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Enhancing wood efficiency through comprehensive wood flow analysis: Methodology and strategic insights For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ruisheng Wang, Peer Haller
Wood, an essential natural resource in human civilization, remains widely used despite advances in technology and material substitution. The surge in greenhouse gas emissions and environmental concerns accentuates the need for optimizing wood utilization. Material flow analysis is a powerful tool for tracking material flows and stocks, aiding resource management and environmental decision-making. However
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Evaluating soil acidification risk and its effects on biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in the drylands of China For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Lan Du, Shengchuan Tian, Nan Zhao, Bin Zhang, Xiaohan Mu, Lisong Tang, Xinjun Zheng, Yan Li
Soil acidification caused by anthropogenic activities may affect soil biochemical cycling, biodiversity, productivity, and multiple ecosystem-related functions in drylands. However, to date, such information is lacking to support this hypothesis. Based on a transect survey of 78 naturally assembled shrub communities, we calculated acid deposition flux in Northwest China and evaluated its likely ecological
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Early response of understory vegetation to the mass dieback of Norway spruce in the European lowland temperate forest For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Jan Marek Matuszkiewicz, Andrzej N. Affek, Piotr Zaniewski, Ewa Kołaczkowska
Spruce-dominated forests are commonly exposed to disturbances associated with mass occurrences of bark beetles. The dieback of trees triggers many physical and chemical processes in the ecosystem resulting in rapid changes in the vegetation of the lower forest layers. We aimed to determine the response of non-tree understory vegetation to the mass dieback of Norway spruce () in the first years after
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Competitive effect, but not competitive response, varies along a climatic gradient depending on tree species identity For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Teresa Valor, Lluís Coll, David I. Forrester, Hans Pretzsch, Miren del Río, Kamil Bielak, Bogdan Brzeziecki, Franz Binder, Torben Hilmers, Zuzana Sitková, Roberto Tognetti, Aitor Ameztegui
Understanding the role of species identity in interactions among individuals is crucial for assessing the productivity and stability of mixed forests over time. However, there is limited knowledge concerning the variation in competitive effect and response of different species along climatic gradients. In this study, we investigated the importance of climate, tree size, and competition on the growth
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Book review “Wattles: Australian Acacia species around the world” by David M. Richardson, Johannes J. Le Roux and Elizabete Marchante For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Klaus von Gadow
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Drought events influence nutrient canopy exchanges and green leaf partitioning during senescence in a deciduous forest For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 J. Touche, C. Calvaruso, P. De Donato, M.-P. Turpault
The increase in the frequency and intensity of drought events expected in the coming decades in Western Europe may disturb forest biogeochemical cycles and create nutrient deficiencies in trees. One possible origin of nutrient deficiency is the disturbance of the partitioning of the green leaf pool during the leaf senescence period between resorption, foliar leaching and senesced leaves. However, the
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Subtropical forest macro-decomposers rapidly transfer litter carbon and nitrogen into soil mineral-associated organic matter For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Guoxiang Niu, Tao Liu, Zhen Zhao, Xuebing Zhang, Huiling Guan, Xiaoxiang He, Xiankai Lu
Forest soils in tropical and subtropical areas store a significant amount of carbon. Recent frameworks to assess soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics under evolving global conditions suggest that dividing bulk SOM into particulate and mineral-associated organic matter (POM vs. MAOM) is a promising method for identifying how SOM contributes to reducing global warming. Soil macrofauna, earthworms, and
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Deadwood position matters: Diversity and biomass of saproxylic beetles in a temperate beech forest For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Václav Zumr, Oto Nakládal, Josef Gallo, Jiří Remeš
