Forest Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Machine learning and geostatistical approaches for estimating aboveground biomass in Chinese subtropical forests	51
Early detection of pine wilt disease in Pinus tabuliformis in North China using a field portable spectrometer and UAV-based hyperspectral imagery	44
Tree growth is more limited by drought in rear-edge forests most of the times	42
A comparison of polypore funga and species composition in forest ecosystems of China, North America, and Europe	36
Strong controls of daily minimum temperature on the autumn photosynthetic phenology of subtropical vegetation in China	34
Active forest management accelerates carbon storage in plantation forests in Lishui, southern China	34
Wood substitution potential in greenhouse gas emission reduction–review on current state and application of displacement factors	31
Deforestation and fragmentation trends of seasonal dry tropical forest in Ecuador: impact on conservation	31
Large scale mapping of forest attributes using heterogeneous sets of airborne laser scanning and National Forest Inventory data	31
Soil-vegetation relationships in Mediterranean forests after fire	30
Effects of three coniferous plantation species on plant‐soil feedbacks and soil physical and chemical properties in semi‐arid mountain ecosystems	28
Mapping forest age using National Forest Inventory, airborne laser scanning, and Sentinel-2 data	26
Using GEDI lidar data and airborne laser scanning to assess height growth dynamics in fast-growing species: a showcase in Spain	26
Forest management required for consistent carbon sink in China’s forest plantations	25
Using machine learning algorithms to estimate stand volume growth of Larix and Quercus forests based on national-scale Forest Inventory data in China	24
Ground-based/UAV-LiDAR data fusion for quantitative structure modeling and tree parameter retrieval in subtropical planted forest	24
Seamless integration of above- and under-canopy unmanned aerial vehicle laser scanning for forest investigation	23
Assessing a novel modelling approach with high resolution UAV imagery for monitoring health status in priority riparian forests	22
How can the forest sector mitigate climate change in a changing climate? Case studies of boreal and northern temperate forests in eastern Canada	22
National Forest Inventories capture the multifunctionality of managed forests in Germany	22
Individual tree extraction from terrestrial laser scanning data via graph pathing	20
Partitioning tree water usage into storage and transpiration in a mixed forest	20
Effects of root dominate over aboveground litter on soil microbial biomass in global forest ecosystems	20
Allometry-based estimation of forest aboveground biomass combining LiDAR canopy height attributes and optical spectral indexes	20
Forest disturbances and the attribution derived from yearly Landsat time series over 1990–2020 in the Hengduan Mountains Region of Southwest China	19

No treeline shift despite climate change over the last 70 years	18
Impacts of oak deforestation and rainfed cultivation on soil redistribution processes across hillslopes using 137Cs techniques	18
Pre-fire aboveground biomass, estimated from LiDAR, spectral and field inventory data, as a major driver of burn severity in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) ecosystems	18
Forest height mapping using inventory and multi-source satellite data over Hunan Province in southern China	18
Organic mulching promotes soil organic carbon accumulation to deep soil layer in an urban plantation forest	18
Different responses of soil respiration and its components to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in a subtropical secondary forest	18
Retrieval of forest canopy height in a mountainous region with ICESat-2 ATLAS	17
Structure complexity is the primary driver of functional diversity in the temperate forests of northeastern China	17
Natural forests in New Zealand – a large terrestrial carbon pool in a national state of equilibrium	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
Assessing Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 spectral-temporal features for mapping tree species of northern plantation forests in Heilongjiang Province, China	16
Effects of local neighbourhood diversity on crown structure and productivity of individual trees in mature mixed-species forests	15
Forest management for optimizing soil protection: a landscape-level approach	15
Performance of statistical and machine learning-based methods for predicting biogeographical patterns of fungal productivity in forest ecosystems	15
Nest-site selection by the white-tailed eagle and black stork – implications for conservation practice	15
A multi-purpose National Forest Inventory in Bangladesh: design, operationalisation and key results	15
Plant functional trait diversity and structural diversity co-underpin ecosystem multifunctionality in subtropical forests	15
Tree mortality and regeneration of Euphrates poplar riparian forests along the Tarim River, Northwest China	14
A combination of climate, tree diversity and local human disturbance determine the stability of dry Afromontane forests	14
A 40-year evaluation of drivers of African rainforest change	14
