Research
The first three censuses of the 50-ha plot at Barro Colorado Island spanned an unusually harsh dry season during the 1983 El Niño. By the early 1990s, we had documented increases in tree mortality, tree growth...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:17
Published on: 20 September 2017
Research
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.
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:15
Published on: 14 September 2017
Research
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...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:14
Published on: 24 August 2017
Review
The fragile landscapes of the Himalayan region are highly susceptible to natural hazards, and there is ongoing concern about current and potential climate change impacts. This study provides background informa...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:13
Published on: 10 August 2017
Research
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...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:12
Published on: 18 July 2017
Research
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, ...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:11
Published on: 12 July 2017
Research
The floodplain forests of Araguaia River, a clear-water river in the southeastern Amazon (Tocantins State, Brazil), are characterized by seasonal flooding up to 3.5 m height, low nutrient levels in the water, ...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:10
Published on: 3 July 2017
Research
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 ...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:7
Published on: 9 June 2017
Research
Within the highly bio-diverse ‘Northern Vietnam Lowland Rain Forests Ecoregion’ only small, and mostly highly modified forestlands persist within vast exotic-species plantations. The aim of this study was to e...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:9
Published on: 5 June 2017
Research
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...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:8
Published on: 3 June 2017
Research
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...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:6
Published on: 17 May 2017
Research
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...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:5
Published on: 11 May 2017
Research
Capturing the response of forest ecosystems to inter-annual climate variability is a great challenge. In this study, we tested the capability of an individual-based forest gap model to display carbon fluxes at...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:4
Published on: 27 April 2017
Research
Forest fertilization offers a means to increase the production of renewable resources. Nitrogen is the most common fertilizer in boreal upland forests. There is plenty of research on the effect of nitrogen fer...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:3
Published on: 21 March 2017
Review
The sustainable use of renewable resources has become an important issue worldwide in the move towards a less fossil-fuel-intensive future. Mainstream method for fulfilling this aim is to increase the share of...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:2
Published on: 23 February 2017
Research
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...
Forest Ecosystems 2017 4:1
Published on: 3 January 2017
Research
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 ...
Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:28
Published on: 14 December 2016
Erratum
Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:27
Published on: 12 December 2016
The original article was published in Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:22
Research
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...
Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:26
Published on: 26 November 2016
Research
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...
Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:25
Published on: 11 November 2016
Research
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...
Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:24
Published on: 16 September 2016
Research
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...
Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:23
Published on: 16 September 2016
Research
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,...
Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:22
Published on: 16 September 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:27
Research
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 ...
Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:21
Published on: 14 September 2016
Research
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...
Forest Ecosystems 2016 3:20
Published on: 2 September 2016
