Special Issues

Forests runs special issues to create collections of papers on specific topics. The aim is to build a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors who are experts in the subject and oversee the editorial process for papers. Papers published in a Special Issue will be collected together on a dedicated page of the journal website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Heavy Metals in Forests: Future Research Needs
edited by Panagiotis Michopoulos
submission deadline 25 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 161 | Submission Open
Keywords: heavy metals; deposition; forest soils; climate change; biogeochemistry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)
Tree Growth in Relation to Climate Change submission deadline 25 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 151 | Submission Open
Keywords: tree growth; ecotone; species northern and altitudinal limits; species range; boreal and temperate forests; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
Clear-Cutting in Modern Forestry: New Approaches and Latest Findings submission deadline 27 Oct 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 706 | Submission Open
Keywords: clear-cutting; forest soils; biodiversity; plant communities of clear-cutting areas; plant and animal species associated with logging; young trees’ adaptation for logging; reforestation methods; natural reforestation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Reviews on Structure and Physical and Mechanical Properties of Wood submission deadline 30 Oct 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 25930 | Submission Open
Keywords: xylogenesis; cell wall: ultrastructure and chemical composition; macroscopic structure. juvenile and mature wood. reaction wood.; softwood anatomy; hardwood anatomy; water-wood relationships; mechanical properties of wood; electrical and thermal properties of wood; acoustic properties of wood; modified wood; wood degradation agents
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
Forest Mechanization and Harvesting—Trends and Perspectives submission deadline 30 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2885 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest mechanization; timber extraction; biomass; ergonomics; efficiency; precision forestry; plantation forestry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Operations and Engineering)
Impacts of Extreme Climate Events on Forests submission deadline 30 Oct 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1322 | Submission Open
Keywords: tropical cyclones; freezing rain; snowstorm; prolonged drought and high temperature; tree physiology; plant functional trait; forest biodiversity; carbon and nutrient cycling; ecosystem stability; new concepts or theories TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian   //   TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back //
(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)
Sustainable Forest Management, Agroforestry Competencies and Regenerative Agriculture for Attaining 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) submission deadline 30 Oct 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 749 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable forest; management; agroforestry; modelling; lifecycle assessment; regenerative agriculture; sustainable development goals; soil; water; and biodiversity conservation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
Chemical Study of Forest Bark and Potential Uses submission deadline 30 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 172 | Submission Open
Keywords: wood bark; chemical study; valorization; extraction; value added products; antioxidant activity; unused plant biomass; analytical approaches; chemical characterization; target compounds; method development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
Plant-Mediated Volatile Emissions upon Abiotic Stress in Forests: Relationships with Photosynthetic Traits
edited by Arooran Kanagendran and
submission deadline 30 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 161 | Submission Open
Keywords: BVOCs; abiotic stress; photosynthesis; terpenoids; atmospheric chemistry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
Fire Ecology and Management in Forest submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 12 articles | Viewed by 13065 | Submission Open
Keywords: wildfire; prescribed burning; fire ecology; fire regime; fire behavior; fuel characteristics and management; fire prediction and fighting techniques
(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)
Forest Soil Carbon Cycle in Response to Global Change
edited by , Jingsheng Xie and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 10 articles | Viewed by 11643 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest ecosystem; species diversity; forest productivity; soil carbon decomposition and formation; microbial diversity; global change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Soil)
Advances in Resilient Adaptation to Climate Change in the Forest Sector
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9412 | Submission Open
Keywords: resilient adaptation; climate change; spatial assessment; adaptation capacity; climate risk; carbon neutral
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Meteorology and Climate Change)
Advances in Forest Growth and Biomass Estimation
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7483 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomass assessment methods; allometry; carbon storage; biomass allocation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
Fungal Biodiversity, Systematics, and Evolution submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2882 | Submission Open
Keywords: mushrooms; biotechnology; fungal taxonomy; fungal phylogeny; fungal ecology; secondary metabolites of fungi; biological activities of fungi; artificial cultivation of fungi; ectomycorrhizal fungi
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)
Diversity, Taxonomy and Functions of Forest Microorganisms submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2341 | Submission Open
Keywords: fungi; bacteria; nematode; phytoplasma; phylogeny; morphology; plant diseases
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)
Soil Nutrient Cycling and Microbial Dynamics in Forests
edited by , Jianping Wu and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2180 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil nutrients; soil microbes; soil– food web; soil function; soil water; climate change; forest management practice; decomposition
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Science and Technology of Lignocellulosic Materials submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1876 | Submission Open
