Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Forests 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Forests were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, four winners were selected.

Two Reviews:
Global Change and Forest Disturbances in the Mediterranean Basin: Breakthroughs, Knowledge Gaps, and Recommendations
By Josep Peñuelas and Jordi Sardans
Forests 2021, 12(5), 603; doi:10.3390/f12050603 

Recent Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Forest Remote Sensing—A Systematic Review. Part II: Research Applications
By Riccardo Dainelli, Piero Toscano, Salvatore Filippo Di Gennaro and Alessandro Matese
Forests 2021, 12(4), 397; doi:10.3390/f12040397

Two Articles:
Xylem Phenology and Growth Response of European Beech, Silver Fir and Scots Pine along an Elevational Gradient during the Extreme Drought Year 2018
By Elena Larysch, Dominik Florian Stangler, Mona Nazari, Thomas Seifert and Hans-Peter Kahle
Forests 2021, 12(1), 75; doi:10.3390/f12010075 

Emerald Ash Borer Approaches the Borders of the European Union and Kazakhstan and Is Confirmed to Infest European Ash
By Mark G. Volkovitsh, Andrzej O. Bieńkowski and Marina J. Orlova-Bienkowskaja
Forests 2021, 12(6), 691; doi:10.3390/f12060691 

Each winner will receive CHF 500, an electronic certificate and a chance to publish a paper in Forests free of charge in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of Forests 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Forests.

Kind regards,
Forests Editorial Office

 
Forests 2021 Best Paper Award
 
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

19 pages, 5502 KiB  
Article
Global Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping Based on Machine Learning Models
by Assaf Shmuel and Eyal Heifetz
Forests 2022, 13(7), 1050; https://doi.org/10.3390/f13071050 - 03 Jul 2022
18 pages, 7929 KiB  
Article
A Vision-Based Detection and Spatial Localization Scheme for Forest Fire Inspection from UAV
by Kangjie Lu, Renjie Xu, Junhui Li, Yuhao Lv, Haifeng Lin and Yunfei Liu
Forests 2022, 13(3), 383; https://doi.org/10.3390/f13030383 - 25 Feb 2022
46 pages, 4818 KiB  
Review
Review of Wood Modification and Wood Functionalization Technologies
by Samuel L. Zelinka, Michael Altgen, Lukas Emmerich, Nathanael Guigo, Tobias Keplinger, Maija Kymäläinen, Emil E. Thybring and Lisbeth G. Thygesen
Forests 2022, 13(7), 1004; https://doi.org/10.3390/f13071004 - 26 Jun 2022
31 pages, 4562 KiB  
Review
Recent Advances in Forest Insect Pests and Diseases Monitoring Using UAV-Based Data: A Systematic Review
by André Duarte, Nuno Borralho, Pedro Cabral and Mário Caetano
Forests 2022, 13(6), 911; https://doi.org/10.3390/f13060911 - 10 Jun 2022

Award Committee

Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng Chairman
University of Auckland
Prof. Dr. Zeki Candan
Istanbul University
Dr. Radu-Daniel Pintilii
University of Bucharest - Faculty of Geography
Dr. Michele Salis
National Research Council of Italy - Institute of BioEconomy
Dr. Mahadev Sharma
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Winner

27 pages, 2507 KiB  
Review
Global Change and Forest Disturbances in the Mediterranean Basin: Breakthroughs, Knowledge Gaps, and Recommendations
by Josep Peñuelas and Jordi Sardans
Forests 2021, 12(5), 603; https://doi.org/10.3390/f12050603 - 11 May 2021
41 pages, 1032 KiB  
Review
Recent Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Forest Remote Sensing—A Systematic Review. Part II: Research Applications
by Riccardo Dainelli, Piero Toscano, Salvatore Filippo Di Gennaro and Alessandro Matese
Forests 2021, 12(4), 397; https://doi.org/10.3390/f12040397 - 27 Mar 2021
24 pages, 5671 KiB  
Article
Xylem Phenology and Growth Response of European Beech, Silver Fir and Scots Pine along an Elevational Gradient during the Extreme Drought Year 2018
by Elena Larysch, Dominik Florian Stangler, Mona Nazari, Thomas Seifert and Hans-Peter Kahle
Forests 2021, 12(1), 75; https://doi.org/10.3390/f12010075 - 10 Jan 2021
13 pages, 4340 KiB  
Article
Emerald Ash Borer Approaches the Borders of the European Union and Kazakhstan and Is Confirmed to Infest European Ash
by Mark G. Volkovitsh, Andrzej O. Bieńkowski and Marina J. Orlova-Bienkowskaja
Forests 2021, 12(6), 691; https://doi.org/10.3390/f12060691 - 27 May 2021

Award Committee

Dr. Timothy A. Martin Chairman
University of Florida
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