Forest Ecology and Management

Papers
(The TQCC of Forest Ecology and Management is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Devastating outbreak of bark beetles in the Czech Republic: Drivers, impacts, and management implications159
The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe130
The impact of fire on soil-dwelling biota: A review125
Decomposition and transformations along the continuum from litter to soil organic matter in forest soils112
Individual tree detection and species classification of Amazonian palms using UAV images and deep learning112
Terrain gradient variations in ecosystem services of different vegetation types in mountainous regions: Vegetation resource conservation and sustainable development105
Mechanisms of forest resilience103
Forest fire susceptibility mapping via multi-criteria decision analysis techniques for Mugla, Turkey: A comparative analysis of VIKOR and TOPSIS97
What is the potential for replacing monocultures with mixed-species stands to enhance ecosystem services in boreal forests in Fennoscandia?95
Early detection of pine wilt disease using deep learning algorithms and UAV-based multispectral imagery88
Tamm review: Leaf Area Index (LAI) is both a determinant and a consequence of important processes in vegetation canopies79
Application of conventional UAV-based high-throughput object detection to the early diagnosis of pine wilt disease by deep learning79
Soil organic matter, nitrogen and pH driven change in bacterial community following forest conversion67
Remote sensing of temperate and boreal forest phenology: A review of progress, challenges and opportunities in the intercomparison of in-situ and satellite phenological metrics67
Economic valuation of ecosystem services from secondary tropical forests: trade-offs and implications for policy making66
The importance of Indigenous cultural burning in forested regions of the Pacific West, USA65
Impacts of climate change scenarios on European ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior L.) in Turkey64
Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests60
Tamm review: Does salvage logging mitigate subsequent forest disturbances?57
Open forest ecosystems: An excluded state57
Tamm review: The effects of prescribed fire on wildfire regimes and impacts: A framework for comparison55
Bees in the trees: Diverse spring fauna in temperate forest edge canopies54
Variable thinning and prescribed fire influence tree mortality and growth during and after a severe drought52
Ecological restoration projects did not increase the value of all ecosystem services in Northeast China52
Satellite evidence for China's leading role in restoring vegetation productivity over global karst ecosystems51
Change in forest condition: Characterizing non-stand replacing disturbances using time series satellite imagery51
Tamm Review: Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States50
Forest thinning increases soil carbon stocks in China49
Functional traits indicate a continuum of tree drought strategies across a soil water availability gradient in a tropical dry forest48
Mass fire behavior created by extensive tree mortality and high tree density not predicted by operational fire behavior models in the southern Sierra Nevada48
Impacts and uncertainties of climate change projections on Eucalyptus plantations productivity across Brazil48
Climate and large-sized trees, but not diversity, drive above-ground biomass in subtropical forests46
Biological control of emerging forest diseases: How can we move from dreams to reality?46
Influence of climatic variations on production, biomass and density of wood in eucalyptus clones of different species45
Forests of the future: Climate change impacts and implications for carbon storage in the Pacific Northwest, USA45
The course of tree growth. Theory and reality45
Mixing with broad-leaved trees shapes the rhizosphere soil fungal communities of coniferous tree species in subtropical forests44
Litter manipulation effects on microbial communities and enzymatic activities vary with soil depth in a subtropical Chinese fir plantation44
Dual inoculations of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria boost drought resistance and essential oil yield of common myrtle44
Effects of different vegetation restoration on soil nutrients, enzyme activities, and microbial communities in degraded karst landscapes in southwest China44
Effects of forest harvesting and biomass removal on soil carbon and nitrogen: Two complementary meta-analyses44
The negative effect of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) monoculture plantations on soil physicochemical properties, microbial biomass, fungal communities, and enzymatic activities43
Nitrous oxide emissions of undrained, forestry-drained, and rewetted boreal peatlands43
California spotted owl habitat selection in a fire-managed landscape suggests conservation benefit of restoring historical fire regimes43
Mixed vs. monospecific mountain forests in response to climate change: structural and growth perspectives of Norway spruce and European beech43
Fire from policy, human interventions, or biophysical factors? Temporal–spatial patterns of forest fire in southwestern China43
The effects of nitrogen addition on soil organic carbon decomposition and microbial C-degradation functional genes abundance in a Pinus tabulaeformis forest43
A global synthesis on the effects of thinning on hydrological processes: Implications for forest management43
Predicting potential mangrove distributions at the global northern distribution margin using an ecological niche model: Determining conservation and reforestation involvement42
Irrigation management in poplar (Populus spp.) plantations: A review42