Assessing above-ground biomass-functional diversity relationships in temperate forests in northern Mexico	14
Conversion of pure Chinese fir plantation to multi-layered mixed plantation enhances the soil aggregate stability by regulating microbial communities in subtropical China	14
Topography modulates effects of nitrogen deposition on microbial resource limitation in a nitrogen-saturated subtropical forest	14
Sensitivity analysis of Biome-BGCMuSo for gross and net primary productivity of typical forests in China	13
Management scheme influence and nitrogen addition effects on soil CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes in a Moso bamboo plantation	13
Functional diversity dominates positive species mixture effects on ecosystem multifunctionality in subtropical plantations	13
Decomposition and stabilization of organic matter in an old-growth tropical riparian forest: effects of soil properties and vegetation structure	13
Effect of thinning intensity on understory herbaceous diversity and biomass in mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests of Changbai Mountain	13
Impact of Robinia pseudoacacia stand conversion on soil properties and bacterial community composition in Mount Tai, China	13
Urbanization strengthens the edge effects on species diversity and composition of woody plants in remnant forests	13
Vegetation structure and edaphic factors in veredas reflect different conservation status in these threatened areas	13
Multiple forest structural elements are needed to promote beetle biomass, diversity and abundance	13
Trade-offs among fine-root phosphorus-acquisition strategies of 15 tropical woody species	13
Factors controlling deep-profile soil organic carbon and water storage following Robinia pseudoacacia afforestation of the Loess Plateau in China	11
Divergent allocations of nonstructural carbohydrates shape growth response to rainfall reduction in two subtropical plantations	11
Modeling of cold-temperate tree Pinus koraiensis (Pinaceae) distribution in the Asia-Pacific region: Climate change impact	11
Impact of tree litter identity, litter diversity and habitat quality on litter decomposition rates in tropical moist evergreen forest	11
A century of national forest inventories – informing past, present and future decisions	11
Deadwood affects the soil organic matter fractions and enzyme activity of soils in altitude gradient of temperate forests	11
Evaluating alternative hypotheses behind biodiversity and multifunctionality relationships in the forests of Northeastern China	11
Immediate and legacy effects of snow exclusion on soil fungal diversity and community composition	11
C:N:P stoichiometry as an indicator of Histosol drainage in lowland and mountain forest ecosystems	10
Nutrient resorption strategies of three oak tree species in response to interannual climate variability	10
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	10
Hydrological functioning of forested catchments, Central Himalayan Region, India	9
Neighborhood diversity structure and neighborhood species richness effects differ across life stages in a subtropical natural secondary forest	9
Ecological niche modeling of the main forest-forming species in the Caucasus	9
Words apart: Standardizing forestry terms and definitions across European biodiversity studies	9
Current climate overrides past climate change in explaining multi-site beta diversity of Lauraceae species in China	9
Influence of individual tree characteristics, spatial structure and logging history on tree-related microhabitat occurrence in North American hardwood forests	9

Patterns of species diversity and its determinants in a temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest	9
Different mechanisms underlying divergent responses of autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration to long-term throughfall reduction in a warm-temperate oak forest	9
Elevation gradient distribution of indices of tree population in a montane forest: The role of leaf traits and the environment	9
Consistent response of nematode communities to management of coniferous plantations	9
Characteristics and chemical reactivity of biogenic volatile organic compounds from dominant forest species in the Jing-Jin-Ji area, China	9
A geographical similarity-based sampling method of non-fire point data for spatial prediction of forest fires	9
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	9
An improved area-based approach for estimating plot-level tree DBH from airborne LiDAR data	8
Prediction of the global potential geographical distribution of Hylurgus ligniperda using a maximum entropy model	8
Forest land use discontinuity and northern red oak Quercus rubra introduction change biomass allocation and life strategy of lingonberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea	8
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	8
Variation in water supply leads to different responses of tree growth to warming	8
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	8
A tree detection method based on trunk point cloud section in dense plantation forest using drone LiDAR data	8
Influence of sampling intensity on performance of two-phase forest inventory using airborne laser scanning	8
