Forest Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Outside Front Cover	55
Comparison of multiple satellite-derived products for assessing vegetation productivity and evapotranspiration in Nepal: Toward understanding carbon and water coupling in a mountainous region	51
A bibliometric analysis using machine learning to track paradigm shifts and analytical advances in forest ecology and forestry journal publications from 2010 to 2022	34
Root overlap and allocation of above- and belowground growth of European beech in pure and mixed stands of Douglas fir and Norway spruce	32
Predicting gross primary productivity of poplar plantations based on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence using an improved machine learning model	29
Drought intensity affects radial growth and recovery of P. schrenkiana at varying elevations in the Western Tianshan Mountains, China	27
Using a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) to optimize tree sampling for biomass model fitting: A case study in short-rotation woody crops (SRWCs)	26
The footprint of fire history on fuel structure strongly shapes fire severity in Mediterranean and Oceanic ecosystems of southern Europe	26
Competitive effect, but not competitive response, varies along a climatic gradient depending on tree species identity	26
Variability and determinants of vascular plant species composition in patches of old managed oak forest stands dispersed within Scots pine monocultures	23
Quantifying foliar trait variation and covariation in sun and shade leaves using leaf spectroscopy in eastern North America	23
Lifespan of tropical trees from seed to 1-cm diameter	22
Quantifying unseen woody biomass and diversity in understorey trees and shrubs at the extremes of water availability in the Miombo ecoregion	21
The interaction between temperature and precipitation on the potential distribution range of Betula ermanii in the alpine treeline ecotone on the Changbai Mountain	20
Land use and landscape pattern changes dominated ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies in a temperate mountain region	20
Coarse woody debris requirements for maintaining land snail diversity in managed spruce forests	20
Hybrid ecophysiological growth model for deciduous Populus tomentosa plantation in northern China	20
Editorial Board	19
Large-scale modelling wind damage vulnerability through combination of high-resolution forest resources maps and ForestGALES	19
Evaluating soil acidification risk and its effects on biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in the drylands of China	18
An improved area-based approach for estimating plot-level tree DBH from airborne LiDAR data	18
Legacy effects of historical woodland changes on contemporary plant functional composition	17
Canopy and understory nitrogen additions differentially regulate soil organic carbon fractions via litter–microbe–mineral interactions	16
Influence of climate fluctuations on Pinus palustris growth and drought resilience	16
Simulating silver fir provenance responses to climate change: A forest modelling approach in the Northern Apennines	16

Variable growth responses of four tree species to climate and drought in a Madrean pine-oak forest	16
Optimal integration of forest inventory data and aerial image-based canopy height models for forest stand management	15
Effects of phosphorus resorption on bioactive phosphorus of different-aged Pinus massoniana plantations	15
Rapid escalation and release of risks to forest ecosystems triggered by warming: Insights from tree growth synchrony in temperate forests	15
Table of Contents	14
Land-use change and windstorms legacies drove the recolonization dynamics of laurel forests in Tenerife, Canary islands	14
Drought resilience and legacy effects in two forest tree species on Loess Plateau of China: Growth and water-use efficiency under different drought conditions	14
Spatial niche segregation between bird species in the Białowieża primeval forest (NE Poland)	14
Species prefer to shifting niche positions rather than expanding niche breadth to adapt to the heterogeneous karst forests	14
Aboveground carbon sequestration of Cunninghamia lanceolata forests: Magnitude and drivers	14
Contrasting controls on symbiotic and asymbiotic nitrogen fixation rates along altitudinal gradients in subtropical forests	13
Understanding visitor preferences: Perceived importance of anthropogenic and natural forest features in supplying cultural ecosystem services	13
The effects of incubation temperature, incubation duration, and sample storage condition on the activity of β-1,4-glucosidase across different soil types	13
Remote sensing of subtropical tree diversity: The underappreciated roles of the practical definition of forest canopy and phenological variation	13
Design strategy of advanced generation breeding population of Pinus tabuliformis based on genetic variation and inbreeding level	13
Long-term leaf nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics and drivers in China's forests under global change	13
Leaf nitrogen resorption is more important than litter nitrogen mineralization in mediating the diversity–productivity relationship along a nitrogen-limited temperate forest succession chronosequence	13
Insect seedling herbivory is influenced by multiple factors, but the plant apparency theory is more supported than other hypotheses – A case study in a subtropical forest	13
Growth phenology adjusts to seasonal changes in water availability in coexisting evergreen and deciduous mediterranean oaks	13
Trunk volume estimation of irregular shaped Populus euphratica riparian forest using TLS point cloud data and multivariate prediction models	13
