Forest Ecosystems

Article	Citations
The role of net ecosystem productivity and of inventories in climate change research: the need for “net ecosystem productivity with harvest”, NEPH	44
Exploring willingness-to-pay for the restoration and maintenance of reserved forests in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana	36
Expected adult lifespan in tropical trees: Long-term matrix demography in a large plot	35
Developing allometric equations to estimate forest biomass for tree species categories based on phylogenetic relationships	34
Vegetation C–N–P accumulation and allocation patterns at the community level in early restored plantations in the loess hilly-gully region	34
Prediction of the joint impacts of sea level rise and land development on distribution patterns of mangrove communities	31
Can a multistage approach improve individual tree mortality predictions across the complex mixed-species and managed forests of eastern North America?	31
Spatial-temporal variations and driving factors of soil organic carbon in forest ecosystems of Northeast China	26
Outside Front Cover	26
The ecological scale mediates whether trees experience drought legacies in radial growth	25
Words apart: Standardizing forestry terms and definitions across European biodiversity studies	25
Effects of forest canopy density and epixylic vegetation on nutrient concentrations in decaying logs of a subalpine fir forest	25
Seasonal snow cover patterns explain alpine treeline elevation better than temperature at regional scale	24
Do root modules still exist after they die?	24
Modeling the effect of stand and site characteristics on the probability of mistletoe infestation in Scots pine stands using remote sensing data	22
Retention of harvest residues promotes the accumulation of topsoil organic carbon by increasing particulate organic carbon in a Chinese fir plantation	20
Enhancing wood efficiency through comprehensive wood flow analysis: Methodology and strategic insights	19
Competitive effect, but not competitive response, varies along a climatic gradient depending on tree species identity	18
Stand biomass of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantations benefits from high density monocultures in the boreal zone	18
Carbon allocation in Picea jezoensis: Adaptation strategies of a non-treeline species at its upper elevation limit	18
A bibliometric analysis using machine learning to track paradigm shifts and analytical advances in forest ecology and forestry journal publications from 2010 to 2022	18
Root overlap and allocation of above- and belowground growth of European beech in pure and mixed stands of Douglas fir and Norway spruce	18
Mapping regional forest management units: a road-based framework in Southeastern Coastal Plain and Piedmont	17
Trade-offs among fine-root phosphorus-acquisition strategies of 15 tropical woody species	17
Patterns and driving factors of leaf C, N, and P stoichiometry in two forest types with different stand ages in a mid-subtropical zone	17

Land-use legacies affect the composition and distribution of tree species and their belowground functions in a succession from old-field to mature temperate forest	17
Geoecological parameters indicate discrepancies between potential and actual forest area in the forest-steppe of Central Mongolia	17
Forest land use discontinuity and northern red oak Quercus rubra introduction change biomass allocation and life strategy of lingonberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea	17
Ecosystem service multifunctionality of mixed conifer-broad-leaved forests under climate change and forest management based on matrix growth modelling	17
Drivers of tree demographic trade-offs in a temperate forest	16
Novel evidence from Taxus fuana forests for niche-neutral process assembling community	15
Impact of Robinia pseudoacacia stand conversion on soil properties and bacterial community composition in Mount Tai, China	15
Ground-based/UAV-LiDAR data fusion for quantitative structure modeling and tree parameter retrieval in subtropical planted forest	15
Effects of lag time in forest restoration and management	15
Strong controls of daily minimum temperature on the autumn photosynthetic phenology of subtropical vegetation in China	15
Effects of functional phylogeny of light-response-related orthologous genes on seedling survival in a subtropical forest	15
Responses of soil CH4 fluxes to nitrogen addition in two tropical montane rainforests in southern China	15
Soil chemical fertility change over four decades in the Morvan Mountains and influence of tree species (Burgundy, France)	15
Combining WV-2 images and tree physiological factors to detect damage stages of Populus gansuensis by Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) at the tree level	15
Tree-based ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality of church forests and their agricultural matrix near Lake Tana, Ethiopia	14
Topography modulates effects of nitrogen deposition on microbial resource limitation in a nitrogen-saturated subtropical forest	14