Changes in plant debris and carbon stocks across a subalpine forest successional series	8
Stand-level biomass models for predicting C stock for the main Spanish pine species	8
Twenty years of drought‐mediated change in snag populations in mixed‐conifer and ponderosa pine forests in Northern Arizona	7
Introduction of Dalbergia odorifera enhances nitrogen absorption on Eucalyptus through stimulating microbially mediated soil nitrogen-cycling	7
The 2/3 scaling of twig nitrogen to phosphorus in woody plants	7
Prediction of tree crown width in natural mixed forests using deep learning algorithm	7
Drivers of tree demographic trade-offs in a temperate forest	7
Root phosphatase activity is a competitive trait affiliated with the conservation gradient in root economic space	7
Two-level optimization approach to tree-level forest planning	7
How do nitrogen-limited alpine coniferous forests acquire nitrogen? A rhizosphere perspective	7
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	7
The diameter of beech snags is an important factor for saproxylic beetle richness: Implications for forest management and conservation	7
Climate-driven variations in productivity reveal adaptive strategies in Iberian cork oak agroforestry systems	7
Environmental heterogeneity regulates species-area relationships through the spatial distribution of species	7
Spatial patterns of insect herbivory within a forest landscape: the role of soil type and forest stratum	7
Linkage of microbial living communities and residues to soil organic carbon accumulation along a forest restoration gradient in southern China	7
Geoecological parameters indicate discrepancies between potential and actual forest area in the forest-steppe of Central Mongolia	7
A better carbon-water flux simulation in multiple vegetation types by data assimilation	7
Environmental and canopy conditions regulate the forest floor evapotranspiration of larch plantations	6
Solar radiation effects on leaf nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry of Chinese fir across subtropical China	6
Trunk volume estimation of irregular shaped Populus euphratica riparian forest using TLS point cloud data and multivariate prediction models	6
Once upon a time biomass burning in the western Alps: Nesting effects of climate and local drivers on long-term subalpine fires	6
Functional trait profiles and diversity of trees regenerating in disturbed tropical forests and agroforests in Indonesia	6
Forest management causes soil carbon loss by reducing particulate organic carbon in Guangxi, Southern China	6
Diversity of beetle species and functional traits along gradients of deadwood suggests weak environmental filtering	6
Monitoring the abundance of saproxylic red-listed species in a managed beech forest by landsat temporal metrics	6
Reduced turnover rate of topsoil organic carbon in old-growth forests: a case study in subtropical China	6
Automated registration of wide-baseline point clouds in forests using discrete overlap search	6
Black locust coppice stands homogenize soil diazotrophic communities by reducing soil net nitrogen mineralization	6
Effects of lag time in forest restoration and management	6
Thinning effects on biomass and element concentrations of roots in adjacent hornbeam and oak stands in Istanbul, Turkey	6
Impacts of forestation on the annual and seasonal water balance of a tropical catchment under climate change	6
Leaf phenology rather than mycorrhizal type regulates soil nematode abundance, but collectively affects nematode diversity in seven common subtropical tree species	6
Moso bamboo expansion decreased soil heterotrophic respiration but increased arbuscular mycorrhizal mycelial respiration in a subtropical broadleaved forest	6
The relationships among structure variables of larch forests in China	6
Effects of forest canopy density and epixylic vegetation on nutrient concentrations in decaying logs of a subalpine fir forest	6
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	5
A note on the estimation of variance for big BAF sampling	5
Complexity responses of Rhododendron species to climate change in China reveal their urgent need for protection	5
Exploring willingness-to-pay for the restoration and maintenance of reserved forests in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana	5
Fagus sylvatica and Quercus pyrenaica: Two neighbors with few things in common	5
Removing harvest residues from hardwood stands affects tree growth, wood density and stem wood nutrient concentration in European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and oak (Quercus spp.)	5
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	5
Paludification reduces black spruce growth rate but does not alter tree water use efficiency in Canadian boreal forested peatlands	5
Fungal diversity and community composition responses to the reintroduction of fire in a non-managed Mediterranean shrubland ecosystem	5
The role of net ecosystem productivity and of inventories in climate change research: the need for “net ecosystem productivity with harvest”, NEPH	5
Eight decades of compositional change in a managed northern hardwood landscape	5
