghii (Chir pine) plantation has been studied for two con...

    Authors: Chandra Shekher Sanwal, Raj Kumar, Raheel Anwar, Vijaysinha Kakade, Sushma Kerketta and S. D. Bhardwaj

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:19

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  27. Attention has recently been drawn to the issue of transboundary invasions, where species introduced and naturalized in one country cross international borders and become problematic in neighbouring countries. ...

    Authors: João Martins, David M. Richardson, Renato Henriques, Elizabete Marchante, Hélia Marchante, Paulo Alves, Mirijam Gaertner, João P. Honrado and Joana R. Vicente

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:17

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  28. Seed production, seed dispersal and seedling establishment are relevant life phases of plants. Understanding these processes and their patterns is essential to recognize vegetation dynamics and to apply it to ...

    Authors: Abrham Abiyu, Demel Teketay, Gerhard Glatzel and Georg Gratzer

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:16

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  29. This contribution evaluates the effect of forest structure and tree species diversity on plot productivity and individual tree growth in the unique Knysna forests in Southern Africa using mapped tree data from...

    Authors: Klaus v. Gadow, GongQiao Zhang, Graham Durrheim, David Drew and Armin Seydack

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:15

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  32. In recent decades, native Araucaria forests in Brazil have become fragmented due to the conversion of forest to agricultural lands and commercial tree plantations. Consequently, the forest dynamics in this forest...

    Authors: Enrique Orellana, Afonso Figueiredo Filho, Sylvio Péllico Netto and Jerome Klaas Vanclay

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:12

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  36. An examination of the distribution of ancient charcoal kiln sites in the forest landscape seems to be worthwhile, since general trends in the selection of suitable kiln site locations in the past might become ...

    Authors: Marcus Schmidt, Andreas Mölder, Egbert Schönfelder, Falko Engel and Werner Fortmann-Valtink

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:8

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  38. Wood density is considered to be the most important predictor of wood quality but despite its importance, diffuse-porous tree species have been the subject of only a limited number of studies. The importance o...

    Authors: Daniela Diaconu, Marc Wassenberg and Heinrich Spiecker

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:6

    Content type: Research

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:7

  39. This paper focuses on the use of models for increasing the precision of estimators in large-area forest surveys. It is motivated by the increasing availability of remotely sensed data, which facilitates the de...

    Authors: Göran Ståhl, Svetlana Saarela, Sebastian Schnell, Sören Holm, Johannes Breidenbach, Sean P. Healey, Paul L. Patterson, Steen Magnussen, Erik Næsset, Ronald E. McRoberts and Timothy G. Gregoire

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:5

    Content type: Discussion

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  40. The global search for new ways to sequester carbon has already reached agricultural lands. Such land constitutes a major potential carbon sink. The production of high value timber within agroforestry systems c...

    Authors: Christopher Morhart, Jonathan P. Sheppard, Johanna K. Schuler and Heinrich Spiecker

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:4

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  41. Restoring degraded forests and agricultural lands has become a global conservation priority. A growing number of tools can quantify ecosystem service tradeoffs associated with forest restoration. This evolving...

    Authors: Zachary L. Christin, Kenneth J. Bagstad and Michael A. Verdone

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:3

    Content type: Discussion

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  43. Tree species recognition is the main bottleneck in remote sensing based inventories aiming to produce an input for species-specific growth and yield models. We hypothesized that a stratification of the target ...

    Authors: Janne Räty, Jari Vauhkonen, Matti Maltamo and Timo Tokola

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:1

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  45. The role of wild foods in combating problems of food shortage is paramount. However, existing approaches to combat food insecurity shock have generally focused on reducing vulnerability via increasing producti...

    Authors: Daie Ferede Guyu and Wolde-Tsadik Muluneh

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2015 2:34

    Content type: Research

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  47. In economically optimal management, trees that are removed in a thinning treatment should be selected on the basis of their value, relative value increment and the effect of removal on the growth of remaining ...

    Authors: Timo Pukkala, Erkki Lähde and Olavi Laiho

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2015 2:32

    Content type: Research

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  48. We explore the factors affecting the optimal plot design (size and type as well as the subsample tree selection strategies within a plot) and their relative importance in defining the optimal plot design in am...

    Authors: Helena M. Henttonen and Annika Kangas

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2015 2:31

    Content type: Research

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  49. Around 2000 plant species occur naturally in Lorestan Province of which 250 species are medicinal and myrtle is one of them. Myrtle is a shrub whose leaves and fruits have medicinal value and thus, if managed ...

    Authors: Neda Amiri, Seyed F. Emadian, Asghar Fallah, Kamran Adeli and Hamid Amirnejad

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2015 2:30

    Content type: Research

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