Forest Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Variation of net primary productivity and its drivers in China’s forests during 2000–2018	50
A century of National Forest Inventory in Norway – informing past, present, and future decisions	49
Early detection of pine wilt disease in Pinus tabuliformis in North China using a field portable spectrometer and UAV-based hyperspectral imagery	41
Machine learning and geostatistical approaches for estimating aboveground biomass in Chinese subtropical forests	39
Dynamics of dead wood decay in Swiss forests	36
Tree growth is more limited by drought in rear-edge forests most of the times	33
Mapping aboveground biomass and its prediction uncertainty using LiDAR and field data, accounting for tree-level allometric and LiDAR model errors	31
Trade-offs between ecosystem service provision and the predisposition to disturbances: a NFI-based scenario analysis	29
Innovative deep learning artificial intelligence applications for predicting relationships between individual tree height and diameter at breast height	29
Strong controls of daily minimum temperature on the autumn photosynthetic phenology of subtropical vegetation in China	27
Wood substitution potential in greenhouse gas emission reduction–review on current state and application of displacement factors	26
Deforestation and fragmentation trends of seasonal dry tropical forest in Ecuador: impact on conservation	25
A comparison of polypore funga and species composition in forest ecosystems of China, North America, and Europe	25
Large scale mapping of forest attributes using heterogeneous sets of airborne laser scanning and National Forest Inventory data	24
Soil-vegetation relationships in Mediterranean forests after fire	24
Active forest management accelerates carbon storage in plantation forests in Lishui, southern China	23
Soil-plant co-stimulation during forest vegetation restoration in a subtropical area of southern China	23
Assessing the vulnerability of ecosystems to climate change based on climate exposure, vegetation stability and productivity	22
Combining spatial and economic criteria in tree-level harvest planning	21
Assessing a novel modelling approach with high resolution UAV imagery for monitoring health status in priority riparian forests	21
Using GEDI lidar data and airborne laser scanning to assess height growth dynamics in fast-growing species: a showcase in Spain	20
Environmental rehabilitation of damaged land	20
Partitioning tree water usage into storage and transpiration in a mixed forest	19
Mapping forest age using National Forest Inventory, airborne laser scanning, and Sentinel-2 data	19
Accuracy assessment and error analysis for diameter at breast height measurement of trees obtained using a novel backpack LiDAR system	19

No treeline shift despite climate change over the last 70 years	18
Effects of three coniferous plantation species on plant‐soil feedbacks and soil physical and chemical properties in semi‐arid mountain ecosystems	18
Organic matter quality of forest floor as a driver of C and P dynamics in acacia and eucalypt plantations established on a Ferralic Arenosols, Congo	18
Organic mulching promotes soil organic carbon accumulation to deep soil layer in an urban plantation forest	18
National Forest Inventories capture the multifunctionality of managed forests in Germany	17
Tree diversity effects on forest productivity increase through time because of spatial partitioning	17
Seamless integration of above- and under-canopy unmanned aerial vehicle laser scanning for forest investigation	17
Discovering forest height changes based on spaceborne lidar data of ICESat-1 in 2005 and ICESat-2 in 2019: a case study in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China	17
Using machine learning algorithms to estimate stand volume growth of Larix and Quercus forests based on national-scale Forest Inventory data in China	16
Evaluating soil nutrients of Dacrydium pectinatum in China using machine learning techniques	16
Predicting stand age in managed forests using National Forest Inventory field data and airborne laser scanning	16
Impacts of oak deforestation and rainfed cultivation on soil redistribution processes across hillslopes using 137Cs techniques	16
Wild bee distribution near forested landscapes is dependent on successional state	15
Addressing soil protection concerns in forest ecosystem management under climate change	15
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	15
How can the forest sector mitigate climate change in a changing climate? Case studies of boreal and northern temperate forests in eastern Canada	15
Comparison of estimators of variance for forest inventories with systematic sampling - results from artificial populations	15
Allometry-based estimation of forest aboveground biomass combining LiDAR canopy height attributes and optical spectral indexes	14
