Forest Ecology and Management

Article	Citations
Devastating outbreak of bark beetles in the Czech Republic: Drivers, impacts, and management implications	152
The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe	121
The impact of fire on soil-dwelling biota: A review	106
Individual tree detection and species classification of Amazonian palms using UAV images and deep learning	105
Decomposition and transformations along the continuum from litter to soil organic matter in forest soils	102
Terrain gradient variations in ecosystem services of different vegetation types in mountainous regions: Vegetation resource conservation and sustainable development	101
Mechanisms of forest resilience	92
Forest fire susceptibility mapping via multi-criteria decision analysis techniques for Mugla, Turkey: A comparative analysis of VIKOR and TOPSIS	88
Early detection of pine wilt disease using deep learning algorithms and UAV-based multispectral imagery	84
What is the potential for replacing monocultures with mixed-species stands to enhance ecosystem services in boreal forests in Fennoscandia?	83
Application of conventional UAV-based high-throughput object detection to the early diagnosis of pine wilt disease by deep learning	77
Tamm review: Leaf Area Index (LAI) is both a determinant and a consequence of important processes in vegetation canopies	71
Economic valuation of ecosystem services from secondary tropical forests: trade-offs and implications for policy making	64
Impacts of climate change scenarios on European ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior L.) in Turkey	63
Soil organic matter, nitrogen and pH driven change in bacterial community following forest conversion	63
Remote sensing of temperate and boreal forest phenology: A review of progress, challenges and opportunities in the intercomparison of in-situ and satellite phenological metrics	61
Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests	59
The importance of Indigenous cultural burning in forested regions of the Pacific West, USA	56
Tamm review: Does salvage logging mitigate subsequent forest disturbances?	55
Tamm review: The effects of prescribed fire on wildfire regimes and impacts: A framework for comparison	53
Bees in the trees: Diverse spring fauna in temperate forest edge canopies	52
Open forest ecosystems: An excluded state	50
Ecological restoration projects did not increase the value of all ecosystem services in Northeast China	50
Variable thinning and prescribed fire influence tree mortality and growth during and after a severe drought	49
Satellite evidence for China's leading role in restoring vegetation productivity over global karst ecosystems	48

Forest thinning increases soil carbon stocks in China	46
Change in forest condition: Characterizing non-stand replacing disturbances using time series satellite imagery	46
Functional traits indicate a continuum of tree drought strategies across a soil water availability gradient in a tropical dry forest	45
Biological control of emerging forest diseases: How can we move from dreams to reality?	45
Climate and large-sized trees, but not diversity, drive above-ground biomass in subtropical forests	45
Tamm Review: Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States	44
Mass fire behavior created by extensive tree mortality and high tree density not predicted by operational fire behavior models in the southern Sierra Nevada	44
Effects of forest harvesting and biomass removal on soil carbon and nitrogen: Two complementary meta-analyses	43
Impacts and uncertainties of climate change projections on Eucalyptus plantations productivity across Brazil	43
Fire from policy, human interventions, or biophysical factors? Temporal–spatial patterns of forest fire in southwestern China	43
Litter manipulation effects on microbial communities and enzymatic activities vary with soil depth in a subtropical Chinese fir plantation	42
Forests of the future: Climate change impacts and implications for carbon storage in the Pacific Northwest, USA	42
A comparison of five methods to assess embolism resistance in trees	42
Mixed vs. monospecific mountain forests in response to climate change: structural and growth perspectives of Norway spruce and European beech	42
A global synthesis on the effects of thinning on hydrological processes: Implications for forest management	41
California spotted owl habitat selection in a fire-managed landscape suggests conservation benefit of restoring historical fire regimes	41
Nitrous oxide emissions of undrained, forestry-drained, and rewetted boreal peatlands	41
Mixing with broad-leaved trees shapes the rhizosphere soil fungal communities of coniferous tree species in subtropical forests	41
Predicting potential mangrove distributions at the global northern distribution margin using an ecological niche model: Determining conservation and reforestation involvement	40
Dual inoculations of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria boost drought resistance and essential oil yield of common myrtle	40
