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  1. Herbs are an important part of the forest ecosystem, and their diversity and biomass can reflect the restoration of vegetation after forest thinning disturbances. Based on the near-mature secondary coniferous ...

    Authors: Gerong Wang, Yue Sun, Mo Zhou, Naiqian Guan, Yuwen Wang, Runhua Jiang, Zhiyu Liu, Mengjia Wu and Fucai Xia

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:53

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  2. Biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) play an essential role in tropospheric atmospheric chemical reactions. There are few studies conducted on BVOCs emission of dominant forest species in the Jing-Jin-J...

    Authors: Ying Lin, Xiaoxiu Lun, Wei Tang, Zhongzhi Zhang, Xiaoxi Jing, Chong Fan and Qiang Wang

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:52

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  3. Forest management affects the habitat conditions for many forest-dwelling species. Among them, the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) is a rare forest grouse inhabiting old, mature forests. We compared the structure...

    Authors: Stanisław Drozdowski, Dorota Zawadzka, Grzegorz Zawadzki, Marcin Studnicki and Bogdan Brzeziecki

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:51

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  4. Tree mortality and regeneration (seedling and sapling recruitment) are essential components of forest dynamics in arid regions, especially where subjected to serious eco-hydrological problems. In recent decade...

    Authors: Ayjamal Keram, Ümüt Halik, Tayierjiang Aishan, Maierdang Keyimu, Kadeliya Jiapaer and Guolei Li

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:49

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  6. Organic carbon stored in forest soils (SOC) represents an important element of the global C cycle. It is thought that the C storage capacity of the stable pool can be enhanced by increasing forest productivity...

    Authors: Marco Diers, Robert Weigel, Heike Culmsee and Christoph Leuschner

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:47

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  7. Forest management planning involves deciding which silvicultural treatment should be applied to each stand and at what time to best meet the objectives established for the forest. For this, many mathematical f...

    Authors: José M. González-González, Miguel E. Vázquez-Méndez and Ulises Diéguez-Aranda

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:48

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  8. Fragmentation and deforestation are one of the greatest threats to forests, and these processes are of even more concern in the tropics, where the seasonal dry forest is possibly one of the most threatened eco...

    Authors: Carlos A. Rivas, José Guerrero-Casado and Rafael M. Navarro-Cerillo

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:46

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  9. As a structurally and functionally important component in forest ecosystems, plant debris plays a crucial role in the global carbon cycle. Although it is well known that plant debris stocks vary greatly with t...

    Authors: Zhihui Wang, Lianjun Zhao, Yi Bai, Fei Li, Jianfeng Hou, Xuqing Li, Yurui Jiang, Yuyue Deng, Bingqian Zheng and Wanqin Yang

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:40

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  10. Assessment of the reasons for the ambiguous influence of forests on the structure of the water balance is the subject of heated debate among forest hydrologists. Influencing the components of total evaporation...

    Authors: A. Onuchin, Т. Burenina, А. Shvidenko, D. Prysov and A. Musokhranova

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:45

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  11. There are many studies on disentangling the responses of autotrophic (AR) and heterotrophic (HR) respiration components of soil respiration (SR) to long-term drought, but few studies have focused on the mechan...

    Authors: Jinglei Zhang, Shirong Liu, Cuiju Liu, Hui Wang, Junwei Luan, Xiaojing Liu, Xinwei Guo and Baoliang Niu

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:41

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  12. Pine wilt disease (PWD) is a major ecological concern in China that has caused severe damage to millions of Chinese pines (Pinus tabulaeformis). To control the spread of PWD, it is necessary to develop an effecti...

    Authors: Run Yu, Lili Ren and Youqing Luo

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:44

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  14. A challenge in current forestry is adaptation of managed forests to climate change, which is likely to alter the main processes of forest dynamics, i.e. natural regeneration. Scots pine will probably lose some...

    Authors: Dobrowolska Dorota, Kurek Przemysław, Olszowska Grażyna and Leszek Bolibok

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:43

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  15. Replacing non-renewable materials and energy with wood offers a potential strategy to mitigate climate change if the net emissions of ecosystem and technosystem are reduced in a considered time period. Displac...

    Authors: Tanja Myllyviita, Sampo Soimakallio, Jáchym Judl and Jyri Seppälä

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:42

    Content type: Review

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  16. Inputs of above- and belowground litter into forest soils are changing at an unprecedented rate due to continuing human disturbances and climate change. Microorganisms drive the soil carbon (C) cycle, but the ...

    Authors: Yanli Jing, Peng Tian, Qingkui Wang, Weibin Li, Zhaolin Sun and Hong Yang

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:38

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  17. Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) deposition have largely affected soil respiration (Rs) in forest ecosystems. However, few studies have explored how N and P individually or in combination to influence Rs and its c...

