Old-growth forests around the world are vanishing rapidly and have been lost almost
completely from the European temperate forest region. Poor management practices, often …

The rapid expansion of human settlement, agricultural land and roads because of
population growth in several regions of the world has contributed to the depletion of forest …

Deforestation process represents a wide concern mainly in the mountain environments due
to its role in global warming, biodiversity loss, land degradation and natural hazards …

Forest-cover dynamics is of wide concern due to its role in climate change, biodiversity
losses, water balance and land degradation, as well as social and economic development …

Forests can be significantly affected by windthrow damage, which negatively impacts the
process of forest utilization. Therefore, it is important to identify areas with potential …

Downscaling and modeling natural disturbances such as the extratropical storms are
important for understanding and predicting the behavior of the air flow over complex forested …

Windstorms are among the main factors causing damages to forest ecosystems. These
meteorological phenomena cannot be predicted, prevented or controlled. They are …

Windthrow is a phenomenon that causes major changes to tree stand evolution by blowing
down or breaking either isolated trees or entire tree stands, with a strong ecological, social …

Sažetak Salvage logging is performed to remove the fallen and damaged trees after a
natural disturbance, eg, fire or windstorm. From an economic point of view, it is desirable to …

Forest fires are burning areas of forest or land in large or small areas. Forest fires are often
uncontrollable and when this happens, the fire will burn anything nearby for two reasons …