Forest management required for consistent carbon sink in China’s forest plantations	14
A multi-purpose National Forest Inventory in Bangladesh: design, operationalisation and key results	14
A 40-year evaluation of drivers of African rainforest change	14
Effects of root dominate over aboveground litter on soil microbial biomass in global forest ecosystems	14
Variations in the natural 13C and 15N abundance of plants and soils under long-term N addition and precipitation reduction: interpretation of C and N dynamics	13
Forest height mapping using inventory and multi-source satellite data over Hunan Province in southern China	13
Nest-site selection by the white-tailed eagle and black stork – implications for conservation practice	13
Natural forests in New Zealand – a large terrestrial carbon pool in a national state of equilibrium	13
Different responses of soil respiration and its components to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in a subtropical secondary forest	12
Influence of voxel size on forest canopy height estimates using full-waveform airborne LiDAR data	12
Assessing above-ground biomass-functional diversity relationships in temperate forests in northern Mexico	12
Effects of local neighbourhood diversity on crown structure and productivity of individual trees in mature mixed-species forests	12
Gap models across micro- to mega-scales of time and space: examples of Tansley’s ecosystem concept	12
Ground-based/UAV-LiDAR data fusion for quantitative structure modeling and tree parameter retrieval in subtropical planted forest	11
Individual tree extraction from terrestrial laser scanning data via graph pathing	11
Forest disturbances and the attribution derived from yearly Landsat time series over 1990–2020 in the Hengduan Mountains Region of Southwest China	11
Global woodland structure from local interactions: new nearest-neighbour functions for understanding the ontogenesis of global forest structure	11
Performance of statistical and machine learning-based methods for predicting biogeographical patterns of fungal productivity in forest ecosystems	11
Impact of Robinia pseudoacacia stand conversion on soil properties and bacterial community composition in Mount Tai, China	11
Management scheme influence and nitrogen addition effects on soil CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes in a Moso bamboo plantation	11
Multiple forest structural elements are needed to promote beetle biomass, diversity and abundance	11
A century of national forest inventories – informing past, present and future decisions	10
Selective logging enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via increase of functional diversity in a Pinus yunnanensis forest in Southwest China	10
Patterns and driving factors of leaf C, N, and P stoichiometry in two forest types with different stand ages in a mid-subtropical zone	10
Tree mortality and regeneration of Euphrates poplar riparian forests along the Tarim River, Northwest China	10
Evaluating the impact of sampling schemes on leaf area index measurements from digital hemispherical photography in Larix principis-rupprechtii forest plots	10
Topography modulates effects of nitrogen deposition on microbial resource limitation in a nitrogen-saturated subtropical forest	10
Forest management for optimizing soil protection: a landscape-level approach	10
Decomposition and stabilization of organic matter in an old-growth tropical riparian forest: effects of soil properties and vegetation structure	10
Assessing Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 spectral-temporal features for mapping tree species of northern plantation forests in Heilongjiang Province, China	10
Improving precision of field inventory estimation of aboveground biomass through an alternative view on plot biomass	9
Sensitivity analysis of Biome-BGCMuSo for gross and net primary productivity of typical forests in China	9

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	9
The Siberian moth (Dendrolimus sibiricus), a pest risk assessment for Norway	9
Retrieval of forest canopy height in a mountainous region with ICESat-2 ATLAS	9
Different mechanisms underlying divergent responses of autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration to long-term throughfall reduction in a warm-temperate oak forest	9
Divergent allocations of nonstructural carbohydrates shape growth response to rainfall reduction in two subtropical plantations	9
Effect of thinning intensity on understory herbaceous diversity and biomass in mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests of Changbai Mountain	9
Effects of afforestation of agricultural land with grey alder (Alnus incana (L.) Moench) on soil chemical properties, comparing two contrasting soil groups	9
Variation in water supply leads to different responses of tree growth to warming	8