Effects of forest management and habitat continuity on the genetic structure and ecological corridors of target epiphytic moss species: A landscape genetic study of Dicranum viride	13
Sustaining forest biodiversity: Exploring the effect of long-term natural disturbance dynamics on contemporary lichen communities in primary forest ecosystems	13
Photoperiod as the primary determinant regulating the onset and cessation of wood formation in temperate trees	13
Deadwood position matters: Diversity and biomass of saproxylic beetles in a temperate beech forest	13
Outside Front Cover	13
Spatial variation in non-structural carbohydrates reserves of pine species along climatic gradients: A global synthesis	12
N-fixing tree species promote the chemical stability of soil organic carbon in subtropical plantations through increasing the relative contribution of plant-derived lipids	12
Assessing the combined effects of forest management and climate change on carbon and water fluxes in European beech forests	12
Neighborhood competition improves biomass estimation for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) but not Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica Willd.) in young mixed forest stands	12
Silver fir tree-ring fluctuations decrease from north to south latitude—total solar irradiance and NAO are indicated as the main influencing factors	12
Sensitivity of forest phenology in China varies with proximity to forest edges	12
Demographic changes in China's forests from 1998 to 2018	12
Near real-time monitoring of carbon effects from continuous forest change in rapidly urbanizing region of China from 2000 to 2020	12
Old-growth mixed dipterocarp forests show variable losses and gains in aboveground biomass and standing carbon over forty years	12
Compound heatwave-drought alters eco-hydrological processes in subtropical evergreen and deciduous forests	11
Drivers and patterns of community completeness suggest that Tuscan Fagus sylvatica forests can naturally have a low plant diversity	11
A compartmentation approach to deconstruct ecosystem carbon fluxes of a Moso bamboo forest in subtropical China	11
Old-growthness level assessed by structural heterogeneity indices in Mediterranean Quercus pubescens forests	11
Response of woody vegetation and soils to modern climate change in the Altai Mountains	11
Tree competition in West African tropical forests mediated by the functional attributes of species and variation in soil moisture	11
Effects of bamboo invasion on forest structures and diameter–height allometries	11
Tree-based ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality of church forests and their agricultural matrix near Lake Tana, Ethiopia	10
Half a century of demographic responses of Nothofagus cool temperate rainforests to disturbance	10
Ecosystem service multifunctionality of mixed conifer-broad-leaved forests under climate change and forest management based on matrix growth modelling	10
Biodiversity in primary vs. managed forests: Biological legacies of old living and large dead trees drive lichen diversity	10
Utilizing quantile regressions to predict vertical distribution of branch size in Larix olgensis Henry: Capturing the differentiated responses of varying branch sizes to stand and tree factors	10
Radial growth and its temporal stability of Dahurian larch in the southern boreal forest: Divergent trends during climate warming and warming hiatus	10
Forest management causes soil carbon loss by reducing particulate organic carbon in Guangxi, Southern China	9
Higher planting density accelerates structural heterogeneity and shifts growth dominance earlier toward large trees in Chinese fir plantations	9
No generality in biodiversity-productivity relationships along elevation in temperate and subtropical forest landscapes	9

Elongated gaps provide a good compromise between abiotic and competitive conditions for sessile oak regeneration	9
Words apart: Standardizing forestry terms and definitions across European biodiversity studies	9
Quantifying spatiotemporal inconsistencies in runoff responses to forest logging in a subtropical watershed, China	9
Stabilizing forest productivity and resilience at multiple scales	9
Corrigendum to “Lifespan of tropical forest trees from seed to 1-cm sapling” [Forest Ecosystems, 2025, (13), page 100309]	9
Spatio-temporal dynamics of future aboveground carbon stocks in natural forests of China	9
Grouping tree species to estimate basal area increment in temperate multispecies forests in Durango, Mexico	9
Biotic and abiotic factors jointly drive the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in forests worldwide	9
Differential seed removal, germination and seedling growth as determinants of species suitability for forest restoration by direct seeding – A case study from northern Thailand	8
Scale-dependent variations in photosynthetic processes mediate net primary productivity in temperate forests	8
Non-native shrub overrides understory assembly rules through ecosystem engineering	8
Short lifespan and ‘prime period’ of carbon sequestration call for multi-ages in dryland tree plantations	8
A guide for selecting the appropriate plot design to measure ungulate browsing	8
To clear-cut or not to clear-cut: Diversifying benefits from small-scale forestry in Sweden	8
Bark biomass and nutrient concentrations in tropical secondary forest trees of Malaysia	8
Adaptive optimisation of the management of Korean pine plantation	8
Ice storm damage to oak forests in subtropical China	8
Habitat heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate influences on seedling survival in a temperate forest	8
Table of Contents	8
Disparities in tree mortality among plant functional types (PFTs) in a temperate forest: Insights into size-dependent and PFT-specific patterns	8