Cumulative effects of multiple biodiversity attributes and abiotic factors on ecosystem multifunctionality in the Jinsha River valley of southwestern China	40
Tree species effects on topsoil carbon stock and concentration are mediated by tree species type, mycorrhizal association, and N-fixing ability at the global scale	39
Resprouting drives successional pathways and the resilience of Caatinga dry forest in human-modified landscapes	39
High-severity wildfire reduces richness and alters composition of ectomycorrhizal fungi in low-severity adapted ponderosa pine forests	39
Growing stock monitoring by European National Forest Inventories: Historical origins, current methods and harmonisation	39
Biochar application increased ecosystem carbon sequestration capacity in a Moso bamboo forest	39
The course of tree growth. Theory and reality	39
Stand structure determines aboveground biomass across temperate forest types and species mixture along a local-scale elevational gradient	38
The effects of nitrogen addition on soil organic carbon decomposition and microbial C-degradation functional genes abundance in a Pinus tabulaeformis forest	37
Relations of land cover, topography, and climate to fire occurrence in natural regions of Iran: Applying new data mining techniques for modeling and mapping fire danger	37
Tree, stand, and landscape factors contributing to hurricane damage in a coastal plain forest: Post-hurricane assessment in a longleaf pine landscape	37
Effects of different vegetation restoration on soil nutrients, enzyme activities, and microbial communities in degraded karst landscapes in southwest China	37
The negative effect of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) monoculture plantations on soil physicochemical properties, microbial biomass, fungal communities, and enzymatic activities	37
A random forest model for basal area increment predictions from national forest inventory data	37
Irrigation management in poplar (Populus spp.) plantations: A review	36
Whole-plant water hydraulic integrity to predict drought-induced Eucalyptus urophylla mortality under drought stress	36
Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity	36
Influence of climatic variations on production, biomass and density of wood in eucalyptus clones of different species	36
The impact of land-use legacies and recent management on natural disturbance susceptibility in mountain forests	36
Non-native Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) in Central Europe: Ecology, performance and nature conservation	36
Assessing the effects of thinning on stem growth allocation of individual Scots pine trees	35
Reducing rotation age to address increasing disturbances in Central Europe: Potential and limitations	35
Natural disturbances risks in European Boreal and Temperate forests and their links to climate change – A review of modelling approaches	35
How C:N:P stoichiometry in soils and plants responds to succession in Robinia pseudoacacia forests on the Loess Plateau, China	35
A history of recurrent, low-severity fire without fire exclusion in southeastern pine savannas, USA	35
Deer browsing and shrub competition set sapling recruitment height and interact with light to shape recruitment niches for temperate forest tree species	35
Temporal changes in Mediterranean forest ecosystem services are driven by stand development, rather than by climate-related disturbances	33
Continuous-cover forestry maintains soil fungal communities in Norway spruce dominated boreal forests	33
Competition and facilitation co-regulate the spatial patterns of boreal tree species in Kanas of Xinjiang, northwest China	33
Bark stripping, the crucial factor affecting stem rot development and timber production of Norway spruce forests in Central Europe	33

Rapid and surprising dieback of Utah juniper in the southwestern USA due to acute drought stress	33
Effects of intensive management practices on rhizosphere soil properties, root growth, and nutrient uptake in Moso bamboo plantations in subtropical China	33
Comparison of field survey and remote sensing techniques for detection of bark beetle-infested trees	33
A generalized nonlinear mixed-effects height–diameter model for Norway spruce in mixed-uneven aged stands	33
How drought stress becomes visible upon detecting tree shape using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)	32
Phosphite spray for the control of oak decline induced by Phytophthora in Europe	32
Modeling fuel loads dynamics and fire spread probability in the Brazilian Cerrado	32
Effects of diversity, climate and litter on soil organic carbon storage in subtropical forests	32
Understory vegetation dynamics of Chinese fir plantations and natural secondary forests in subtropical China	32
A multi-point aggregation trend of the outbreak of pine wilt disease in China over the past 20 years	32