Comparison of the local pivotal method and systematic sampling for national forest inventories	8
Functional diversity dominates positive species mixture effects on ecosystem multifunctionality in subtropical plantations	8
Impact of tree litter identity, litter diversity and habitat quality on litter decomposition rates in tropical moist evergreen forest	8
Plant functional trait diversity and structural diversity co-underpin ecosystem multifunctionality in subtropical forests	8
A combination of climate, tree diversity and local human disturbance determine the stability of dry Afromontane forests	8
Hydrological functioning of forested catchments, Central Himalayan Region, India	8
Allometric models for estimating aboveground biomass in the tropical woodlands of Ghana, West Africa	8
Immediate and legacy effects of snow exclusion on soil fungal diversity and community composition	8
Evaluating alternative hypotheses behind biodiversity and multifunctionality relationships in the forests of Northeastern China	7
Urbanization strengthens the edge effects on species diversity and composition of woody plants in remnant forests	7
C:N:P stoichiometry as an indicator of Histosol drainage in lowland and mountain forest ecosystems	7
Mapping data gaps to estimate biomass across Brazilian Amazon forests	7
Trees of Panama: A complete checklist with every geographic range	7
Consistent response of nematode communities to management of coniferous plantations	7
Influence of individual tree characteristics, spatial structure and logging history on tree-related microhabitat occurrence in North American hardwood forests	7
Changes in plant debris and carbon stocks across a subalpine forest successional series	7
Conversion of pure Chinese fir plantation to multi-layered mixed plantation enhances the soil aggregate stability by regulating microbial communities in subtropical China	7
Nutrient resorption strategies of three oak tree species in response to interannual climate variability	7
Stand-level biomass models for predicting C stock for the main Spanish pine species	7
Current climate overrides past climate change in explaining multi-site beta diversity of Lauraceae species in China	7
Species richness, forest types and regeneration of Schima in the subtropical forest ecosystem of Yunnan, southwestern China	7
Twenty years of drought‐mediated change in snag populations in mixed‐conifer and ponderosa pine forests in Northern Arizona	7
Vegetation structure and edaphic factors in veredas reflect different conservation status in these threatened areas	7
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	7
Trade-offs among fine-root phosphorus-acquisition strategies of 15 tropical woody species	7
Patterns of species diversity and its determinants in a temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest	6
Linkage of microbial living communities and residues to soil organic carbon accumulation along a forest restoration gradient in southern China	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
Delineating forest stands from grid data	6
Elevation gradient distribution of indices of tree population in a montane forest: The role of leaf traits and the environment	6
A better carbon-water flux simulation in multiple vegetation types by data assimilation	6
Monitoring the abundance of saproxylic red-listed species in a managed beech forest by landsat temporal metrics	6
Introduction of Dalbergia odorifera enhances nitrogen absorption on Eucalyptus through stimulating microbially mediated soil nitrogen-cycling	6
Once upon a time biomass burning in the western Alps: Nesting effects of climate and local drivers on long-term subalpine fires	6
The relationships among structure variables of larch forests in China	6
Litterfall dynamics and soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in the Brazilian palm swamp ecosystems	6
Selective and taxon-dependent effects of semi-feral cattle grazing on tree regeneration in an old-growth Mediterranean mountain forest	6
Two-level optimization approach to tree-level forest planning	6
Structure complexity is the primary driver of functional diversity in the temperate forests of northeastern China	6
Ecological niche modeling of the main forest-forming species in the Caucasus	6
Modeling of cold-temperate tree Pinus koraiensis (Pinaceae) distribution in the Asia-Pacific region: Climate change impact	6
Influence of sampling intensity on performance of two-phase forest inventory using airborne laser scanning	6
Forest land use discontinuity and northern red oak Quercus rubra introduction change biomass allocation and life strategy of lingonberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea	6
Effect of scots pine forest management on soil properties and carabid beetle occurrence under post-fire environmental conditions - a case study from Central Europe	6