Stand dynamics of old-growth hemlock forests in central Bhutan are shaped by natural disturbances	8
Modelling analysis embodies drastic transition among global potential natural vegetations in face of changing climate	8
Late spring-early summer drought and soil properties jointly modulate two pine species' decline and climatic sensitivity in temperate Northern China	8
Tree sapling vitality and recovery following the unprecedented 2018 drought in central Europe	8
Addressing nonresponse bias in forest inventory change estimation using response homogeneity classifications	8
Drivers of spatial structure in thinned forests	8
Growth plasticity of conifers did not avoid declining resilience to soil and atmospheric droughts during the 20th century	8
Editorial Board	8
Tree growth decline to warm-wet conditions in boreal forests is linked to stand density	7
New and established regression techniques to address design-bias trends in fixed populations	7
Editorial Board	7
Tree biomass allocation is governed by allometry but modulated by optimization	7
Both composition and configuration of forests and urban development shape bat activity and diversity in North American temperate forests	7
Eucalyptus carbon stock estimation in subtropical regions with the modeling strategy of sample plots – airborne LiDAR – Landsat time series data	7
Response of fungal communities to afforestation and its indication for forest restoration	7
Soil moisture governs the weakening response of transpiration fraction to leaf area index increase: A spatiotemporal analysis in China's Three-North region	7
Influence of crown morphology and branch architecture on tree radial growth of drought-affected Fagus sylvatica L.	7
The patterns of forest soil particulate and mineral associated organic carbon characteristics with latitude and soil depth across eastern China	7
Water use strategies determine divergent growth trends of spruce and juniper on the southeastern Tibetan plateau	7
Root phosphatase activity is a competitive trait affiliated with the conservation gradient in root economic space	7
Microbial genomic traits and mineral protection jointly regulate the temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition in boreal forests	7
The overlooked role of individual variability in autumn xylem phenology and carbon sequestration	6
Black locust under long-term rainfall exclusion treatment changed its drought-resistance strategy to an adventurous pattern that potentially raised the risk of hydraulic damage	6
Detecting the presence of natural forests using airborne laser scanning data	6
Considering tree species of the future: Tree species in Mexico predicted to have suitable current climate in the United States and Canada	6
Plant life form determines spatiotemporal variability and climate response of plant seed rain in subtropical forests	6
Climatic habitat regulates the radial growth sensitivity of two conifers in response to climate change	6
Editorial – Reflection on a decade of publications at the journal Forest Ecosystems	6
Effects of functional phylogeny of light-response-related orthologous genes on seedling survival in a subtropical forest	6
Multidimensional factors influencing ecosystem services and their relationships in alpine ecosystems: A case study of the Daxing'anling forest area, Inner Mongolia	6
Fagus sylvatica and Quercus pyrenaica: Two neighbors with few things in common	6
Divergent responses of Picea crassifolia Kom. in different forest patches to climate change in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	6
Deadwood affects the soil organic matter fractions and enzyme activity of soils in altitude gradient of temperate forests	5
Developing and evaluating satellite-derived phenology and physiology indicators for modeling annual gross primary productivity variability	5
Minimal expansion of shrubland on the Tibetan Plateau over the past three decades	5
Developing allometric equations to estimate forest biomass for tree species categories based on phylogenetic relationships	5
Trends in alpha diversity, community composition, and network complexity of rare, intermediate, and abundant bacterial taxa along a latitudinal gradient and their impact on ecosystem multifunctionalit	5
Microbial life strategies-mediated differences in carbon metabolism explain the variation in SOC sequestration between Kandelia obovata and Sonneratia apetala	5
Understory floristic composition of planted western white pine stands in the northern Rocky Mountains	5
Ungulate browsing patterns and forage abundance determine the regeneration of palatable tree species: Using new perspectives in assessing ungulate browsing pressure in temperate forests	5
Spatial-temporal variations and driving factors of soil organic carbon in forest ecosystems of Northeast China	5
Prediction of the joint impacts of sea level rise and land development on distribution patterns of mangrove communities	5
Increased positive tree species mixture effects on the abundance and richness of Collembola with stand development in Canadian boreal forests	5
Leading directions and effective distance of larch offspring dispersal at the upper treeline in the Northern and Polar Urals, Russia	5
Quercus acutissima exhibits more adaptable water uptake patterns in response to seasonal changes compared to Pinus massoniana	5
Prediction of tree crown width in natural mixed forests using deep learning algorithm	5
What diameter? What height? Influence of measures of average tree size on area-based allometric volume relationships	5
Tree species mixing enhances the diversity–function relationship in subtropical Cunninghamia lanceolata plantations	5
Complexity responses of Rhododendron species to climate change in China reveal their urgent need for protection	5
Eight decades of compositional change in a managed northern hardwood landscape	5
