Tree Growth and Physiological Properties Under Ongoing Global Climate Change: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 758
Special Issue Editor
Interests: silviculture; forest ecology; forest management; climate change; tree adaptation; resource use
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is known that forest ecosystems, as a significant sink of atmospheric carbon, play a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle, especially under ongoing global climate change (GCC). GCC, characterized by weather and climatic anomalies that primarily include increasing air temperatures and changes in the precipitation distribution during the growing season, significantly affect the provision of forest ecosystem services. GCC also increases forest ecosystems' vulnerability to abiotic and biotic stressors. Therefore, forest adaptation measures promoting tree/ecosystem resistance, resilience, vitality, growth, stability, and sustainability of material and energy fluxes are necessary to ensure secure and sustainable producing and non-producing forest functions.
The submission of new original research and review papers devoted to "carbon forestry" worldwide is encouraged for this Special Issue.
Potential topics include the following:
- Adaptation strategy;
- Anatomical/physiological/morphological adaptability;
- Carbon sequestration;
- GCC mitigation;
- Multiple ecosystem services;
- Resource use;
- Resilience/resistance of tree species;
- Sustainable forest management.
Dr. Jakub Černý
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- forest management
- forest growth and productivity
- sustainable silviculture
- forest adaptation
- tree resilience
- physiological traits
- forest acclimation
- resource use
- carbon sequestration
- global climate change
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