Long Term Dynamics of Conifer Forests
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 July 2022) | Viewed by 5016
Special Issue Editors
Interests: palynology; vegetation history; paleoclimate; human impact on forests; coastal environments; quaternary
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Interests: conservation genetics; fossil record; phylogeography; molecular ecology; species distribution modelling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Conifers represent a systematically well-defined group of seed plants, with a well understood distribution encompassing all continents except Antarctica. Some areas of the world are characterized by few species with almost pan-continental distributions, dominating entire biomes such as in the Northern Hemisphere. Conversely, other regions are occupied by a multitude of conifer species with highly fragmented ranges, such as the Pacific Ocean Rim. This may reflect the legacy of long-term forest dynamics influenced by evolutionary, biotic, climatic, and anthropic processes, the knowledge of which can make a crucial contribution to more appropriate and effective conservation strategies. Many aspects of the long-term dynamics of conifer forests are of interest, including extinction, persistence, genetic differentiation, range fragmentation, vicariance, migration, and adaptive capacity. This Special Issue aims to investigate these topics through the collation of research articles based on palaeoecological, biogeographic, genetic, and phylogeographical approaches.
We welcome contributions on the dynamics of conifer populations/species from local to continental scales with temporal resolution from millions of years to decades, aimed at defining the processes leading to their current spatial distribution, and better understanding the genetic and ecological characteristics of conifer forests.
Dr. Federico Di Rita
Dr. James Raymond Peter Worth
Dr. Donatella Magri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- paleoecology
- biogeography
- forest conservation
- tree genetics
- persistence
- extinction
- vulnerability
- adaptation
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