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Spread and Damage of Invasive Forest Insects
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Spread and Damage of Invasive Forest Insects

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 394

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Tara Canelo

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Guest Editor
1. Department Ingeniería del Medio Agronómico y Forestal, INDEHESA, Universidad de Extremadura, 10600 Plasencia, Spain
2. Centro de Ecologia Aplicada “Prof. Baeta Neves” (CEABN), Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), Universidade de Lisboa, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: insect
Dr. Luis Reino

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CIBIO/InBIO, University of Porto, 7000-890 Évora, Portugal
Interests: ecology; land-use and global change; invasion ecology; habitat fragmentation; conservation biology
Dr. Bruno Foggi

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Guest Editor
Department of Biology, University of Florence, Via G. La Pira 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy
Interests: vegetation mapping; alien invasion; phytosociology; conservation of diversity
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Invasive forest insects have had a significant impact on forests worldwide. The current process of globalization and the climate change situation raise the risk of insect invasions and forces us to face a great challenge for biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Non-native insects have demonstrated comparative advantages over native insects. They disrupt coevolutionary interactions, evading predators, pathogens and parasitoids and/or exploiting new food sources, which further leads to unpredictable trophic cascade effects. Consequently, biodiversity, forest production, the economic viability of forest ecosystems and, eventually, human health are under threat.

This Special Issue aims to synthesize current understandings of the mechanisms and consequences of alien insects on forestry systems. We welcome articles that address ecology, biodiversity, prevention and early detection, management and mitigation, food security, forest production, economic consequences and human health in relation to the spread of invasive species.

Submitted manuscripts must be original contributions and should not be previously published work. Papers published or submitted for publication in conference proceedings may be considered, provided that they are considerably extended and improved.

Dr. Tara Canelo
Dr. Luis Reino
Dr. Bruno Foggi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Forests is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • forests
  • invasive insects
  • spread
  • forest health
  • invasion ecology

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