Shrub encroachment is a global phenomenon occurring in a wide range of ecosystems, including in tree plantations, which is known to affect ecosystem functioning and productivity …
Top height (TH) is one of the most important features of forest stands that is used in forest resource management. Thus far, the TH has been mainly determined in forestry on the basis …
Forest management planning can be challenging when allocating multiple ecosystem services (ESs) to management units (MUs), given the potentially conflicting management …
Site productivity is essential information for sustainable forest management and site index (SI) is the most common quantitative measure of it. The SI is usually determined for …
Forests contribute directly to ecosystem structure and functioning, maintaining biodiversity, acting as a climate regulator and reducing desertification. To better manage forests, it is …
Identifying the key climatic parameters controlling a tree species' growth in a given environment can improve our understanding of the species' adaptability to climate change …
J Lemaire, M Vennetier, B Prévosto… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest dieback is a high risk factor for the sustainability of these ecosystems in the climate change context. Productivity losses and increased defoliation and mortality rates have …
A Gull E. Fareen, T Mahmood, I Bodlah, A Rashid… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Climate change has been discussed as to exert shifts in geographical range of plants, animals or insect species by increasing, reducing or shifting its appropriate climatic habitat …
S Marques, V Bushenkov, A Lotov, J G. Borges - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Decision making in modern forest management planning is challenged by the need to recognize multiple ecosystem services and to address the preferences and goals of …