Stand structure determines aboveground biomass across temperate forest types and species mixture along a local-scale elevational gradient41
Non-native Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) in Central Europe: Ecology, performance and nature conservation41
Growing stock monitoring by European National Forest Inventories: Historical origins, current methods and harmonisation41
Biochar application increased ecosystem carbon sequestration capacity in a Moso bamboo forest41
Resprouting drives successional pathways and the resilience of Caatinga dry forest in human-modified landscapes41
Tree species effects on topsoil carbon stock and concentration are mediated by tree species type, mycorrhizal association, and N-fixing ability at the global scale40
Cumulative effects of multiple biodiversity attributes and abiotic factors on ecosystem multifunctionality in the Jinsha River valley of southwestern China40
Comparison of field survey and remote sensing techniques for detection of bark beetle-infested trees40
Tree, stand, and landscape factors contributing to hurricane damage in a coastal plain forest: Post-hurricane assessment in a longleaf pine landscape40
High-severity wildfire reduces richness and alters composition of ectomycorrhizal fungi in low-severity adapted ponderosa pine forests40
A random forest model for basal area increment predictions from national forest inventory data39
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 danger38
The impact of land-use legacies and recent management on natural disturbance susceptibility in mountain forests38
Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity38
A history of recurrent, low-severity fire without fire exclusion in southeastern pine savannas, USA38
Modeling fuel loads dynamics and fire spread probability in the Brazilian Cerrado37
Forest water-use efficiency: Effects of climate change and management on the coupling of carbon and water processes37
How does management affect soil C sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes in boreal and temperate forests? – A review36
The effects of forest management on water quality36
Natural disturbances risks in European Boreal and Temperate forests and their links to climate change – A review of modelling approaches36
Reducing rotation age to address increasing disturbances in Central Europe: Potential and limitations36
Effects of intensive management practices on rhizosphere soil properties, root growth, and nutrient uptake in Moso bamboo plantations in subtropical China36
Continuous-cover forestry maintains soil fungal communities in Norway spruce dominated boreal forests35
Assessing the effects of thinning on stem growth allocation of individual Scots pine trees35
How C:N:P stoichiometry in soils and plants responds to succession in Robinia pseudoacacia forests on the Loess Plateau, China35
Managing existing forests can mitigate climate change34
Topographic position amplifies consequences of short-interval stand-replacing fires on postfire tree establishment in subalpine conifer forests34
Bark stripping, the crucial factor affecting stem rot development and timber production of Norway spruce forests in Central Europe34
Estimate canopy transpiration in larch plantations via the interactions among reference evapotranspiration, leaf area index, and soil moisture34
Rapid and surprising dieback of Utah juniper in the southwestern USA due to acute drought stress34
Temporal changes in Mediterranean forest ecosystem services are driven by stand development, rather than by climate-related disturbances34
Phosphite spray for the control of oak decline induced by Phytophthora in Europe34
How drought stress becomes visible upon detecting tree shape using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)33
How future-proof is Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) in a global change context?33
A generalized nonlinear mixed-effects height–diameter model for Norway spruce in mixed-uneven aged stands33
Understory vegetation dynamics of Chinese fir plantations and natural secondary forests in subtropical China33
Increase of soil nitrogen availability and recycling with stand age of Chinese-fir plantations33
Effects of diversity, climate and litter on soil organic carbon storage in subtropical forests33
Tamm Review: Ecological principles to guide post-fire forest landscape management in the Inland Pacific and Northern Rocky Mountain regions33
A multi-point aggregation trend of the outbreak of pine wilt disease in China over the past 20 years33
Invasive red oak (Quercus rubra L.) modifies soil physicochemical properties and forest understory vegetation32
The influence of birch trees (Betula spp.) on soil environment – A review32
Characterizing recent bark beetle-caused tree mortality in the western United States from aerial surveys32
Basal area increment models accounting for climate and mixture for Austrian tree species32
Ecosystem-level carbon stocks and sequestration rates in mangroves in the Cananéia-Iguape lagoon estuarine system, southeastern Brazil32
A comparative assessment of the vertical distribution of forest components using full-waveform airborne, discrete airborne and discrete terrestrial laser scanning data32
Severe depletion of available deep soil water induced by revegetation on the arid and semiarid Loess Plateau31
Glyphosate remains in forest plant tissues for a decade or more31
Airborne lidar provides reliable estimates of canopy base height and canopy bulk density in southwestern ponderosa pine forests31
Influence of nitrogen addition on the functional diversity and biomass of fine roots in warm-temperate and subtropical forests31
Effects of nitrogen addition on rhizospheric soil microbial communities of poplar plantations at different ages31
