Sustainable Forestry

Recent Advances in Assessment, Prevention and Restoration Techniques for Sustainable Forest Management

Submission deadline: 2023-08-05
Special Issue Editors

Special Issue Information

Dear colleagues,


A forest is the evolution product of long-term interaction between forest organisms and their natural environment. The forests are Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystems that provide important services locally and globally (i.e., climate regulation, carbon cycling, remediation of soils, food resources). It has high biodiversity, complex community structure, rich habitat characteristics, and good ecosystem stability. It plays a vital and irreplaceable role in protecting the ecological environment, ensuring agricultural production, maintaining biodiversity, mitigating natural disasters, and adjusting the global carbon balance and biogeochemical cycle. Therefore, forest restoration is an important global objective to safeguard the ongoing contributions to people and biodiversity during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Integrating the knowledge and understanding of how multiple factors can affect forest ecosystems and shape forest recovery against various biotic and abiotic stresses can significantly increase the effectiveness of attempts to mitigate climate, food security, and biodiversity crises.

The research on forest protection, ecological restoration, and sustainable management is significant to global forest resources. All techniques related to these aspects play an important role in tree survival, growth, and morphophysiological characteristics, ultimately impacting the forest ecosystem. Specifically, understanding the processes associated with improving management criteria for different restoration methods. This Special Issue aims to provide a valuable reference for assessing, protecting, restoring, and sustaining forests.

 

Dr. Taimoor Hassan Farooq
Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Dr. He Li

Guest Editors



Planned Papers

Keywords

Structure and Function; Growth Pattern and Management Practice; Active and Passive Restoration; Forest Resilience; Forest Silviculture; Root and Canopy Development; Morphological and Physiological Impacts; Socio-economic and Ecological Interactions; Climate and Environmental Change; Multifunctional Ecosystem Services; Mapping and Assessment of Land Use Change; Soil Remediation; Modernizing Forestry; Abiotic and Biotic Stresses

Published Paper