Deadwood plays a key role for biodiversity in forests. A significant number of beetles from this group are currently listed as endangered in the Red List. In addition to other management recommendations, there have been recent efforts to enrich stands with dead wood to promote biodiversity. An important parameter for forestry enterprises is the optimization of these interventions. The study investigated
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Reconstructing historical forest fire risk in the non-satellite era using the improved forest fire danger index and long short-term memory deep learning-a case study in Sichuan Province, southwestern China For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Yuwen Peng, Huiyi Su, Min Sun, Mingshi Li
Historical forest fire risk databases are vital for evaluating the effectiveness of past forest management approaches, enhancing forest fire warnings and emergency response capabilities, and accurately budgeting potential carbon emissions resulting from fires. However, due to the unavailability of spatial information technology, such databases are extremely difficult to build reliably and completely
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How topography and neighbor shape the fate of trees in subtropical forest restoration: Environmental filtering and resource competition drive natural regeneration For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Haonan Zhang, Xingshuo Zhang, Yingying Lv, Yanyan Ni, Baokun Xu, Xiangnan Han, Xiao Cao, Qingpei Yang, Wanggu Xu, Zhedong Qian
The structure of plant communities at local scales depends on both the spatial heterogeneity of abiotic environmental factors and the biotic interactions within the community. However, although environmental filtering due to microtopographic heterogeneity and resource competition among plants caused by spatial variation in tree density and size are considered to be very important in explaining the
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What diameter? What height? Influence of measures of average tree size on area-based allometric volume relationships For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Yilin Wang, John A. Kershaw, Mark J. Ducey, Yuan Sun, James B. McCarter
Volume is an important attribute used in many forest management decisions. Data from 83 fixed-area plots located in central New Brunswick, Canada, are used to examine how different measures of stand-level diameter and height influence volume prediction using a stand-level variant of Honer’s (1967) volume equation. When density was included in the models (Volume=f(Diameter,Height,Density)) choice of
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Encroachment drives facilitation at alpine shrublines For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Yafeng Wang, Eryuan Liang, J. Julio Camarero
Ongoing encroachment is driving recent alpine shrubline dynamics globally, but the role of shrub-shrub interactions in shaping shrublines and their relationships with stem density changes remain poorly understood. Here, the size and age of shrubs from 26 Salix shrubline populations along a 900-km latitudinal gradient (30°–38° N) were measured and mapped across the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Point pattern
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The storage and utilization of carbohydrates in response to elevation mediated by tree organs in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Bin Xu, Xueli Jiang, Yingying Zong, G. Geoff Wang, Fusheng Chen, Zhenyu Zhao, Xiangmin Fang
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The interaction between temperature and precipitation on the potential distribution range of Betula ermanii in the alpine treeline ecotone on the Changbai Mountain For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Yu Cong, Yongfeng Gu, Wen J. Wang, Lei Wang, Zhenshan Xue, Yingyi Chen, Yinghua Jin, Jiawei Xu, Mai-He Li, Hong S. He, Ming Jiang
Alpine treeline ecotones are highly sensitive to climate warming. The low temperature-determined alpine treeline is expected to shift upwards in response to global warming. However, little is known about how temperature interacts with other important factors to influence the distribution range of tree species within and beyond the alpine treeline ecotone. Hence, we used a GF-2 satellite image, along
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Aboveground carbon sequestration of Cunninghamia lanceolata forests: Magnitude and drivers For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Chen Wang, Shuguang Liu, Yu Zhu, Andrew R. Smith, Ying Ning, Deming Deng
Understanding the spatial variation, temporal changes, and their underlying driving forces of carbon sequestration in various forests is of great importance for understanding the carbon cycle and carbon management options. How carbon density and sequestration in various Cunninghamia lanceolata forests, extensively cultivated for timber production in subtropical China, vary with biodiversity, forest