Above-ground carbon stocks and timber value of old timber plantations, secondary and primary forests in southern Ghana31
Transition from N to P limited soil nutrients over time since restoration in degraded subtropical broadleaved mixed forests31
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 subtropic30
Soil ecoenzymatic stoichiometry and microbial resource limitation driven by thinning practices and season types in Larix principis-rupprechtii plantations in North China30
Few large trees, rather than plant diversity and composition, drive the above-ground biomass stock and dynamics of temperate forests in northeast China30
Climate response and drought resilience of Nothofagus obliqua secondary forests across a latitudinal gradient in south-central Chile30
Change in root-associated fungal communities affects soil enzymatic activities during Pinus massoniana forest development in subtropical China30
Effects of intensive biomass harvesting on forest soils in the Nordic countries and the UK: A meta-analysis30
Tree species mixture effects on stem growth vary with stand density – An analysis based on individual tree responses30
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 conve30
Shifting tree species composition affects biodiversity of multiple taxa in Central European forests30
Determinants of aboveground biomass in forests across three climatic zones in China30
Mapping the stock and spatial distribution of aboveground woody biomass in the native vegetation of the Brazilian Cerrado biome29
Differences in phenolics produced by invasive Quercus rubra and native plant communities induced changes in soil microbial properties and enzymatic activity29
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 forests29
Regulation of soil phosphorus availability and composition during forest succession in subtropics29
Fire risk and severity decline with stand development in Tasmanian giant Eucalyptus forest29
Sensitivity to water stress drives differential decline and mortality dynamics of three co-occurring conifers with different drought tolerance29
Tree diversity, distribution and regeneration in major forest types along an extensive elevational gradient in Indian Himalaya: Implications for sustainable forest management29
Soil quality and mesofauna diversity relationship are modulated by woody species and seasonality in semiarid oak forest29
An ecological approach to climate change-informed tree species selection for reforestation29
Impacts of tree mixtures on understory plant diversity in China29
Recovery of aboveground biomass, species richness and composition in tropical secondary forests in SW Costa Rica28
Density-related effect of red deer browsing on palatable and unpalatable tree species and forest regeneration dynamics28
Landscape composition is more important than local vegetation structure for understory birds in cocoa agroforestry systems28
Regeneration capacities of woody species biodiversity and soil properties in Miombo woodland after slash-and-burn agriculture in Mozambique28
Soil organic carbon fractions, C-cycling associated hydrolytic enzymes, and microbial carbon metabolism vary with stand age in Cunninghamia lanceolate (Lamb.) Hook plantations28
Beyond trees: Mapping total aboveground biomass density in the Brazilian savanna using high-density UAV-lidar data28
The effect of ecological restoration methods on carbon stocks in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest28
Sustainability of Canada’s forestry sector may be compromised by impending climate change28
Persistent changes in the horizontal and vertical canopy structure of fire-tolerant forests after severe fire as quantified using multi-temporal airborne lidar data28
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 research28
Stand structure, biomass and dynamics of naturally regenerated and restored mangroves in Malaysia27
Response of root nutrient resorption strategies to rhizosphere soil microbial nutrient utilization along Robinia pseudoacacia plantation chronosequence27
Mechanical thinning without prescribed fire moderates wildfire behavior in an Eastern Oregon, USA ponderosa pine forest27
Different sexual impacts of dioecious Populus euphratica on microbial communities and nitrogen cycle processes in natural forests27
Thinning effects on forest evolution in Masson pine (Pinus massoniana Lamb.) conversion from pure plantations into mixed forests27
Using terrestrial laser scanning for characterizing tree structural parameters and their changes under different management in a Mediterranean open woodland27
Stand age related differences in forest microclimate27
Perspectives: Thirty years of triad forestry, a critical clarification of theory and recommendations for implementation and testing27
Management strategies, silvopastoral practices and socioecological drivers in traditional livestock systems in tropical dry forests: An integrated analysis27
Canopy tree density and species influence tree regeneration patterns and woody species diversity in a longleaf pine forest27
Northernmost European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus outbreak: Modelling tree mortality using remote sensing and climate data27
Temperature and precipitation significantly influence the interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and diazotrophs in karst ecosystems26
Eucalyptus tree stockings effect on water balance and use efficiency in subtropical sandy soil26
Effects of stand density on soil microbial community composition and enzyme activities in subtropical Cunninghamia lanceolate (Lamb.) Hook plantations26
Decline in nutrient inputs from litterfall following forest plantation in subtropical China26
Projecting species loss and turnover under climate change for 111 Chinese tree species26
