Showing papers in "Forest Ecology and Management in 2018"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the use of UAV imagery for retrieving structural information on mangroves, focusing on a structurally complex 90-year old protective forest zone and a simpler 15-year-old productive forest zone that had been silviculturally managed for charcoal production.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the changes in components of soil respiration may be highly susceptible to soil organic carbon fractions, especially to DOC, and this linkage is largely modulated by microbial community across land-use changes.

TL;DR: This article provided the current state of knowledge and future research directions with regards to 10 questions about mixed-forest functioning and management identified and selected by a range of European forest managers during an extensive participatory process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used European national forest inventory data with 1.3 million plots to predict the distribution of the 12 thermophilic and rare tree species in Europe today and under future warming scenarios of +2.9 and +4.5°C, respectively.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the spatial-temporal variations in soil moisture under Robinia pseudoacacia plantations on the Loess Plateau of China and found that the depth-averaged soil moisture content (SMC) was generally lower under forest sites than under cropland, both in the shallow layers and in the deep profiles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a theoretical framework for classifying management strategies, explicitly recognizing trade-offs with other, untargeted ecosystem components, and use this framework to provide a quantitative synthesis of the efficacy of management strategies in the Mediterranean basin.

TL;DR: In this paper, soil samples were collected from Robinia pseudoacacia L. (RP42, RP27, and RP17) and farmland (FL) sites with a chronosequence of 42, 27, and 17 years.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the general responses of 10 variables related to forest soil carbon stocks and dynamics to forest thinning management, including soil moisture, fine root biomass, soil organic carbon, and microbial biomass carbon.

TL;DR: It is suggested that forest regeneration was most sensitive to immediate browsing and trampling impacts of small seedlings, while forest functioning was least sensitive because of time lags, but these effects may build up over time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used annual mapping to reconstruct the history of fire in Brazil's state of Acre to understand the forest-fire regime over a period of 33 years (1984-2016).

TL;DR: In this article, the dominant tree species Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H.Karst. ), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), and sessile oak (Quercus petraea ( Mattuschka ) Liebl )) exhibit a significant decrease in wood density since more than 100 years.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review how historical timber harvesting and land use, increases in deer population sizes, invasive species, and contemporary forest management practices interact to erode ecological memory and increase resilience debt of hardwood forests of eastern North America.

TL;DR: A multi-stage review of the silvicultural literature for the time period 1992-2017 indicated considerable lags in incorporation of complexity-focused terminology and ideas into silviculture research and experimental treatment design, as well as attempting to better understand mechanistic relationships among structural, functional, and adaptive conceptions of complexity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined progress made with species distribution modelling (SDM) for trees under climate change, and described progress in relation to climatic data, soil and species distribution data, species and provenance trial data, descriptions of species climatic requirements, mapping of suitable areas and integration of species and environmental data.

TL;DR: A positive correlation between P50 and vessel diameter among the six oak species indicates that the more embolism resistant species had narrower xylem vessels, however, this tradeoff between hydraulic efficiency and safety was not observed between Q. petraea provenances.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a repeated inventory (line-intercept sampling) of gap size frequency and fraction in a virgin beech (Fagus sylvatica) forest in the Slovakian Carpathians over a 10-year interval (2003-2013) to test the hypotheses that (i) disturbance intensity and thus gap creation and gap closure rate change only little over time, (ii) gaps persist or even expand, until they are filled primarily by vertical ingrowth of trees from lower strata, and (iii) gap creation promotes the height growth of released

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a multi-scale optimization approach including an ensemble of four species distribution modeling methods to explore the relationship between SWWP occurrence and environmental variables based on climate, soil, and topography.

TL;DR: In this paper, ground-based data of forest fires at the county level in China's forest fire hazards survey (1989-1991) were applied in studying forest fires and five relevant factors: climate, fuel, topography, human activity, and firefighting facilities at national and provincial scales.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the variations of soil water storage following the conversion of croplands into forests with different species and stand ages on the Loess Plateau, and three most common artificial forests dominated by Salix matsudana, Populus cathayana, and Sophora japonica with stand ages of 5, 10, and 15

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deployed TLS at the Center for Tropical Forest Science - Forest Global Earth Observatory (CTFS-ForestGEO) plot in Front Royal, Virginia and virtually reconstructed 329 trees with diameters up to 123 cm.

TL;DR: Provenance trials are a useful tool to disentangle genetic variation from plasticity of adaptive traits among populations within populations within the same species and it is hypothesize that its variation in provenance trials should be shaped by the provenance climatic variables.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review of science-and forestry experts-based recommendations effectively enhancing deadwood bearing in mind operational implications has been presented in international literature, where the key aspects regarding the implementation of deadwood management in managed forests where the aim is to favor biodiversity without compromising or negatively affecting operational and commercial aspects of forest management are provided.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated changes in soil properties and the soil bacterial community composition in the topsoil (0-20 cm) following afforestation on cropland on the Loess Plateau.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of thinning on stem growth in Mediterranean evergreen oak coppices and found that thinning increased long-term growth at the stem level but decreased the wood biomass at the stand level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extensively reviewed the literature on fire behavior and effects in the Cerrado biome to identify current knowledge gaps and ways to advance research on fire ecology to improve the efficacy of current policies for fire use in this biome.

TL;DR: It is indicated that intensification of SC reduces recovery of species richness, composition and basal area of SGs following productive periods, turning this ancient form of land-use unsustainable.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated tree growth from 299 ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) in treated and untreated stands during severe drought from 2012 to 2015 in the mixed-conifer forests of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area (WNRA).

TL;DR: In this paper, the economic and environmental performance of continuous cover forestry on drained peatlands was reviewed to consider whether continuous cover forests (CCF) could be a feasible alternative to even-aged management (EM).

TL;DR: Understanding of patterns of understory forage availability on seismic lines is increased, which could help prioritize seismic line restoration efforts to reduce forage attractive to primary wolf prey, and bears, and decrease the spatial overlap between caribou and predators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the impact of P. cinnamomi on forest ecosystems internationally and suggest three major strategies for improving forest resilience to P.cinnanmomi: (1) improving site quality to reduce risk of infection, (2) genetically improving threatened species to improve resistance to infection, and (3) restricting further spread of infection.