International Forestry Forum “Forest Ecosystems as Global Resource of the Biosphere: Calls, Threats, Solutions” (Forestry-2020) is our annual conference organized by Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G. F. Morozov (Russia) in October, 23, 2020, Voronezh, Russia. The event was supported by Belarusian State Technical University (Belarus), Czech Academy of Agrarian Sciences (Czech Republic), Zvolen Technical University (Slovakia), Madrid Polytechnic University (Spain), Belgrade University (Serbia), and Research Institute of Forest Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology (Russia), and the Federal Forestry Agency of the Russian Federation (Russia).

Forestry-2020 is an important event in the calendar for practitioners, academicians and young scientists across Russia, Viet Nam, Slovakia, Latvia, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Greece, France, Poland, Romania, Spain, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Mexico, Moldova, Serbia, Sweden, and the Republic of Belarus. The Conference allows researchers to present their research in forestry and to develop the collaboration between institutions in forest science, management and industry.

The participants of the Conference presents papers covering (1) Forestry, forest management and multi-purpose use of forests; (2) Genetics, selection, seed production, reproduction and biotechnology in forestry; (3) Biodiversity of forest ecosystems, protection and defense of forests; (4) Forest park and landscape architecture; (5) Economics and management in the forestry complex; (6) Historical and social aspects of nature management; (7) Forest industry and mechanization of the forest complex; and (8) Innovations in the forestry complex.

The Organizing Committee is highly grateful for the contribution of the Participants, Institutions and Sponsors supporting the event. All the manuscripts included to the Proceedings went through intensive reviews by experts in various scientific areas from China, Italy, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, India, Finland, Mexico, USA, Canada, Hungary, Lithuania, Ukraine, Iraq, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Iran, Czech Republic, Portugal, Germany, Croatia, Colombia, Colombia, and Bulgaria.

The Editors expresses profound gratitude to all the reviewers, whose enthusiasm amplified the high quality of the papers.

The conference was supported by the Federal Forestry Agency (Russia).

Web page of the Forestry-2020: https://vgltu-conference.wixsite.com/forestry2020

Organizing Committee:

Dr. Svetlana Morkovina,

Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov, Russia

Editors of the Special Issue Forestry-2020:

Prof. Antonio Garca-Abril, Universidad Politcnica de Madrid, Spain

Dr. Anna Godymchuk, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia

Dr. Natalia Karakchieva, National Research Tomsk State University, Russia