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Why ecosystem characteristics predicted from remotely sensed data are unbiased and biased at the same time – and how this affects applications For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Göran Ståhl, Terje Gobakken, Svetlana Saarela, Henrik J. Persson, Magnus Ekström, Sean P. Healey, Zhiqiang Yang, Johan Holmgren, Eva Lindberg, Kenneth Nyström, Emanuele Papucci, Patrik Ulvdal, Hans Ole Ørka, Erik Næsset, Zhengyang Hou, Håkan Olsson, Ronald E. McRoberts
Remotely sensed data are frequently used for predicting and mapping ecosystem characteristics, and spatially explicit wall-to-wall information is sometimes proposed as the best possible source of information for decision-making. However, wall-to-wall information typically relies on model-based prediction, and several features of model-based prediction should be understood before extensively relying
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Old-growth mixed dipterocarp forests show variable losses and gains in aboveground biomass and standing carbon over forty years For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Sisira Ediriweera, Champika Bandara, Tithira Lakkana, Shanika Jayasinghe, David Woodbury, Arun Dayanandan, B.M.P. Singhakumara, Xiangcheng Mi, I.A.U.N. Gunatilleke, C.V.S. Gunatilleke, Mark S. Ashton
Background No studies have documented long-term trends in aboveground biomass (AGB) for mixed-dipterocarp forests (MDF), the dominant rain forest type in tropical wet equatorial Asia. In our study, we sought to document such trends over forty years across three sites representing lowland to lower montane elevations. Methods To do this, we established fifty 100 m × 25 m plots in 1978 across three
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Grouping tree species to estimate basal area increment in temperate multispecies forests in Durango, Mexico For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Jaime Roberto Padilla-Martínez, Carola Paul, Kai Husmann, José Javier Corral-Rivas, Klaus von Gadow
Multispecies forests have received increased scientific attention, driven by the hypothesis that biodiversity improves ecological resilience. However, a greater species diversity presents challenges for forest management and research. Our study aims to develop basal area growth models for tree species cohorts. The analysis is based on a dataset of 423 permanent plots (2,500 m2) located in temperate
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Arne Pommerening, Continuous Cover Forestry: Theories, Concepts, and Implementation. WILEY (2023), pp. 416; ISBN: 978-1-119-89532-9 (E-BOOK), ISBN: 978-1-119-89530-5 (PRINT). For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Zhonghua Zhao, Gangying Hui
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Nutrient retranslocation strategies associated with dieback of Pinus species in a semiarid sandy region of Northeast China For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Chang Liu, Kai Wang, Hongzhang Kang, Baoming Du, Risheng Zhang, Shanshan Tai
In the semiarid sandy region of Northeast China, Mongolian pine (Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica) suffers dieback after the age of 35, while Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora) and Chinese pine (Pinus tabuliformis) stay healthy. Foliar nutrient retranslocation reflects the nutrient conservation and utilization mechanism of plants in response to their habitats. However, the nutrient retranslocation
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Divergent responses of Picea crassifolia Kom. in different forest patches to climate change in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Zhongtong Peng, Qifeng Mo, Liangjun Zhu, Qingao Lu, Jiaqing Cai, Mingming Guo, Kun Xu, Yuandong Zhang
Global climate changes have significantly affected tree growth and forest structures and functions in some arid and semi-arid regions, which are becoming warmer and wetter. Due to natural factors such as climate and terrain, some tree species may form different forest patches at the edges of their distribution areas. However, how forest patches of various sizes respond to climate change is unclear
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Do forest health threats affect upland oak regeneration and recruitment? Advance reproduction is a key co-morbidity For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Lance A. Vickers, Benjamin O. Knapp, Daniel C. Dey, Lauren S. Pile Knapp
We analyzed national forest inventory data collected from circa 2000–2018 across 37 states in the eastern United States to better understand the influence of forest health related canopy disturbances on the regeneration and recruitment dynamics of upland oaks (Quercus). We found low levels of oak recruitment across all disturbance types examined but limited evidence of any direct effects from the type
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Influence of climate fluctuations on Pinus palustris growth and drought resilience For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 João Campôa, Joshua Puhlick