Ecosystem-level carbon stocks and sequestration rates in mangroves in the Cananéia-Iguape lagoon estuarine system, southeastern Brazil	32
Tamm Review: Ecological principles to guide post-fire forest landscape management in the Inland Pacific and Northern Rocky Mountain regions	32
Invasive red oak (Quercus rubra L.) modifies soil physicochemical properties and forest understory vegetation	31
Characterizing recent bark beetle-caused tree mortality in the western United States from aerial surveys	31
A comparative assessment of the vertical distribution of forest components using full-waveform airborne, discrete airborne and discrete terrestrial laser scanning data	31
The effects of forest management on water quality	31
Topographic position amplifies consequences of short-interval stand-replacing fires on postfire tree establishment in subalpine conifer forests	30
The influence of birch trees (Betula spp.) on soil environment – A review	30
Influence of nitrogen addition on the functional diversity and biomass of fine roots in warm-temperate and subtropical forests	30
Basal area increment models accounting for climate and mixture for Austrian tree species	30
Increase of soil nitrogen availability and recycling with stand age of Chinese-fir plantations	30
Airborne lidar provides reliable estimates of canopy base height and canopy bulk density in southwestern ponderosa pine forests	29
Transition from N to P limited soil nutrients over time since restoration in degraded subtropical broadleaved mixed forests	29
Differential effects of drought on nonstructural carbohydrate storage in seedlings and mature trees of four species in a subtropical forest	29
European beech leads to more bioactive humus forms but stronger mineral soil acidification as Norway spruce and Scots pine – Results of a repeated site assessment after 63 and 82 years of forest conve	29
Forest water-use efficiency: Effects of climate change and management on the coupling of carbon and water processes	29
Determinants of aboveground biomass in forests across three climatic zones in China	29
Bark beetle infestation spots as biodiversity hotspots: Canopy gaps resulting from insect outbreaks enhance the species richness, diversity and abundance of birds breeding in coniferous forests	29
Estimate canopy transpiration in larch plantations via the interactions among reference evapotranspiration, leaf area index, and soil moisture	29
Above-ground carbon stocks and timber value of old timber plantations, secondary and primary forests in southern Ghana	29
Effects of nitrogen addition on rhizospheric soil microbial communities of poplar plantations at different ages	29
Sensitivity to water stress drives differential decline and mortality dynamics of three co-occurring conifers with different drought tolerance	29
Managing existing forests can mitigate climate change	28
Climate response and drought resilience of Nothofagus obliqua secondary forests across a latitudinal gradient in south-central Chile	28
Soil ecoenzymatic stoichiometry and microbial resource limitation driven by thinning practices and season types in Larix principis-rupprechtii plantations in North China	28
Few large trees, rather than plant diversity and composition, drive the above-ground biomass stock and dynamics of temperate forests in northeast China	28
Management strategies, silvopastoral practices and socioecological drivers in traditional livestock systems in tropical dry forests: An integrated analysis	28
Moso bamboo invasion has contrasting effects on soil bacterial and fungal abundances, co-occurrence networks and their associations with enzyme activities in three broadleaved forests across subtropic	28
Severe depletion of available deep soil water induced by revegetation on the arid and semiarid Loess Plateau	28
Perspectives: Key factors determining the presence of Tree-related Microhabitats: A synthesis of potential factors at site, stand and tree scales, with perspectives for further research	28
Soil quality and mesofauna diversity relationship are modulated by woody species and seasonality in semiarid oak forest	28
Recovery of aboveground biomass, species richness and composition in tropical secondary forests in SW Costa Rica	28
Soil organic carbon fractions, C-cycling associated hydrolytic enzymes, and microbial carbon metabolism vary with stand age in Cunninghamia lanceolate (Lamb.) Hook plantations	28
Effects of intensive biomass harvesting on forest soils in the Nordic countries and the UK: A meta-analysis	28
Glyphosate remains in forest plant tissues for a decade or more	28
Response of root nutrient resorption strategies to rhizosphere soil microbial nutrient utilization along Robinia pseudoacacia plantation chronosequence	27
Mixing effects on Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) productivity along a climatic gradient across Europe	27
Impacts of tree mixtures on understory plant diversity in China	27
Regulation of soil phosphorus availability and composition during forest succession in subtropics	27
