Comparing modeling approaches and sample sizes for bark thickness and volume among species and stand origin in Türkiye
December 2026
Accurately estimating bark thickness and volume is important for assessing tree resistance after disturbances and calculating roundwood volume. In Türkiye, black pine (Pinus nigra Arnold.), Taurus cedar...
Species trait dissimilarity dominates the mixing effects of forest plantations across stand development stages
December 2026
Mixed-species plantations are increasingly adopted as they may exhibit higher productivity and carbon sequestration potential under suitable species mixtures and management. Assessing the mixing effects...
Microbial life-history strategies regulate soil organic carbon formation and stability across soil depths during 300 years of the temperate forest succession
December 2026
Forest succession profoundly reshapes soil organic carbon (SOC) persistence, yet the depth-dependent microbial mechanisms governing particulate organic carbon (POC) and mineral-associated organic carbon...
The role of coarse woody debris distribution for the spatial organization of the yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis) and the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) in Białowieża Forest
December 2026
Coarse woody debris constitutes a fundamental structural and trophic component of forest ecosystems. Despite its recognized ecological importance, the role of coarse woody debris in shaping spatial...
Dendrochronological evidence of extreme droughts in the forest-steppe of Western Siberia
December 2026
Current climate models project an increased frequency and intensity of droughts in the Eurasian forest-steppe. Although forests in this area are at risk from increasing aridization, our understanding...
Functional similarity of tree species growth responses to ecological gradients quantified using a multimetric curve distance
December 2026
Quantifying similarity among species responses to ecological gradients is challenging, yet increasingly important for adaptive forest planning under changing environmental conditions. We introduced...
Disentangling sampling bias to generate early-warning surfaces of forest ecological sensitivity: An integrated MaxEnt–CatBoost framework
December 2026
Biodiversity models often rely on opportunistic species occurrence data. However, biases due to different sampling efforts or accessibility can confound biodiversity patterns and obscure ecologically...
Spatial and seasonal dynamics of soil CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes across forest ecosystems along a climatic gradient in China
December 2026
Forest soils play a critical role in regulating atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) budgets; however, coordinated multi-gas observations across broad climatic gradients remain limited, constraining our...
Satellite observations reveal that high pre-dieback productivity is associated with reduced forest stability in temperate forests
December 2026
Increasing frequency and intensity of heat and drought events under anthropogenic climate change has triggered widespread forest mortality and canopy dieback worldwide. Previous studies have suggested...
Mixing non-native Douglas fir with native tree species is not enough to avoid negative impacts on overwintering birds
December 2026
Forest conversion toward climate-resilient non-native tree species is increasingly promoted in temperate Europe, yet biodiversity responses outside the main growing season remain poorly studied. In...
Tree species physically and chemically engineer their local environments, shaping forest floor and topsoil carbon stocks
December 2026
Tree species are increasingly recognized as key drivers of soil biogeochemical processes, yet their combined chemical and physical effects on forest floor dynamics, microclimate, and mineral topsoil...
Forest management volume inventory using lidar-based endogenous post-stratification
December 2026
Endogenous post-stratification (EPS) is a statistical method used to approximate traditional post-stratification when population-level counts are unknown. It involves assigning sample units to strata...
A shadow-aware deep learning framework for classifying urban tree species from very high-resolution Pléiades imagery
December 2026
Accurate urban tree species distribution information is essential for urban green space planning and management missions, including urban cooling assessment, carbon sequestration estimation, biodiversity...
Understory functional trait adaptation to climate change is primarily mediated by soil conditions under long-term afforestation on the Loess Plateau
August 2026
Soil and climate conditions drive plant trait variation in natural ecosystems. However, afforestation induces rapid and significant shifts in these environmental drivers. Yet the extent to which such...
Dominant species stability outweighs species asynchrony and diversity in regulating temperate forest regeneration
August 2026
Climate change increasingly threatens forest regeneration by disrupting seedling dynamics, yet the stabilizing mechanisms underpinning these critical early life stages remain poorly understood. Using...
Heterogeneous effects of aerosols on terrestrial ecosystems in China
August 2026
Ecological impacts of aerosols on vegetation remain highly uncertain due to their capacity for both modifying radiation and causing phytotoxic damage. China has experienced the most rapid air quality...
Microbial necromass underpins long-term soil carbon stability and ecosystem carbon persistence in pine reforestations
August 2026
The long-term carbon (C) sequestration potential of plantations hinges on the dynamics and persistence of mature forest C sinks, yet how C storage and stability evolve with increasing forest age remains...
Dynamic parameterization of the nutrient resorption process in forest ecosystems with a hybrid model
August 2026
Nutrient resorption is a key process through which plants optimize resource use in nutrient-limited environments. Global nutrient addition experiments and meta-analyses have revealed high variability...
The Tale of Tail Dependence: Modeling height–diameter relationships with elliptical copulas
August 2026
Modeling height–diameter (H–D) relationships is fundamental to forest management. Copula could be used to simulate H–D distributions that mirror the underlying dependence structures of an observed relationship....
Improving peer review capacity and integrity in forestry journals
August 2026
The peer review process in forestry journals has remained largely unchanged despite significant shifts in the academic publishing landscape over the past decade. Using data from 156 forestry journals...
Extraction of eucalyptus age and estimation of its aboveground biomass in China with the integration of empirical model and machine learning algorithm
August 2026
Eucalyptus plantations are extensively distributed in tropical and subtropical regions and play important roles in timber production, economic development, and regional carbon cycles. Due to its fast...
Examining strategies to project tree diameter for unobserved species in diverse tropical forests using mixed-effects models
August 2026
Mixed-effects models with species as a random effect have provided a practical solution to produce reliable predictions of tree growth. Applying them to new datasets can be challenging because species-specific...
Understanding flash drought variations in China's planted and natural forests through machine learning counterfactual analysis
August 2026
China's rapid forestation over the past decades has reshaped regional ecohydrology and raised concerns of intensifying drought. Here, we explore the historical drought variations and driving factors...
Bryophytes as bioindicators in natural pine forests on mineral soils in Poland
August 2026
Although bryophytes are often underrepresented in vegetation classifications, our study demonstrates their crucial role in differentiating pine forest communities and highlights their untapped potential...