Eight decades of compositional change in a managed northern hardwood landscape	14
Deadwood affects the soil organic matter fractions and enzyme activity of soils in altitude gradient of temperate forests	14
Tree growth is more limited by drought in rear-edge forests most of the times	13
Assessing Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 spectral-temporal features for mapping tree species of northern plantation forests in Heilongjiang Province, China	13
Analysing changes in spatial point patterns: A proposal using data from a forest thinning experiment	13
Elevation gradient distribution of indices of tree population in a montane forest: The role of leaf traits and the environment	13
Spatio-temporal dynamics of future aboveground carbon stocks in natural forests of China	13
Effects of root dominate over aboveground litter on soil microbial biomass in global forest ecosystems	13
Complexity responses of Rhododendron species to climate change in China reveal their urgent need for protection	13
Forest management causes soil carbon loss by reducing particulate organic carbon in Guangxi, Southern China	13
New approach to calculating tree height at the regional scale	11
Environmental and biological factors affecting the abundance of Prosopis flexuosa saplings in the central-west Monte of Argentina	11
Impacts of oak deforestation and rainfed cultivation on soil redistribution processes across hillslopes using 137Cs techniques	11
An improved area-based approach for estimating plot-level tree DBH from airborne LiDAR data	11
Black locust coppice stands homogenize soil diazotrophic communities by reducing soil net nitrogen mineralization	11
Modeling of cold-temperate tree Pinus koraiensis (Pinaceae) distribution in the Asia-Pacific region: Climate change impact	11
Plant–rodent interactions after a heavy snowfall decrease plant regeneration and soil carbon emission in an old-growth forest	10
Ice storm damage to oak forests in subtropical China	10
Spatiotemporal dynamics and geo-environmental factors influencing mangrove gross primary productivity during 2000–2020 in Gaoqiao Mangrove Reserve, China	10
Functional trait profiles and diversity of trees regenerating in disturbed tropical forests and agroforests in Indonesia	10
Stabilizing forest productivity and resilience at multiple scales	9
Functional diversity dominates positive species mixture effects on ecosystem multifunctionality in subtropical plantations	9
Prediction of tree crown width in natural mixed forests using deep learning algorithm	9
Variability and determinants of vascular plant species composition in patches of old managed oak forest stands dispersed within Scots pine monocultures	9
Grouping tree species to estimate basal area increment in temperate multispecies forests in Durango, Mexico	9
Examining approaches for modeling individual tree growth response to thinning in Norway spruce	9
Tree structure and diversity shape the biomass of primary temperate mountain forests	9
Fungal diversity and community composition responses to the reintroduction of fire in a non-managed Mediterranean shrubland ecosystem	9
Fire and retention island remnants have similar deadwood carbon stock a decade after disturbances in boreal forests of Alberta	9
The interaction between temperature and precipitation on the potential distribution range of Betula ermanii in the alpine treeline ecotone on the Changbai Mountain	9
Six forests in one: Tree species diversity in the Bosque Protector Chongón Colonche, a lowland mountain range in coastal Ecuadorian	9
Forest disturbances and the attribution derived from yearly Landsat time series over 1990–2020 in the Hengduan Mountains Region of Southwest China	9
Trees species’ dispersal mode and habitat heterogeneity shape negative density dependence in a temperate forest	9
Neighborhood effects on tree growth in a Fagus sylvatica - Abies alba forest following an ice storm	9

Assessing the effect of invasive organisms on forests under information uncertainty: The case of pine wood nematode in continental Europe	8
The control of external and internal canopy structural heterogeneity on diversity and productivity relationship in a subtropical forest	8
Early response of understory vegetation to the mass dieback of Norway spruce in the European lowland temperate forest	8
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition affects forest plant and soil system carbon:nitrogen:phosphorus stoichiometric flexibility: A meta-analysis	8
Effect of the rotation frequency in the eucalypt plantations	8
No generality in biodiversity-productivity relationships along elevation in temperate and subtropical forest landscapes	8
Quantifying foliar trait variation and covariation in sun and shade leaves using leaf spectroscopy in eastern North America	8
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	8
Differential modulation of crown allometry and stem growth at gap edges in five European tree species by drought conditions	7