The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) ecosystem is an endangered ecosystem in the southeastern USA, and efforts to restore the species are ongoing. However, in recent decades, the region has experienced drastic fluctuations between wet and dry growing season conditions from year to year, and it is not fully understood how these fluctuations have influenced the growth of P. palustris. To address
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Silver fir tree-ring fluctuations decrease from north to south latitude—total solar irradiance and NAO are indicated as the main influencing factors For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Václav Šimůnek, Anna Prokůpková, Zdeněk Vacek, Stanislav Vacek, Jan Cukor, Jiří Remeš, Vojtěch Hájek, Giuseppe D'Andrea, Martin Šálek, Paola Nola, Osvaldo Pericolo, Šárka Holzbachová, Francesco Ripullone
Silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) is a flexible European tree species, mainly vegetating within the mountainous regions of Europe, but its growth responses across its latitudinal and longitudinal range have not yet been satisfactorily verified under changing environmental conditions. This study describes the tree-ring increment of silver fir in research plots across a latitudinal gradient from the northern
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Eucalyptus carbon stock estimation in subtropical regions with the modeling strategy of sample plots – airborne LiDAR – Landsat time series data For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Xiandie Jiang, Dengqiu Li, Guiying Li, Dengsheng Lu
Updating eucalyptus carbon stock data in a timely manner is essential for better understanding and quantifying its effects on ecological and hydrological processes. At present, there are no suitable methods to accurately estimate the eucalyptus carbon stock in a large area. This research aimed to explore the transferability of the eucalyptus carbon stock estimation model at temporal and spatial scales
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Impact of black cherry on pedunculate oak vitality in mixed forests: Balancing benefits and concerns For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Ellen Desie, Bart Muys, Jan den Ouden, Bart Nyssen, Rita Sousa-Silva, Leon van den Berg, Arnold van den Burg, Gert-Jan van Duinen, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Maaike Weijters, Karen Vancampenhout
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A guide for selecting the appropriate plot design to measure ungulate browsing For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Suzanne T.S. van Beeck Calkoen, Jérôme Milch, Andrea D. Kupferschmid, Christian Fiderer, Marco Heurich
Ungulate browsing often impairs tree regeneration, thus preventing the achievement of economic or conservation goals. Forest ungulate management would thus benefit from a practical decision tool that facilitates method selection from a wide range of monitoring methods and indicators currently available. In this study, we first provide an overview of the different browsing-impact monitoring methods
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Tree-based ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality of church forests and their agricultural matrix near Lake Tana, Ethiopia For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Ferehiwot Mequanint, Tobias Fremout, Diederik Strubbe, Alemayehu Wassie, Shimelis Aynalem, Enyew Adgo, Jan Nyssen, Amaury Frankl, Luc Lens, Bart Muys
Ecosystem services (ES) are the connection between nature and society, and are essential for the well-being of local communities that depend on them. In Ethiopia, church forests and the surrounding agricultural matrix supply numerous ES. However, the ES delivered by both land use types have not yet been assessed simultaneously. Here we surveyed both church forests and their agricultural matrices, aiming
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Detecting the presence of natural forests using airborne laser scanning data For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Marie-Claude Jutras-Perreault, Terje Gobakken, Erik Næsset, Hans Ole Ørka
Centuries of forest exploitation have caused significant loss of natural forests in Europe, leading to a decline in populations for many species. To prevent further loss in biodiversity, the Norwegian government has set a target of protecting 10% of the forested area. However, recent data from the National Forest Inventory (NFI) reveals that less than 2% of Norway's forested area consists of natural
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Sensitivity of forest phenology in China varies with proximity to forest edges For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Weibin You, Ziyi Xian, Guoyi Zhou, Evgenios Agathokleous, Zhen Yu