Sustainability of Canada’s forestry sector may be compromised by impending climate change	27
How does management affect soil C sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes in boreal and temperate forests? – A review	27
Tree diversity, distribution and regeneration in major forest types along an extensive elevational gradient in Indian Himalaya: Implications for sustainable forest management	27
Stand structure, biomass and dynamics of naturally regenerated and restored mangroves in Malaysia	27
Using terrestrial laser scanning for characterizing tree structural parameters and their changes under different management in a Mediterranean open woodland	27
Differences in phenolics produced by invasive Quercus rubra and native plant communities induced changes in soil microbial properties and enzymatic activity	27
Natural dynamics of temperate mountain beech-dominated primary forests in Central Europe	26
An ecological approach to climate change-informed tree species selection for reforestation	26
How forest structure varies with elevation in old growth and secondary forest in Costa Rica	26
Mapping the stock and spatial distribution of aboveground woody biomass in the native vegetation of the Brazilian Cerrado biome	26
Shifting tree species composition affects biodiversity of multiple taxa in Central European forests	26
Fire risk and severity decline with stand development in Tasmanian giant Eucalyptus forest	26
Beyond trees: Mapping total aboveground biomass density in the Brazilian savanna using high-density UAV-lidar data	26
The effect of ecological restoration methods on carbon stocks in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	26
Change in root-associated fungal communities affects soil enzymatic activities during Pinus massoniana forest development in subtropical China	26
Tree growth responses to extreme drought after mechanical thinning and prescribed fire in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest, USA	26
Stand age related differences in forest microclimate	26
Persistent changes in the horizontal and vertical canopy structure of fire-tolerant forests after severe fire as quantified using multi-temporal airborne lidar data	26
How future-proof is Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) in a global change context?	26
Tree species mixture effects on stem growth vary with stand density – An analysis based on individual tree responses	26
Sustainability of Brazilian forest concessions	26
Density-related effect of red deer browsing on palatable and unpalatable tree species and forest regeneration dynamics	26
Variation in resin flow among Maritime pine populations: Relationship with growth potential and climatic responses	25
Effects of stand density on soil microbial community composition and enzyme activities in subtropical Cunninghamia lanceolate (Lamb.) Hook plantations	25
Different sexual impacts of dioecious Populus euphratica on microbial communities and nitrogen cycle processes in natural forests	25
Canopy tree density and species influence tree regeneration patterns and woody species diversity in a longleaf pine forest	25
Elevation-dependent growth trends of forests as affected by climate warming in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	25
Landscape composition is more important than local vegetation structure for understory birds in cocoa agroforestry systems	25
Susceptibility of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) to gene silencing through RNAi provides potential as a novel management tool	25
Effects of landscape composition and site land-use intensity on secondary succession in a tropical dry forest	25
Temperature and precipitation significantly influence the interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and diazotrophs in karst ecosystems	24

Drought mitigation by thinning: Benefits from the stem to the stand along 15 years of experimental rainfall exclusion in a holm oak coppice	24
Decline in nutrient inputs from litterfall following forest plantation in subtropical China	24
Detecting the effects of logging and wildfire on forest fuel structure using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)	24
Risk assessment of forest disturbance by typhoons with heavy precipitation in northern Japan	24
Ecosystem services supply and interactions along secondary tropical dry forests succession	24
Trees grow modulated by the ecological memory of their past growth. Consequences for monitoring, modelling, and silvicultural treatment	24
Trends in active restoration of tropical dry forest: Methods, metrics, and outcomes	24
Three decades of post-logging tree community recovery in naturally regenerating and actively restored dipterocarp forest in Borneo	24
Forest clear-cuts as habitat for farmland birds and butterflies	24
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), the suitable pioneer species for afforestation of reclamation sites?	24