    Authors: Junjun Zhang, Yong Li, Jinsong Wang, Weinan Chen, Dashuan Tian and Shuli Niu

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:37

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  18. In 2019, 100 years had elapsed since the first National Forest Inventory (NFI) was established in Norway. Motivated by a fear of over-exploitation of timber resources, NFIs today enable informed policy making ...

    Authors: Johannes Breidenbach, Ronald E. McRoberts, Iciar Alberdi, Clara Antón-Fernández and Erkki Tomppo

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:36

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  19. Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky), commonly known as Asian longhorned beetle (ALB), is a wood-boring insect that can cause lethal infestation to multiple borer leaf trees. In Gansu Province, northwest China,...

    Authors: Quan Zhou, Xudong Zhang, Linfeng Yu, Lili Ren and Youqing Luo

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:35

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  22. As one of the main components of land-use change, deforestation is considered the greatest threat to global environmental diversity with possible irreversible environmental consequences. Specifically, one exam...

    Authors: Shamsollah Ayoubi, Nafiseh Sadeghi, Farideh Abbaszadeh Afshar, Mohammad Reza Abdi, Mojtaba Zeraatpisheh and Jesus Rodrigo-Comino

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:32

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  23. Vegetation phenology research has largely focused on temperate deciduous forests, thus limiting our understanding of the response of evergreen vegetation to climate change in tropical and subtropical regions.

    Authors: Peixin Ren, Zelin Liu, Xiaolu Zhou, Changhui Peng, Jingfeng Xiao, Songhan Wang, Xing Li and Peng Li

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:31

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  24. Climate extremes are likely to become more common in the future and are expected to change ecosystem processes and functions. As important consumers of seeds in forests, rodents are likely to affect forest reg...

    Authors: Qingqiu Zhou, Debao Li, Shangwen Xia, Zhe Chen, Bo Wang and Jianping Wu

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:30

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  26. Black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP)-forested peatlands are widespread ecosystems in boreal North America in which peat accumulation, known as the paludification process, has been shown to induce forest growt...

    Authors: Joannie Beaulne, Étienne Boucher, Michelle Garneau and Gabriel Magnan

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:28

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  27. Tree-related microhabitats (hereafter, “TreMs”) are key components of forest biodiversity but they are still poorly known in North American hardwood forests. The spatial patterns of living trees bearing TreMs ...

    Authors: Maxence Martin, Patricia Raymond and Yan Boucher

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:27

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  28. Species-specific genotypic features, local neighbourhood interactions and resource supply strongly influence the tree stature and growth rate. In mixed-species forests, diversity-mediated biomass allocation ha...

    Authors: Louis Georgi, Matthias Kunz, Andreas Fichtner, Karl Friedrich Reich, Anne Bienert, Hans-Gerd Maas and Goddert von Oheimb

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:26

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  29. Equatorward, rear-edge tree populations are natural monitors to estimate species vulnerability to climate change. According to biogeographical theory, exposition to drought events increases with increasing ari...

    Authors: J. Julio Camarero, Antonio Gazol, Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda, Marta Vergarechea, Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez, Nicolás Cattaneo and Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:25

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  30. The terminal branch orders of plant root systems are increasingly known as an ephemeral module. This concept is crucial to recognize belowground processes. However, it is unknown if root modules still exist af...

    Authors: Jihong Li, Chengming You, Li Zhang, Han Li, Bo Tan, Yang Liu, Lixia Wang, Sining Liu and Zhenfeng Xu

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:23

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  31. Determining the spatial distribution of tree heights at the regional area scale is significant when performing forest above-ground biomass estimates in forest resource management research. The geometric-optica...

    Authors: Congrong Li, Jinling Song and Jindi Wang

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:24

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  32. Soil fungi play crucial roles in ecosystem functions. However, how snow cover change associated with winter warming affects soil fungal communities remains unclear in the Tibetan forest.

    Authors: Li Zhang, Yuzhi Ren, Kaijun Yang, Zhijie Li, Bo Tan, Yang Liu, Han Li, Chengming You, Sining Liu, Lixia Wang, Rui Yin, Jian Zhang and Zhenfeng Xu

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:22

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  33. The prediction of biogeographical patterns from a large number of driving factors with complex interactions, correlations and non-linear dependences require advanced analytical methods and modeling tools. This...

    Authors: Albert Morera, Juan Martínez de Aragón, José Antonio Bonet, Jingjing Liang and Sergio de-Miguel

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:21

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  34. Snags (standing dead trees) are important biological legacies in forest systems, providing numerous resources as well as a record of recent tree mortality. From 1997 to 2017, we monitored snag populations in d...

    Authors: Joseph L. Ganey, Jose M. Iniguez, Scott C. Vojta and Amy R. Iniguez

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:20

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  35. Robinia pseudoacacia is a widely planted pioneer tree species in reforestations on barren mountains in northern China. Because of its nitrogen-fixing ability, it can play a positive role in soil and forest restor...