Floristic diversity and forest structure in two protected miombo woodlands: Insights from permanent plots in Gilé and Niassa, Mozambique	5
Fire and retention island remnants have similar deadwood carbon stock a decade after disturbances in boreal forests of Alberta	5
Spatiotemporal dynamics and geo-environmental factors influencing mangrove gross primary productivity during 2000–2020 in Gaoqiao Mangrove Reserve, China	5
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	5
The spatial shifts and vulnerability assessment of ecological niches under climate change scenarios at the genus level: A case study of Betula, China	4
Variation in pine growth response to site preparation methods in the Lower Coastal Plain of the southeastern US	4
Evergreen vs. deciduous species: Whose water use efficiency can influence the plant trait spectrum in the karst evergreen-deciduous mixed broad-leaved forests?	4
Droughts and windstorms due to climate change increase variability in species and trait composition of a subtropical monsoon evergreen broadleaf forest in China	4
Individual tree segmentation in occluded complex forest stands through ellipsoid directional searching and point compensation	4
Determination of forest communities on the basis of small plots (microplots) within the geomorphologically diverse landscape of the Kras plateau (Italy, Slovenia)	4

Understorey species distinguish late successional and ancient forests after decades of minimum human intervention: A case study from Slovenia	4
A tree detection method based on trunk point cloud section in dense plantation forest using drone LiDAR data	4
Effects of environmental variables on canopy transpiration in two coniferous forests at different growing-season stages	4
Subtropical forest macro-decomposers rapidly transfer litter carbon and nitrogen into soil mineral-associated organic matter	4
Tree allometry responses to competition and complementarity in mixed-species plantations of Betula alnoides	4
Leaf habit differentiation explains trait tradeoffs across savanna woody plants	4
How to determine the leaf area index (LAI) of forests: A comparison of forest inventory versus satellite-driven estimates	4
Decoupling REDD+ understanding of local stakeholders on the onset of materializing carbon credits from forests in Nepal	4
The unimodal latitudinal pattern of K, Ca and Mg concentration and its potential drivers in forest foliage in eastern China	4
Outside Front Cover	4
Large-scale and long-term spatiotemporal patterns of disturbances in primary beech-dominated forests in the Carpathian Mountains of Europe	4
Tree community composition modulates early-stage decomposition of standard litter through chemical and physical engineering	4
Species-specific influences of competition and tree size on drought sensitivity and resistance for three planted conifers in northern China	4
Ghost species form an important component of the epiphytic lichens in temperate forests	4
Prediction of individual tree seedling volume, biomass, and carbon content via allometric projection	4
Old-growth mixed beech-dominated forests continue accumulating carbon with advancing age	4
Tree mycorrhizal strategies regulate diversity–productivity relationships across forest strata along soil fertility	3
Diversity of beetle species and functional traits along gradients of deadwood suggests weak environmental filtering	3
Seasonal snow cover patterns explain alpine treeline elevation better than temperature at regional scale	3
Estimating area, standing carbon stock, and potential carbon stock of degraded forests in China	3
Response of understory plant species richness and tree regeneration to thinning in Pinus tabuliformis plantations in northern China	3
Patterns and impacts of an unprecedented outbreak of bark beetles in Central Europe: A glimpse into the future?	3
The origin and beginnings of modern Continuous Cover Forestry in Europe	3
Temperature determines the biomass of forest floor bryophytes: A cross-regional investigation in 413 sites	3
Updating the distribution of Nothofagus alessandrii: Impact of deforestation, fragmentation and connectivity	3
Integrating remote sensing and 3-PG model to simulate the biomass and carbon stock of Larix olgensis plantation	3
Multi-year throughfall reduction enhanced the growth and non-structural carbohydrate storage of roots at the expenses of above-ground growth in a warm-temperate natural oak forest	3
Dominance of rock exposure and soil depth in leaf trait networks outweighs soil quality in karst limestone and dolomite habitats	3
Analysis of the inflection points of height-diameter models	3
Site index determination using a time series of airborne laser scanning data	3
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	3
Variation of above-ground tree biomass and soil carbon stocks across neotropical forest types	3
Terrain or climate factor dominates vegetation resilience? Evidence from three national parks across different climatic zones in China	3
Outside Front Cover	3
Tree species identity and interaction determine vertical forest structure in young planted forests measured by terrestrial laser scanning	3
A comparison of species co-occurrence methods within the dark diversity framework in coniferous-broadleaved mixed forests	3
Book review “Continuous Cover Forestry – Theories, Concepts, and Implementation” by Arne Pommerening	3
Invasive bamboo removal enhances soil multifunctionality via increasing fungal but not bacterial community stability	3
Potential for improved groundwater recharge and dry-season flows through forest landscape restoration on degraded lands in the tropics	3
Leaf morphological trait integration and modularity provide insights into ecological adaptation in evergreen oaks	3