Thinning effects on forest evolution in Masson pine (Pinus massoniana Lamb.) conversion from pure plantations into mixed forests	24
A simple-to-use management approach to boost adaptive capacity of forests to global uncertainty	24
Soil C:N:P stoichiometry of typical coniferous (Cunninghamia lanceolata) and/or evergreen broadleaved (Phoebe bournei) plantations in south China	24
Mechanical thinning without prescribed fire moderates wildfire behavior in an Eastern Oregon, USA ponderosa pine forest	24
Drastic impoverishment of the soil seed bank in a tropical dry forest exposed to slash-and-burn agriculture	24
The outsized role of California’s largest wildfires in changing forest burn patterns and coarsening ecosystem scale	24
Patterns and drivers of deadwood quantity and variation in mid-latitude deciduous forests	24
Current and future carbon stocks of natural forests in China	23
Impacts of mountain pine beetle outbreaks on lodgepole pine forests in the Intermountain West, U.S., 2004–2019	23
Ancient trees and modern wildfires: Declining resilience to wildfire in the highly fire-adapted giant sequoia	23
Variation in height-diameter allometry of ponderosa pine along competition, climate, and species diversity gradients in the western United States	23
Interactions between climate and soil shape tree community assembly and above-ground woody biomass of tropical dry forests	23
Projecting species loss and turnover under climate change for 111 Chinese tree species	23
Spatial distribution of tree species in mountain national parks depends on geomorphology and climate	23
Chilling accumulation and photoperiod regulate rest break and bud burst in five subtropical tree species	23
Cultural values and forest dynamics: The Italian forests in the last 150 years	23
Aboveground conservation acts in synergy with belowground uptake to alleviate phosphorus deficiency caused by nitrogen addition in a larch plantation	23
Perspectives: Thirty years of triad forestry, a critical clarification of theory and recommendations for implementation and testing	23
Variability in climate-growth reaction of Robinia pseudoacacia in Eastern Europe indicates potential for acclimatisation to future climate	23
Species diversity and stand structural diversity of woody plants predominantly determine aboveground carbon stock of a dry Afromontane forest in Northern Ethiopia	23
Mangrove restoration in Colombia: Trends and lessons learned	23
Effects of tree spacing and thinning on root reinforcement in mountain forests of the European Southern Alps	23
Does individual-tree biomass growth increase continuously with tree size?	23
Eucalyptus tree stockings effect on water balance and use efficiency in subtropical sandy soil	23
Identification of drought-tolerant tree species through climate sensitivity analysis of radial growth in Central European mixed broadleaf forests	23
Regeneration capacities of woody species biodiversity and soil properties in Miombo woodland after slash-and-burn agriculture in Mozambique	23
Optimizing neighborhood-based stand spatial structure: Four cases of boreal forests	23
Northernmost European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus outbreak: Modelling tree mortality using remote sensing and climate data	23
The frequency and severity of past droughts shape the drought sensitivity of juniper trees on the Tibetan plateau	22
Do large herbivores maintain open habitats in temperate forests?	22
Quantifying regional trends in large live tree and snag availability in support of forest management	22
Contrasting successional responses of soil bacteria and fungi to post-logging burn severity	22
Biochar amendment increases tree growth in nutrient-poor, young Scots pine stands in Finland	22
Fire, flood and monodominance of Tabebuia aurea in Pantanal	22
Developing a site index model for P. Pinaster stands in NW Spain by combining bi-temporal ALS data and environmental data	22
Height growth rate of Scots pine in Central Europe increased by 29% between 1900 and 2000 due to changes in site productivity	22
Site conditions more than species identity drive fine root biomass, morphology and spatial distribution in temperate pure and mixed forests	22
Ecological restoration guided by historical reference conditions can increase resilience to climate change of southwestern U.S. Ponderosa pine forests	22
Factors controlling soil organic carbon and total nitrogen stocks following afforestation with Robinia pseudoacacia on cropland across China	22
A short-interval reburn catalyzes departures from historical structure and composition in a mesic mixed-conifer forest	22
Tree plantations replacing natural grasslands in high biodiversity areas: How do they affect the mammal assemblage?	21
Tree species identity drives soil organic carbon storage more than species mixing in major two-species mixtures (pine, oak, beech) in Europe	21
Seedling regeneration techniques affect root systems and the response of Quercus robur seedlings to water shortages	21