Background Shifts in forest phenological events serve as strong indicators of climate change. However, the sensitivity of phenology events to climate change in relation to forest origins has received limited attention. Moreover, it is unknown whether forest phenology changes with the proximity to forest edge. Methods This study examined the green-up dates, dormancy dates, time-integrated NDVI (LiNDVI
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The diameter of beech snags is an important factor for saproxylic beetle richness: Implications for forest management and conservation For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Václav Zumr, Oto Nakládal, Lukáš Bílek, Jiří Remeš
Snags are an important component of beech forests that promote biodiversity. However, their occurrence is completely marginal in managed stands. Creating snags in these stands would greatly enhance biodiversity. We investigated whether snag dimensions were important for saproxylic beetle richness since they were easily transferable parameters to forest management and assessed the presence of other
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Legacy effects of historical woodland changes on contemporary plant functional composition For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Ji-Zhong Wan, Chun-Jing Wang
Considering the legacy of plant functional composition can help assess ecosystem functions and ecosystem services across different spatial scales under land cover changes. Woody plants likely respond to natural and anthropogenic perturbations due to historical events (e.g., agricultural development), thus contemporary plant functional composition may be explained by historical woodland change, a type
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Forest composition and red oak (Quercus sp.) response to elevation gradients across greentree reservoirs For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Cassandra Hug, Pradip Saud, Keith McKnight, Douglas C. Osborne
Elevation gradients within forested wetlands have long been recognized for their role in defining species composition through factors such as hydrology and soil characteristics. Greentree reservoirs (GTRs) are levee-impounded tracts of bottomland hardwood forest flooded throughout the winter months to provide habitat for overwintering waterfowl. Artificial flooding of GTRs alters the forest composition
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Tree sapling vitality and recovery following the unprecedented 2018 drought in central Europe For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Mirela Beloiu Schwenke, Valeska Schönlau, Carl Beierkuhnlein
Background Ongoing climate change is anticipated to increase the frequency and intensity of drought events, thereby affecting forest recovery dynamics and elevating tree mortality. The drought of 2018, with its exceptional intensity and duration, had a significant adverse impact on tree species throughout Central Europe. However, our understanding of the resistance to and recovery of young trees from
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Trees species’ dispersal mode and habitat heterogeneity shape negative density dependence in a temperate forest For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Lishunan Yang, Daniel J. Johnson, Zhichun Yang, Xiaochao Yang, Qiulong Yin, Ying Luo, Zhanqing Hao, Shihong Jia
Conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) is a potentially important mechanism in maintaining species diversity. While previous evidence showed habitat heterogeneity and species’ dispersal modes affect the strength of CNDD at early life stages of trees (e.g., seedlings), it remains unclear how they affect the strength of CNDD at later life stages. We examined the degree of spatial aggregation
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Habitat heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate influences on seedling survival in a temperate forest For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-17 Haikun Liu, Hang Shi, Quan Zhou, Man Hu, Xiao Shu, Kerong Zhang, Quanfa Zhang, Haishan Dang
Seedling stage has long been recognized as the bottleneck of forest regeneration, and the biotic and abiotic processes that dominate at seedling stage largely affect the dynamics of forest. Seedlings might be particularly vulnerable to climate stress, so elucidating the role of interannual climate variation in fostering community dynamics is crucial to understanding the response of forest to climate
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Stabilizing forest productivity and resilience at multiple scales For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Klaus v. Gadow
The objective of this study is to introduce a coherent theoretical perspective for sustaining forested landscapes at different scales: meta (forest region), gamma (forest property) and alpha (forest stand), with some details on practical implementation. The main part introduces an integrated set of approaches under three headings: a) gamma design, b) alpha jardinage, and c) continuous observation.