Variation in resin flow among Maritime pine populations: Relationship with growth potential and climatic responses26
Elevation-dependent growth trends of forests as affected by climate warming in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau26
Tree growth responses to extreme drought after mechanical thinning and prescribed fire in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest, USA26
Optimizing neighborhood-based stand spatial structure: Four cases of boreal forests26
Effects of landscape composition and site land-use intensity on secondary succession in a tropical dry forest26
Sustainability of Brazilian forest concessions26
Mixing effects on Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) productivity along a climatic gradient across Europe26
Soil C:N:P stoichiometry of typical coniferous (Cunninghamia lanceolata) and/or evergreen broadleaved (Phoebe bournei) plantations in south China26
Natural dynamics of temperate mountain beech-dominated primary forests in Central Europe26
The outsized role of California’s largest wildfires in changing forest burn patterns and coarsening ecosystem scale26
Developing a site index model for P. Pinaster stands in NW Spain by combining bi-temporal ALS data and environmental data25
Current and future carbon stocks of natural forests in China25
Biochar amendment increases tree growth in nutrient-poor, young Scots pine stands in Finland25
A simple-to-use management approach to boost adaptive capacity of forests to global uncertainty25
Features predisposing forest to bark beetle outbreaks and their dynamics during drought25
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), the suitable pioneer species for afforestation of reclamation sites?25
Fire frequency affects fire behavior in open savannas of the Cerrado25
Trees grow modulated by the ecological memory of their past growth. Consequences for monitoring, modelling, and silvicultural treatment25
The frequency and severity of past droughts shape the drought sensitivity of juniper trees on the Tibetan plateau25
Susceptibility of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) to gene silencing through RNAi provides potential as a novel management tool25
Species diversity and stand structural diversity of woody plants predominantly determine aboveground carbon stock of a dry Afromontane forest in Northern Ethiopia25
Effects of tree spacing and thinning on root reinforcement in mountain forests of the European Southern Alps25
Does individual-tree biomass growth increase continuously with tree size?25
Ancient trees and modern wildfires: Declining resilience to wildfire in the highly fire-adapted giant sequoia25
Drought mitigation by thinning: Benefits from the stem to the stand along 15 years of experimental rainfall exclusion in a holm oak coppice25
Agroforestry orchards support greater avian biodiversity than monoculture oil palm and rubber tree plantations24
Impacts of mountain pine beetle outbreaks on lodgepole pine forests in the Intermountain West, U.S., 2004–201924
Cultural values and forest dynamics: The Italian forests in the last 150 years24
Fire, flood and monodominance of Tabebuia aurea in Pantanal24
Interactions between climate and soil shape tree community assembly and above-ground woody biomass of tropical dry forests24
Three decades of post-logging tree community recovery in naturally regenerating and actively restored dipterocarp forest in Borneo24
Forest clear-cuts as habitat for farmland birds and butterflies24
Forest restoration and hydrology24
Patterns and drivers of deadwood quantity and variation in mid-latitude deciduous forests24
Tree species traits and mycorrhizal association shape soil microbial communities via litter quality and species mediated soil properties24
Detecting the effects of logging and wildfire on forest fuel structure using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)24
Tree species identity drives soil organic carbon storage more than species mixing in major two-species mixtures (pine, oak, beech) in Europe24
Regulation of stand density alters forest structure and soil moisture during afforestation with Robinia pseudoacacia L. and Pinus tabulaeformis Carr. On the Loess Plateau24
Drastic impoverishment of the soil seed bank in a tropical dry forest exposed to slash-and-burn agriculture24
Ecosystem services supply and interactions along secondary tropical dry forests succession24
Chilling accumulation and photoperiod regulate rest break and bud burst in five subtropical tree species24
Aboveground conservation acts in synergy with belowground uptake to alleviate phosphorus deficiency caused by nitrogen addition in a larch plantation24
Variation in height-diameter allometry of ponderosa pine along competition, climate, and species diversity gradients in the western United States24
Mangrove restoration in Colombia: Trends and lessons learned24
Risk assessment of forest disturbance by typhoons with heavy precipitation in northern Japan24
Variability in climate-growth reaction of Robinia pseudoacacia in Eastern Europe indicates potential for acclimatisation to future climate23
Changes in forest structure values along the natural cycle and different management strategies in Nothofagus antarctica forests23
Spatial distribution of tree species in mountain national parks depends on geomorphology and climate23
Lidar biomass index: A novel solution for tree-level biomass estimation using 3D crown information23
Do large herbivores maintain open habitats in temperate forests?23
Identification of drought-tolerant tree species through climate sensitivity analysis of radial growth in Central European mixed broadleaf forests23
The introduction of Phoebe bournei into Cunninghamia lanceolata monoculture plantations increased microbial network complexity and shifted keystone taxa23