Bark attributes determine variation in fire resistance in resprouting tree species	21
Small gradients in salinity have large effects on stand water use in freshwater wetland forests	21
Tree species composition and soil properties in pure and mixed beech-conifer stands drive soil fungal communities	21
Why some trees are more vulnerable during catastrophic cyclone events in the Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh?	21
Winners and losers of climate warming: Declining growth in Fagus and Tilia vs. stable growth in three Quercus species in the natural beech–oak forest ecotone (western Romania)	21
Regeneration growth and crown architecture of European beech and silver fir depend on gap characteristics and light gradient in the mixed montane old-growth stands	21
Radial growth response of Pinus yunnanensis to rising temperature and drought stress on the Yunnan Plateau, southwestern China	21
Logging Amazon forest increased the severity and spread of fires during the 2015–2016 El Niño	21
Drought impacts in forest canopy and deciduous tree saplings in Central European forests	21
Canopy structure and below-canopy temperatures interact to shape seedling response to disturbance in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest	21
Effects of chicken farming on soil organic carbon fractions and fungal communities in a Lei bamboo (Phyllostachys praecox) forest in subtropical China	21
Fire frequency affects fire behavior in open savannas of the Cerrado	21
Habitat disturbance can alter forest understory bird activity patterns: A regional-scale assessment with camera-traps	21
Single dead trees matter: Small-scale canopy gaps increase the species richness, diversity and abundance of birds breeding in a temperate deciduous forest	21
Lidar biomass index: A novel solution for tree-level biomass estimation using 3D crown information	21
Climate warming predispose sessile oak forests to drought-induced tree mortality regardless of management legacies	21
Elevated temperature and CO2 interactively modulate sexual competition and ecophysiological responses of dioecious Populus cathayana	21
Survival of prescribed burning treatments to wildfire in Portugal	20
Volume increment and carbon dynamics in boreal forest when extending the rotation length towards biologically old stands	20
Tree regeneration in models of forest dynamics – Suitability to assess climate change impacts on European forests	20
Degradation of the Brazilian Cerrado: Interactions with human disturbance and environmental variables	20
The environmental drivers influencing spatio-temporal dynamics of oak defoliation and mortality in dehesas of Southern Spain	20
Age-dependence of stand biomass in managed boreal forests based on the Finnish National Forest Inventory data	20
Forest restoration and hydrology	20
Now or later? Optimal timing of mangrove rehabilitation under climate change uncertainty	20
Individual tree growth in jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest is explained by size and distance of neighbouring trees in thinned and non-thinned plots	20
Effects of long-term and large-scale ecology projects on forest dynamics in Yangtze River Basin, China	20
Planted seedling survival in a post-wildfire landscape: From experimental planting to predictive probabilistic surfaces	20
Estimating crown width in degraded forest: A two-level nonlinear mixed-effects crown width model for Dacrydium pierrei and Podocarpus imbricatus in tropical China	20
Shifting tree species composition of upland oak forests alters leaf litter structure, moisture, and flammability	20
Short-term effect of thinning on the carbon budget of young and middle-aged Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stands	20
Disturbance-based silviculture for habitat diversification: Effects on forest structure, dynamics, and carbon storage	20
Post-fire landscape evaluations in Eastern Washington, USA: Assessing the work of contemporary wildfires	20
Exotic goats do not affect the seed bank but reduce seedling survival in a human-modified landscape of Caatinga dry forest	20
Regulation of stand density alters forest structure and soil moisture during afforestation with Robinia pseudoacacia L. and Pinus tabulaeformis Carr. On the Loess Plateau	20
Changes in forest structure values along the natural cycle and different management strategies in Nothofagus antarctica forests	20
Development rates and persistence of the microhabitats initiated by disease and injuries in live trees: A review	20
Agroforestry orchards support greater avian biodiversity than monoculture oil palm and rubber tree plantations	20
Increasing climate sensitivity of subtropical conifers along an aridity gradient	19
Population dynamics of ash across the eastern USA following invasion by emerald ash borer	19
The effect of coppicing on insect biodiversity. Small-scale mosaics of successional stages drive community turnover	19
Mature forests hold maximum live biomass stocks	19