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Spatiotemporal dynamics and geo-environmental factors influencing mangrove gross primary productivity during 2000–2020 in Gaoqiao Mangrove Reserve, China For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Demei Zhao, Yinghui Zhang, Junjie Wang, Jianing Zhen, Zhen Shen, Kunlun Xiang, Haoli Xiang, Yongquan Wang, Guofeng Wu
Background Mangrove forests are a significant contributor to the global carbon cycle, and the accurate estimation of their gross primary productivity (GPP) is essential for understanding the carbon budget within blue carbon ecosystems. Little attention has been given to the investigation of spatiotemporal patterns and ecological variations within mangrove ecosystems, as well as the quantitative analysis
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Assessing spatiotemporal variations of forest carbon density using bi-temporal discrete aerial laser scanning data in Chinese boreal forests For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Zhiyong Qi, Shiming Li, Yong Pang, Guang Zheng, Dan Kong, Zengyuan Li
Assessing the changes in forest carbon stocks over time is critical for monitoring carbon dynamics, estimating the balance between carbon uptake and release from forests, and providing key insights into climate change mitigation. In this study, we quantitatively characterized spatiotemporal variations in aboveground carbon density (ACD) in boreal natural forests in the Greater Khingan Mountains (GKM)
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Growth phenology adjusts to seasonal changes in water availability in coexisting evergreen and deciduous mediterranean oaks For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Filipe Campelo, Álvaro Rubio-Cuadrado, Fernando Montes, Michele Colangelo, Cristina Valeriano, J. Julio Camarero
Different leaf (evergreen vs. deciduous habit) and xylem (diffuse-vs. ring-porous wood) traits represent contrasting strategies to face seasonal changes in water availability and temperature. However, how contrasting leaf and xylem habits of coexisting tree species affect stem wood formation and tree-ring development remains poorly understood. Here, we investigated the spatio-temporal patterns of wood
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Effects of lag time in forest restoration and management For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Klaus J. Puettmann, Jürgen Bauhus
The increased speed of global change and associated high severity disturbances, in conjunction with the increasing suite of societal expectations on forests, suggest that the timeliness of interventions to encourage the adaptive capacity of ecosystems and to reduce negative impacts in regards to provision of ecosystem services is increasingly relevant. To address this issue, we expand the concept of
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Differential seed removal, germination and seedling growth as determinants of species suitability for forest restoration by direct seeding – A case study from northern Thailand For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Khuanphirom Naruangsri, Pimonrat Tiansawat, Stephen Elliott
Background Direct seeding is potentially a more cost-effective alternative to conventional tree planting for restoring tropical forest ecosystems. However, seed loss, due to removal and damage by animals, can substantially reduce seedling establishment. Therefore, this study examined the impact of seed predation on seedling establishment of five tree species, native to upland evergreen forests of northern
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Vegetation C–N–P accumulation and allocation patterns at the community level in early restored plantations in the loess hilly-gully region For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Huifeng Wu, Baoan Hu, Ying Ma, Wenkai Shi, Xiaoqin Cheng, Fengfeng Kang, Hairong Han
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Spatial niche segregation between bird species in the Białowieża primeval forest (NE Poland) For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Oliwia Karpińska, Katarzyna Kamionka-Kanclerska, Patryk Czortek, Marcin K. Dyderski, Dorota Czeszczewik
Drivers of bird niche separation in temperate primeval forests have not yet been determined, due to the low number of intact forest sites. Here, we analyzed the general patterns of niche usage on trees by birds’ assemblages. We tested how tree species affect the sharing of space in an assemblage of birds and their level of specialization. We conducted our study in the Białowieża primeval forest (NE
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Developing allometric equations to estimate forest biomass for tree species categories based on phylogenetic relationships For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Mingxia Yang, Xiaolu Zhou, Changhui Peng, Tong Li, Kexin Chen, Zelin Liu, Peng Li, Cicheng Zhang, Jiayi Tang, Ziying Zou
The development of allometric biomass models is important process in biomass estimation because the reliability of forest biomass and carbon estimations largely depends on the accuracy and precision of such models. National Forest Inventories (NFI) are detailed assessments of forest resources at national and regional levels that provide valuable data for forest biomass estimation. However, the lack