Drivers of tree regeneration in coniferous monocultures during conversion to mixed forests in Central Europe – Implications for forest restoration management	7
Leading directions and effective distance of larch offspring dispersal at the upper treeline in the Northern and Polar Urals, Russia	7
Automated registration of wide-baseline point clouds in forests using discrete overlap search	7
Polypore funga and species diversity in tropical forest ecosystems of Africa, America and Asia, and a comparison with temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere	7
Evaluating soil acidification risk and its effects on biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in the drylands of China	7
Mature stand developmental stage has ceased to constitute the most suitable habitat for the capercaillie in the Augustów Forest, Poland	7
Different responses of soil respiration and its components to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in a subtropical secondary forest	7
The diameter of beech snags is an important factor for saproxylic beetle richness: Implications for forest management and conservation	7
The changes in soil organic carbon stock and quality across a subalpine forest successional series	7
What diameter? What height? Influence of measures of average tree size on area-based allometric volume relationships	7
How can the forest sector mitigate climate change in a changing climate? Case studies of boreal and northern temperate forests in eastern Canada	7
A comparison of polypore funga and species composition in forest ecosystems of China, North America, and Europe	7
Long-term forest damage due to an extreme weather event: an ice storm mediated by elevation causes tree breakage in sub-tropical China	6
Moso bamboo expansion decreased soil heterotrophic respiration but increased arbuscular mycorrhizal mycelial respiration in a subtropical broadleaved forest	6
Linkage of microbial living communities and residues to soil organic carbon accumulation along a forest restoration gradient in southern China	6
Gap edge canopy buffering of throughfall deposition in a subalpine natural forest	6
Effects of harvest intensity on the marketable organ yield, growth and reproduction of non-timber forest products (NTFPs): implication for conservation and sustainable utilization of NTFPs	6
Stand-level biomass models for predicting C stock for the main Spanish pine species	6
An approximate point-based alternative for the estimation of variance under big BAF sampling	6
Diversity of plants and mammals as indicators of the effects of land management types in woodlands	6
Forest height mapping using inventory and multi-source satellite data over Hunan Province in southern China	6
The anatomical structure of woody plants in arid habitats is closely related to nonstructural carbohydrates storage	6
Tree sapling vitality and recovery following the unprecedented 2018 drought in central Europe	6
A geographical similarity-based sampling method of non-fire point data for spatial prediction of forest fires	6
Impact of nitrogen input from biosolids application on carbon sequestration in a Pinus radiata forest	6
Growth plasticity of conifers did not avoid declining resilience to soil and atmospheric droughts during the 20th century	6
Contrast in vulnerability to freezing-induced xylem embolism contributes to divergence in spring phenology between diffuse- and ring-porous temperate trees	6
Soil carbon and nutrient stocks under Scots pine plantations in comparison to European beech forests: a paired-plot study across forests with different management history and precipitation regimes	6
Nutrient retranslocation strategies associated with dieback of Pinus species in a semiarid sandy region of Northeast China	5
Legacy effects of historical woodland changes on contemporary plant functional composition	5
Different mechanisms underlying divergent responses of autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration to long-term throughfall reduction in a warm-temperate oak forest	5
Influence of climate fluctuations on Pinus palustris growth and drought resilience	5
Disparities in tree mortality among plant functional types (PFTs) in a temperate forest: Insights into size-dependent and PFT-specific patterns	5
Tree allometry responses to competition and complementarity in mixed-species plantations of Betula alnoides	5
Subtropical forest macro-decomposers rapidly transfer litter carbon and nitrogen into soil mineral-associated organic matter	5
Do forest health threats affect upland oak regeneration and recruitment? Advance reproduction is a key co-morbidity	5
Effect of thinning intensity on the stem CO2 efflux of Larix principis-rupprechtii Mayr	5
Forest composition and red oak (Quercus sp.) response to elevation gradients across greentree reservoirs	5
Once upon a time biomass burning in the western Alps: Nesting effects of climate and local drivers on long-term subalpine fires	5
Encroachment drives facilitation at alpine shrublines	5
Multiple forest structural elements are needed to promote beetle biomass, diversity and abundance	5