Environmental heterogeneity regulates species-area relationships through the spatial distribution of species	6
Extending harmonized national forest inventory herb layer vegetation cover observations to derive comprehensive biomass estimates	5
Effects of climate, biotic factors, and phylogeny on allometric relationships: testing the metabolic scaling theory in plantations and natural forests across China	5
Reduced turnover rate of topsoil organic carbon in old-growth forests: a case study in subtropical China	5
A note on the estimation of variance for big BAF sampling	5
An improved area-based approach for estimating plot-level tree DBH from airborne LiDAR data	5
The role of net ecosystem productivity and of inventories in climate change research: the need for “net ecosystem productivity with harvest”, NEPH	5
Benefits of past inventory data as prior information for the current inventory	5
Solar radiation effects on leaf nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry of Chinese fir across subtropical China	5
How do nitrogen-limited alpine coniferous forests acquire nitrogen? A rhizosphere perspective	5
Characteristics and chemical reactivity of biogenic volatile organic compounds from dominant forest species in the Jing-Jin-Ji area, China	5
Trade-offs between wood production and forest grouse habitats in two regions with distinctive landscapes	5
Forest management causes soil carbon loss by reducing particulate organic carbon in Guangxi, Southern China	5
Geoecological parameters indicate discrepancies between potential and actual forest area in the forest-steppe of Central Mongolia	5
Thinning effects on biomass and element concentrations of roots in adjacent hornbeam and oak stands in Istanbul, Turkey	5
Climate-driven variations in productivity reveal adaptive strategies in Iberian cork oak agroforestry systems	5
Paludification reduces black spruce growth rate but does not alter tree water use efficiency in Canadian boreal forested peatlands	5
Spatial patterns of insect herbivory within a forest landscape: the role of soil type and forest stratum	5
Black locust coppice stands homogenize soil diazotrophic communities by reducing soil net nitrogen mineralization	5
Deadwood affects the soil organic matter fractions and enzyme activity of soils in altitude gradient of temperate forests	5
Exploring willingness-to-pay for the restoration and maintenance of reserved forests in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana	5
Importance of overstorey attributes for understorey litter production and nutrient cycling in European forests	4
Novel evidence from Taxus fuana forests for niche-neutral process assembling community	4
Environmental and canopy conditions regulate the forest floor evapotranspiration of larch plantations	4
Importance of Quercus spp. for diversity and biomass of vascular epiphytes in a managed pine-oak forest in Southern Mexico	4
Intraspecific variation in shoot flammability in Dracophyllum rosmarinifolium is not predicted by habitat environmental conditions	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
A tree detection method based on trunk point cloud section in dense plantation forest using drone LiDAR data	4

New approach to calculating tree height at the regional scale	4
The diameter of beech snags is an important factor for saproxylic beetle richness: Implications for forest management and conservation	4
Effects of forest canopy density and epixylic vegetation on nutrient concentrations in decaying logs of a subalpine fir forest	4
Factors controlling deep-profile soil organic carbon and water storage following Robinia pseudoacacia afforestation of the Loess Plateau in China	4
Rodent-mediated plant community competition: what happens to the seeds after entering the adjacent stands?	4
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	4
Effect of thinning intensity on the stem CO2 efflux of Larix principis-rupprechtii Mayr	4
Moso bamboo expansion decreased soil heterotrophic respiration but increased arbuscular mycorrhizal mycelial respiration in a subtropical broadleaved forest	4
Prediction of tree crown width in natural mixed forests using deep learning algorithm	4
Drivers of tree demographic trade-offs in a temperate forest	4
Effects of fertilization on the growth dominance of Inland Northwest forests of the United States	4
Zonal aspects of the influence of forest cover change on runoff in northern river basins of Central Siberia	4
Neighborhood diversity structure and neighborhood species richness effects differ across life stages in a subtropical natural secondary forest	4
Effects of firewood harvesting intensity on biodiversity and ecosystem services in shrublands of northern Patagonia	4
The 2/3 scaling of twig nitrogen to phosphorus in woody plants	4
Predisposing factors’ effects on mortality of oak (Quercus) and hickory (Carya) species in mature forests undergoing mesophication in Appalachian Ohio	4