Shifting tree species composition of upland oak forests alters leaf litter structure, moisture, and flammability23
Age-dependence of stand biomass in managed boreal forests based on the Finnish National Forest Inventory data23
Soil moisture influences on Sierra Nevada dead fuel moisture content and fire risks23
Effects of long-term and large-scale ecology projects on forest dynamics in Yangtze River Basin, China23
Small gradients in salinity have large effects on stand water use in freshwater wetland forests23
Drought impacts in forest canopy and deciduous tree saplings in Central European forests23
Quantifying regional trends in large live tree and snag availability in support of forest management23
Factors controlling soil organic carbon and total nitrogen stocks following afforestation with Robinia pseudoacacia on cropland across China23
Contrasting successional responses of soil bacteria and fungi to post-logging burn severity23
Radial growth response of Pinus yunnanensis to rising temperature and drought stress on the Yunnan Plateau, southwestern China23
Tree species composition and soil properties in pure and mixed beech-conifer stands drive soil fungal communities23
Climate warming predispose sessile oak forests to drought-induced tree mortality regardless of management legacies23
Seedling regeneration techniques affect root systems and the response of Quercus robur seedlings to water shortages22
Single dead trees matter: Small-scale canopy gaps increase the species richness, diversity and abundance of birds breeding in a temperate deciduous forest22
Elevated temperature and CO2 interactively modulate sexual competition and ecophysiological responses of dioecious Populus cathayana22
Planted seedling survival in a post-wildfire landscape: From experimental planting to predictive probabilistic surfaces22
The effect of coppicing on insect biodiversity. Small-scale mosaics of successional stages drive community turnover22
Height growth rate of Scots pine in Central Europe increased by 29% between 1900 and 2000 due to changes in site productivity22
Habitat disturbance can alter forest understory bird activity patterns: A regional-scale assessment with camera-traps22
Individual tree growth in jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest is explained by size and distance of neighbouring trees in thinned and non-thinned plots22
Logging Amazon forest increased the severity and spread of fires during the 2015–2016 El Niño22
Degradation of the Brazilian Cerrado: Interactions with human disturbance and environmental variables22
Tree plantations replacing natural grasslands in high biodiversity areas: How do they affect the mammal assemblage?22
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)22
Dynamic changes in mangroves of the largest delta in northern Beibu Gulf, China: Reasons and causes22
Site conditions more than species identity drive fine root biomass, morphology and spatial distribution in temperate pure and mixed forests22
Climate and genotype influences on carbon fluxes and partitioning in Eucalyptus plantations22
Ecological restoration guided by historical reference conditions can increase resilience to climate change of southwestern U.S. Ponderosa pine forests22
Effects of chicken farming on soil organic carbon fractions and fungal communities in a Lei bamboo (Phyllostachys praecox) forest in subtropical China22
A short-interval reburn catalyzes departures from historical structure and composition in a mesic mixed-conifer forest22
The environmental drivers influencing spatio-temporal dynamics of oak defoliation and mortality in dehesas of Southern Spain21
Plant species composition and diversity along successional gradients in arid and semi-arid regions of China21
Climate change impact on tree mortality differs with tree social status21
Litter trait driven dampening of flammability following deciduous forest community shifts in eastern North America21
Survival of prescribed burning treatments to wildfire in Portugal21
Microclimate and land surface temperature in a biodiversity enriched oil palm plantation21
Long-term ecological trends of small secondary forests of the atlantic forest hotspot: A 30-year study case21
Why some trees are more vulnerable during catastrophic cyclone events in the Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh?21
Carbon allocation dynamics in conifers and broadleaved tree species revealed by pulse labeling and mass balance21
Regeneration and succession: A 50-year gap dynamic in temperate secondary forests, Northeast China21
Bark attributes determine variation in fire resistance in resprouting tree species21
Species-specific growth and transpiration response to changing environmental conditions in floodplain forest21
Development rates and persistence of the microhabitats initiated by disease and injuries in live trees: A review21
Estimating crown width in degraded forest: A two-level nonlinear mixed-effects crown width model for Dacrydium pierrei and Podocarpus imbricatus in tropical China21
Short-term effect of thinning on the carbon budget of young and middle-aged Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stands21
Wild bees benefit from structural complexity enhancement in a forest restoration experiment21
Contrasting water use of two Eucalyptus clones across a precipitation and temperature gradient in Brazil21
Long-term growth trends of Abies delavayi and its physiological responses to a warming climate in the Cangshan Mountains, southwestern China21
Canopy structure and below-canopy temperatures interact to shape seedling response to disturbance in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest21
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