    Authors: Kun Li, Xu Han, Ruiqiang Ni, Ge Shi, Sergio de-Miguel, Chuanrong Li, Weixing Shen, Yikun Zhang and Xingzhong Zhang

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:19

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  36. Wildfires are one of the major environmental concerns in Mediterranean ecosystems. Thus, many studies have addressed wildfire impacts on soil and vegetation in Mediterranean forests, but the linkages between t...

    Authors: Víctor Fernández-García, Elena Marcos, Sara Huerta and Leonor Calvo

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:18

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  37. There is an urgent need for quantifying the terrestrial carbon sink in the context of global carbon emissions. However, neither the flux measurements, nor the national wood balances fulfil this purpose. In thi...

    Authors: E. D. Schulze, R. Valentini and O. Bouriaud

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:15

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  39. Anthropogenic disturbances are increasingly affecting the vitality of tropical dry forests. The future condition of this important biome will depend on its capability to resist and recover from these disturban...

    Authors: Hadgu Hishe, Louis Oosterlynck, Kidane Giday, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Ben Somers and Bart Muys

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:16

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  40. The NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) satellite mission aims at scanning forest ecosystems on a multi-temporal short-rotation basis. The GEDI data can validate and update statistics from na...

    Authors: Juan Guerra-Hernández and Adrián Pascual

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:14

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  41. Nutrient cycling in tropical forests has a large importance for primary productivity, and decomposition of litterfall is a major process influencing nutrient balance in forest soils. Although large-scale facto...

    Authors: Pedro Henrique de Godoy Fernandes, Andréa Lúcia Teixeira de Souza, Marcel Okamoto Tanaka and Renata Sebastiani

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:13

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  42. National forest inventory and forest monitoring systems are more important than ever considering continued global degradation of trees and forests. These systems are especially important in a country like Bang...

    Authors: Matieu Henry, Zaheer Iqbal, Kristofer Johnson, Mariam Akhter, Liam Costello, Charles Scott, Rashed Jalal, Md. Akhter Hossain, Nikhil Chakma, Olaf Kuegler, Hossain Mahmood, Rajib Mahamud, Mohammad Raqibul Hasan Siddique, Khaled Misbahuzzaman, Mohammad Main Uddin, Mohammed Al Amin…

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:12

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  43. The relationship between physiological age of parental trees and lifespan of clonal offspring is unclear. White oak (Quercus fabri Hance) has a high sprouting capability after harvest, with the regenerated sprout...

    Authors: Honggang Sun, Sisheng Wu and Liwen Wu

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:11

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  44. Current automated forest investigation is facing a dilemma over how to achieve high tree- and plot-level completeness while maintaining a high cost and labor efficiency. This study tackles the challenge by exp...

    Authors: Yunsheng Wang, Antero Kukko, Eric Hyyppä, Teemu Hakala, Jiri Pyörälä, Matti Lehtomäki, Aimad El Issaoui, Xiaowei Yu, Harri Kaartinen, Xinlian Liang and Juha Hyyppä

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:10

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  45. Multi-purpose use of forests in a sustainable way forces a recognition of how introduction of alien woody species in forests with different land use histories affect native plants other than trees. Lingonberry Va...

    Authors: Beata Woziwoda, Marcin K. Dyderski and Andrzej M. Jagodziński

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:9

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  46. It is still not clear whether the effects of N deposition on soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are influenced by plantation management schemes. A field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of ...

    Authors: Junbo Zhang, Quan Li, Jianhua Lv, Changhui Peng, Zhikang Gu, Lianghua Qi, Xuzhong Song and Xinzhang Song

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:6

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  47. Studies on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem productivity have suggested that species richness and functional diversity are the main drivers of ecosystem processes. Several patterns on this r...

    Authors: Benedicto Vargas-Larreta, Jorge Omar López-Martínez, Edgar J. González, José Javier Corral-Rivas and Francisco Javier Hernández

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:8

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  48. Mature oak (Quercus spp.) and hickory (Carya spp.) trees are gradually being replaced by more shade-tolerant tree species across the eastern U.S., likely due to fire suppression and increased precipitation. Oaks ...

    Authors: Don C. Radcliffe, David M. Hix and Stephen N. Matthews

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:7

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  49. Forests perform various important ecosystem functions that contribute to ecosystem services. In many parts of the world, forest management has shifted from a focus on timber production to multi-purpose forestr...

    Authors: Nadja K. Simons, María R. Felipe-Lucia, Peter Schall, Christian Ammer, Jürgen Bauhus, Nico Blüthgen, Steffen Boch, François Buscot, Markus Fischer, Kezia Goldmann, Martin M. Gossner, Falk Hänsel, Kirsten Jung, Peter Manning, Thomas Nauss, Yvonne Oelmann…

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:5

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  50. Increasing the use of forest harvest residues for bioenergy production reduces greenhouse emissions from the use of fossil fuels. However, it may also reduce carbon stocks and habitats for deadwood dependent s...

    Authors: Anu Akujärvi, Anna Repo, Altti M. Akujärvi and Jari Liski

    Citation: Forest Ecosystems 2021 8:4

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