Keywords: wood bark; lignocellulosic biomass; chemistry structure; cellulose; lignin; hemicelluloses; extractives; fine chemicals; decomposition; nanocrystalline cellulose; nanofibrillated cellulose; nanolignin; advanced methods; characterization; application; bionanocomposites; biopolymers; biodegradable
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
Advanced Statistical Modeling in Forests Climate Change and Natural Hazards submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1796 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest fires; landslides; floods; droughts; soil erosion; climate change; pest and pathogen outbreaks; other hazards; species distribution models and climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)
Molecular Markers in Forest Management and Tree Breeding
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1142 | Submission Open
Keywords: molecular markers; forest management; tree breeding; genetics; genomics; conservation; breeding programs; marker-assisted selection; DNA markers; genetic diversity; population genetics; genetic improvement; phenotypic variation; forest biotechnology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Sustainable Investments in Urban and Periurban Environments through Nature-Based Solutions: Novel Approaches and Methods submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 321 | Submission Open
Keywords: integrated assessment methods; ecosystem services assessment; sustainable finance criteria; real estate market; impact investment decisions; urban forests/trees
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Forestry)
Geospatial Technologies for Forests Carbon Stock Assessment in the Tropics submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 302 | Submission Open
Keywords: tropical forests; carbon stock; carbon offset; sequestration; biomass carbon; assessment techniques; monitoring approach; land use; net-zero; geospatial; GIS
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
Prognosis of Forest Production Using Machine Learning Techniques submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 225 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; forest production; carbon storage; remote sensing; model prediction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
Application of Molecular Genetic Tools for Forest Pathology submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open
Keywords: molecular genetics; forest pathology; disease identification; pest detection; pathogen detection; phylogenetic analysis; disease management; host– pathogen interactions; fungal diversity; next-generation sequencing; barcoding; meta-barcoding
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)
Composites from Recycled and Modified Woods—Technology, Properties, Application—Series II submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open
Keywords: wood composites; particleboards; plywood; recycled wood; modified wood; processing; finishing; physical– mechanical properties; service life; bio-resistance; abio-resistance TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian   //   TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back //
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
The Regulation Mechanism of the Formation of Important Characteristics in Woody Plants
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open
Keywords: woody plant; important characteristics; regulation mechanism; special metabolism; morphological development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Wildlife Hunting and Conservation in Forests
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open
Keywords: hunting; human– wildlife conflict; attitudes toward hunting; attitudes toward conservation; invasive alien species; rural development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)
Forest Integrated Pest Management: Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities
edited by , and Qinghua Wang
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 93 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest pest management; ecosystem; ecological interaction; technology; biological control; habitat manipulation; resistance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Health)
Advances in Tree Ecophysiology under Drought Stress submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open
Keywords: tree ecophysiology; drought tolerance; climate change; forest ecosystems; plant– water relationships; vulnerability to cavitation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
Biology and Control of Invasive Arthropods and Pathogens on Woody Species—Volume II submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open
Keywords: alien species; arthropod– pathogen interactions; best practice management; biological control; biology and ecology of pests and pathogens; dispersal modelling; ecological and economic impacts; introduced species; management tools; monitoring; natural enemies; new emerging and invasive species; outbreak; pest and disease management; plant defence; plant– insect interactions; population and community dynamics; risk assessment; tree pests; tree pathogens; tripartite interactions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
Alternative Woods and Innovative Uses of Traditional Woods for Sustainable Wood-Based Products submission deadline 9 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 169 | Submission Open
Keywords: alternative wood species; characterization; lesser-known timber species; structural and non-structural uses; sustainability; new uses of wood; wood-based products
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
Cognitive Ergonomics and Forestry: New Insight and Future Directions
edited by Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo and
submission deadline 9 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Operations and Engineering)
Mapping Forest Vegetation via Remote Sensing Tools submission deadline 10 Nov 2023 | 11 articles | Viewed by 10800 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest vegetation mapping; advanced image processing; image classification; multispectral data; hyperspectral data; SAR; LİDAR
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
Long-Term Deciduous Forest Dynamics
edited by
submission deadline 10 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 130 | Submission Open
Keywords: stand dynamics; ecophysiology; broadleaved forests; competition; cohorts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Landslides in Forests around the World: Causes and Mitigation—Series II submission deadline 15 Nov 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4305 | Submission Open
Keywords: landslides in forests; landslide inventory; remote sensing; spatial– temporal prediction; machine learning; deep learning; physics-based and data-driven hybrid modeling; susceptibility and hazard mapping; risk assessment and management; monitoring and early warning TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian   //   TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back //