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Words apart: Standardizing forestry terms and definitions across European biodiversity studies For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Giovanni Trentanovi, Thomas Campagnaro, Tommaso Sitzia, Francesco Chianucci, Giorgio Vacchiano, Christian Ammer, Michał Ciach, Thomas A. Nagel, Miren del Río, Yoan Paillet, Silvana Munzi, Kris Vandekerkhove, Andrés Bravo-Oviedo, Andrea Cutini, Ettore D'Andrea, Pallieter De Smedt, Inken Doerfler, Dimitris Fotakis, Jacob Heilmann-Clausen, Jeňýk Hofmeister, Sabina Burrascano
Forest biodiversity studies conducted across Europe use a multitude of forestry terms, often inconsistently. This hinders the comparability across studies and makes the assessment of the impacts of forest management on biodiversity highly context-dependent. Recent attempts to standardize forestry and stand description terminology mostly used a top-down approach that did not account for the perspectives
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Regeneration of Nothofagus dombeyi (Mirb.) Ørst. in little to moderately disturbed southern beech forests in the Andes of Patagonia (Argentina) For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Stefan Zerbe, Stefanie T. Storz, Georg Leitinger, Natalia Zoe Joelson, José Bava, Steffi Heinrichs, Christoph Leuschner, Gabriel Loguercio, Alois Simon, María F. Urretavizcaya, Helge Walentowski
Natural forests and stands subjected to little to moderate human impact are continuously declining worldwide and with these, their biodiversity and ecosystem services. Many Nothofagus forests in the south of the South American continent are in a pristine state or only moderately impacted by humans. Forest grazing by livestock, in the past and still today often practiced in a non-sustainable way is
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Response of fungal communities to afforestation and its indication for forest restoration For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-16
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Climate and fire drivers of forest composition and openness in the Changbai Mountains since the Late Glacial For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Meng Meng, Sandy P. Harrison, Dongmei Jie, Nannan Li, Baojian Liu, Dehui Li, Guizai Gao, Honghao Niu
Ongoing climate changes have a direct impact on forest growth; they also affect natural fire regimes, with further implications for forest composition. Understanding of how these will affect forests on decadal-to-centennial timescales is limited. Here we use reconstructions of past vegetation, fire regimes and climate during the Holocene to examine the relative importance of changes in climate and
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Complexity responses of Rhododendron species to climate change in China reveal their urgent need for protection For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Kun-Ji Li, Xiao-Fei Liu, Jin-Hong Zhang, Xiong-Li Zhou, Liu Yang, Shi-Kang Shen
Global climate change has been widely recognized as important factors that threaten biodiversity. Rhododendron species are not only famous woody ornamental plants worldwide but are also indispensable components in alpine and subalpine vegetation in southwest China. However, the geographical distribution ranges response of this broad taxonomic group to future climate change remains not be fully understood
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Ecological stoichiometric comparison of plant-litter-soil system in mixed-species and monoculture plantations of Robinia pseudoacacia, Amygdalus davidiana, and Armeniaca sibirica in the Loess Hilly Region of China For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Senbao Lu, Yunming Chen, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas
We examined how afforestation patterns impact carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) stoichiometry in the plant-litter-soil system. Plant leaf, branch, stem, and root, litter, and soil samples were collected from mixed-species plantations of Robinia pseudoacacia with Amygdalus davidiana (RPAD), R. pseudoacacia with Armeniaca sibirica (RPAS), and monocultures of R. pseudoacacia (RP), A. davidiana
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Eight decades of compositional change in a managed northern hardwood landscape For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Mark J. Ducey, Olivia L. Fraser, Mariko Yamasaki, Ethan P. Belair, William B. Leak
We analyzed over 8 decades of change in forest composition (represented by species proportion of basal area) and size class from more than 400 permanent plots located on the Bartlett Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. These data represent one of the longest-term landscape-scale records of forest change based on permanent plots in North America. We analyzed the plots based
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Remote sensing of subtropical tree diversity: The underappreciated roles of the practical definition of forest canopy and phenological variation For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Yongchao Liu, Ruyun Zhang, Chen-Feng Lin, Zhaochen Zhang, Ran Zhang, Kankan Shang, Mingshui Zhao, Jingyue Huang, Xiaoning Wang, You Li, Yulin Zeng, Yun-Peng Zhao, Jian Zhang, Dingliang Xing