Ecological stoichiometric comparison of plant-litter-soil system in mixed-species and monoculture plantations of Robinia pseudoacacia, Amygdalus davidiana, and Armeniaca sibirica in the Loess Hilly Re	5
Effects of fertilization on the growth dominance of Inland Northwest forests of the United States	5
Remote sensing of subtropical tree diversity: The underappreciated roles of the practical definition of forest canopy and phenological variation	5
Intraspecific variation in shoot flammability in Dracophyllum rosmarinifolium is not predicted by habitat environmental conditions	5
Diversity of plants and mammals as indicators of the effects of land management types in woodlands	5
Predisposing factors’ effects on mortality of oak (Quercus) and hickory (Carya) species in mature forests undergoing mesophication in Appalachian Ohio	5
Novel evidence from Taxus fuana forests for niche-neutral process assembling community	5
Demographic changes in China's forests from 1998 to 2018	5
Orchid diversity and distribution pattern in karst forests in eastern Yunnan Province, China	5
Zonal aspects of the influence of forest cover change on runoff in northern river basins of Central Siberia	5
Response of understory plant species richness and tree regeneration to thinning in Pinus tabuliformis plantations in northern China	4
Importance of Quercus spp. for diversity and biomass of vascular epiphytes in a managed pine-oak forest in Southern Mexico	4
Temporal shifts in the explanatory power and relative importance of litter traits in regulating litter decomposition	4
Effect of thinning intensity on the stem CO2 efflux of Larix principis-rupprechtii Mayr	4
New approach to calculating tree height at the regional scale	4
Soil chemical fertility change over four decades in the Morvan Mountains and influence of tree species (Burgundy, France)	4
Carbon stocks in a highly fragmented landscape with seasonally dry tropical forest in the Neotropics	4
Bridging mapping and simulation modelling in the ecosystem service assessments of boreal forests: effects of bioenergy production on carbon dynamics	4

A test of the mycorrhizal-associated nutrient economy framework in two types of tropical rainforests under nutrient enrichments	4
Habitat heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate influences on seedling survival in a temperate forest	4
Plant–rodent interactions after a heavy snowfall decrease plant regeneration and soil carbon emission in an old-growth forest	4
Responses of soil CH4 fluxes to nitrogen addition in two tropical montane rainforests in southern China	4
Remote sensing of bark beetle damage in Norway spruce individual tree canopies using thermal infrared and airborne laser scanning data fusion	4
Cross-classes domain inference with network sampling for natural resource inventory	4
Understorey species distinguish late successional and ancient forests after decades of minimum human intervention: A case study from Slovenia	4
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	4
Contrast in vulnerability to freezing-induced xylem embolism contributes to divergence in spring phenology between diffuse- and ring-porous temperate trees	4
Developing allometric equations to estimate forest biomass for tree species categories based on phylogenetic relationships	4
Tree sapling vitality and recovery following the unprecedented 2018 drought in central Europe	3
Seasonal snow cover patterns explain alpine treeline elevation better than temperature at regional scale	3
Tree mycorrhizal associations determine how biodiversity, large trees, and environmental factors drive aboveground carbon stock in temperate forests	3
Response of fungal communities to afforestation and its indication for forest restoration	3
Altitudinal variations of hydraulic traits in Faxon fir (Abies fargesii var. faxoniana): Mechanistic controls and environmental adaptability	3
Gap edge canopy buffering of throughfall deposition in a subalpine natural forest	3
Examining approaches for modeling individual tree growth response to thinning in Norway spruce	3
Bayesian inference of biomass growth characteristics for sugi (C. japonica) and hinoki (C. obtusa) forests in self-thinned and managed stands	3
Spatial niche segregation between bird species in the Białowieża primeval forest (NE Poland)	3
Leaf nitrogen resorption is more important than litter nitrogen mineralization in mediating the diversity–productivity relationship along a nitrogen-limited temperate forest succession chronosequence	3
Modifying regeneration strategies classification to enhance the understanding of dominant species growth in fire-prone forest in Southwest China	3
Environmental and biological factors affecting the abundance of Prosopis flexuosa saplings in the central-west Monte of Argentina	3
Expected adult lifespan in tropical trees: Long-term matrix demography in a large plot	3
Assessing spatiotemporal variations of forest carbon density using bi-temporal discrete aerial laser scanning data in Chinese boreal forests	3
Aboveground carbon sequestration of Cunninghamia lanceolata forests: Magnitude and drivers	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
Impact of nitrogen input from biosolids application on carbon sequestration in a Pinus radiata forest	3