(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)
Application of Glulam Beams in Wood Building Industry submission deadline 15 Nov 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3790 | Submission Open
Keywords: glulam beams; structural elements; engineered wood product; structural timber; beams reinforcement; wood-based materials; construction elements
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
Prediction and Management of Urban Forest Storm Damage submission deadline 15 Nov 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2764 | Submission Open
Keywords: blow down; derecho; hurricane; ice storms; tornado; trees and wind; tropical cyclone; tropical storm; typhoon; urban forestry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)
Application of Microbes in Landscape Restoration
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Nov 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2323 | Submission Open
Keywords: microbial ecology; soil microbes; niche functional differentiation; landscape ecology; restoration process; response mechanism; bioinformation; biodiversity research; functional evaluation; ecological security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Urban Forest Landscape Planning, Management and Evaluation submission deadline 15 Nov 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 821 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban biodiversity; urban landscape planning; biotic factors; abiotic factors; decision-making process; IT tools
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Monitoring of Forest Ecosystems at Different Scales submission deadline 15 Nov 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 509 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest plant communities; northern limit of forest ecosystems; air pollution; heavy metals; pollution-induced degradation; climate change; biological invasions; landscape fragmentation.
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Improving Wood Durability through Heat Treatment submission deadline 15 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 181 | Submission Open
Keywords: wood thermal modification; heat treatment; wood protection; wood durability; wood destroying fungi; wood products; wood property; wood preservation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
Development of Nuclear SNP Markers for Tracing Timber submission deadline 20 Nov 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 984 | Submission Open
Keywords: illegal logging; forensics; SNP markers; SSR markers; timber tracking; trees; tropical trees
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
Sap Flow Measurements—a Tool to Talk with Trees submission deadline 21 Nov 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2495 | Submission Open
Keywords: sap flow methodology; forest hydrology; transpiration; water relation; water uptake; hydraulic redistribution; tree hydraulic architecture; irrigation scheduling; plant water status; tree vitality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
Ecosystem Services and the Forest Economy submission deadline 21 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 177 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecosystem services; economic value; policy; management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
Physico-Mechanical Properties of Lignocellulosic Material and Its Application
edited by Mohd Khairun Anwar Uyup and
submission deadline 23 Nov 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 646 | Submission Open
Keywords: wood and non-wood; nanocellulose; advance materials; nanocomposites; solid biofuels
(This special issue belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
Observation and Research on Ecological Restoration of Degraded Forests submission deadline 23 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 248 | Submission Open
Keywords: degraded forest; ecological forest restoration; observation technology; plant– soil feedback; sustainable forestry; silvicultural measures; optimization of forest structure and function
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Protection, Ecological Restoration and Sustainable Management of Natural Forest: Theory and Technology submission deadline 24 Nov 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8353 | Submission Open
Keywords: natural forest; forest structure; function; succession dynamics; forest biodiversity; growth pattern; hydrological ecology; ecological restoration; protection and sustainable management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Impact of Global Economic Changes on the Wood-Based Industry
edited by , , and Daniela Ventsislavova Georgieva
submission deadline 24 Nov 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 565 | Submission Open
Keywords: wood industry; wood products; timber products; wood industry economics; wood supply chains; wood supply and demand; forest policy; green economy; eco-friendly solutions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
Community Forestry and Forest and Landscape Restoration in Developing Countries: Learning from the Field
edited by
submission deadline 24 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 95 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest and landscape restoration (FLR); community forestry; rewilding; agroforestry; silvopastoral systems; participatory governance; rural livelihoods
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
Forest Harvesting and Forest Product Supply Chain submission deadline 25 Nov 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4355 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced forest operation techniques; forest biomass estimation and utilization; environmental impacts of forest operations; precision forestry; mobile Lidar application in 3D mapping forest structure; Lidar slam application in forest machine; AI/ML application in forestry; UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) application in forestry; ALS (aerial laser system) technology for forest inventory assessment; TLS (terrestrial laser system) technology for forest road application
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Operations and Engineering)
Fir and Pine Management in Changeable Environment submission deadline 25 Nov 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4254 | Submission Open
Keywords: fir forests; pine forests; stands dynamics; silviculture and management; adaptability to a changing environment; products and ecosystem services; diseases and risks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
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