Retrieving chlorophyll content and equivalent water thickness of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) forests under Pantana phyllostachysae Chao-induced stress from Sentinel-2A/B images in a multiple	5
A guide for selecting the appropriate plot design to measure ungulate browsing	5
Effects of stand features and soil enzyme activity on spontaneous pedunculate oak regeneration in Scots pine dominated stands – implication for forest management	5
Mapping species assemblages of tropical forests at different hierarchical levels based on multivariate regression trees	5
Ecological niche modeling of the main forest-forming species in the Caucasus	5
Understory seedlings of Quercus mongolica survive by phenological escape	5
Conversion of Andean montane forest to exotic forest plantation modifies soil physicochemical properties in the buffer zone of Ecuador's Podocarpus National Park	5
Habitat heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate influences on seedling survival in a temperate forest	4
How topography and neighbor shape the fate of trees in subtropical forest restoration: Environmental filtering and resource competition drive natural regeneration	4
Book review “Wattles: Australian Acacia species around the world” by David M. Richardson, Johannes J. Le Roux and Elizabete Marchante	4
Effects of phosphorus resorption on bioactive phosphorus of different-aged Pinus massoniana plantations	4
Addressing nonresponse bias in forest inventory change estimation using response homogeneity classifications	4
A multi-purpose National Forest Inventory in Bangladesh: design, operationalisation and key results	4
Immediate and legacy effects of snow exclusion on soil fungal diversity and community composition	4
Modifying regeneration strategies classification to enhance the understanding of dominant species growth in fire-prone forest in Southwest China	4
Resilience and response: Unveiling the impacts of extreme droughts on forests through integrated dendrochronological and remote sensing analyses	4
Drivers of spatial structure in thinned forests	4
Wood substitution potential in greenhouse gas emission reduction–review on current state and application of displacement factors	4
Effects of local neighbourhood diversity on crown structure and productivity of individual trees in mature mixed-species forests	4
Using GEDI lidar data and airborne laser scanning to assess height growth dynamics in fast-growing species: a showcase in Spain	4
A tree detection method based on trunk point cloud section in dense plantation forest using drone LiDAR data	4
Phosphorus limitation on CO2 fertilization effect in tropical forests informed by a coupled biogeochemical model	4
Short lifespan and ‘prime period’ of carbon sequestration call for multi-ages in dryland tree plantations	4
The 2/3 scaling of twig nitrogen to phosphorus in woody plants	4
Biochar amendments increase soil organic carbon storage and decrease global warming potentials of soil CH4 and N2O under N addition in a subtropical Moso bamboo plantation	4
Evaluating and quantifying the effect of various spruce budworm intervention strategies on forest carbon dynamics in Atlantic Canada	3
Prediction of the global potential geographical distribution of Hylurgus ligniperda using a maximum entropy model	3
Diversity of click beetles in managed nonnative coniferous and native beech stands: Consequences of changes in the structural and species composition of tree stands in Central Europe	3
Modelling fuel loads of understorey vegetation and forest floor components in pine stands in NW Spain	3
Land-use change and windstorms legacies drove the recolonization dynamics of laurel forests in Tenerife, Canary islands	3

Determinants of species assemblages of insect pests in alpine forest ecosystems of western China	3
Soil-vegetation relationships in Mediterranean forests after fire	3
Spatial patterns of insect herbivory within a forest landscape: the role of soil type and forest stratum	3
Influence of soil and elevation on roadside cryptogam diversity in the tropical Andes	3
Mismatch between species distribution and climatic niche optima in relation to functional traits	3
Differential seed removal, germination and seedling growth as determinants of species suitability for forest restoration by direct seeding – A case study from northern Thailand	3
A combination of climate, tree diversity and local human disturbance determine the stability of dry Afromontane forests	3
Optimal integration of forest inventory data and aerial image-based canopy height models for forest stand management	3
Temporal shifts in the explanatory power and relative importance of litter traits in regulating litter decomposition	3
Altitudinal variations of hydraulic traits in Faxon fir (Abies fargesii var. faxoniana): Mechanistic controls and environmental adaptability	3
Eucalyptus carbon stock estimation in subtropical regions with the modeling strategy of sample plots – airborne LiDAR – Landsat time series data	3