Tree species diversity is vital for maintaining ecosystem functions, yet our ability to map the distribution of tree diversity is limited due to difficulties in traditional field-based approaches. Recent developments in spaceborne remote sensing provide unprecedented opportunities to map and monitor tree diversity more efficiently. Here we built partial least squares regression models using the multispectral
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Mapping species assemblages of tropical forests at different hierarchical levels based on multivariate regression trees For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Qi Yang, Maaike Y. Bader, Guang Feng, Jialing Li, Dexu Zhang, Wenxing Long
Background Vegetation distribution maps are of great significance for nature protection and management. In diverse tropical forests, accurate spatial mapping of vegetation types is challenging; the high species diversity and abundance of rare species challenge classification concepts, while remote sensing signals may not vary systematically with species composition, complicating the technical capability
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Ice storm damage to oak forests in subtropical China For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Jinyu Guo, Jifa Cui, Nan Wu, Yaqian Zhang, Jie Wang, Hanyu Xiang, Baoshuang Hu, Youbing Zhou
Ice storms, as important sources of frequent and injurious disturbances, drive forest dynamics in the Northern Hemisphere. However, stand-level differential vulnerability to ice storms and the associated factors that predispose forest stands remain unclear. This is particularly concerning in the subtropics where the frequency of ice storms is predicted to increase with global warming. Here we assessed
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Multi-year throughfall reduction enhanced the growth and non-structural carbohydrate storage of roots at the expenses of above-ground growth in a warm-temperate natural oak forest For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Cuiju Liu, Zhicheng Chen, Shirong Liu, Kunfang Cao, Baoliang Niu, Xiaojing Liu, Xiaomin Gao
The more frequent occurrence and severer drought events resulting from climate change are increasingly affecting the physiological performance of trees and ecosystem carbon sequestration in many regions of the world. However, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the responses and adaption of forest trees to prolonged and multi-year drought is still limited. To address this problem, we conducted
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Orchid diversity and distribution pattern in karst forests in eastern Yunnan Province, China For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Qiang Liu, Xunfeng Wu, Haitao Xing, Kuanbo Chi, Wenhua Wang, Liang Song, Xiaoke Xing
Global biodiversity loss and mass extinction of species have raised serious global concerns, especially in fragile ecosystems. Karst forest, a well-known fragile ecosystem, is served as a natural laboratory for biogeographical, ecological, evolutionary, and taxonomic research. However, species richness and distribution patterns in karst forests largely remain unclear. Orchidaceae has been regarded
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Moso bamboo expansion decreased soil heterotrophic respiration but increased arbuscular mycorrhizal mycelial respiration in a subtropical broadleaved forest For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Wenhao Jin, Jiaying Tu, Qifeng Wu, Liyuan Peng, Jiajia Xing, Chenfei Liang, Shuai Shao, Junhui Chen, Qiufang Xu, Hua Qin
Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys Pubescens) expansion into adjacent forests has been widely reported to affect plant diversity and its association with mycorrhizal fungi in subtropical China, which will likely have significant impacts on soil respiration. However, there is still limited information on how Moso bamboo expansion changes soil respiration components and their linkage with microbial community
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Alternative expressions for stand diameter in complex forests For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Mark J. Ducey, John A. Kershaw
Quadratic mean diameter is the most frequently reported descriptor of the diameter distribution of forests. As such, it is often used as an indicator of forest stand structure, developmental stage, and ecological and economic potential. However, quadratic mean diameter can be heavily influenced by the presence or absence of large numbers of small stems in lower canopy strata, and it is also sensitive
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Deadwood affects the soil organic matter fractions and enzyme activity of soils in altitude gradient of temperate forests For. Ecosyst. (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Ewa Błońska, Wojciech Prażuch, Jarosław Lasota
The main objective of our study has been to determine the role of deadwood in the shaping of the amount of soil organic matter fractions in mountain forest soils. For this purpose, a climosequence approach comprising north (N) and south (S) exposure along the altitudinal gradient (600, 800, 1000 and 1200 m a.s.l.) was set up. By comparing the properties of decomposing deadwood and those of the soils