Forest Growth Response to Environmental Stress
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2016) | Viewed by 89023
Special Issue Editors
Interests: treeline ecotone; dendrochronology; wood anatomy; biodiversity & conservation; climate change
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Interests: forest management; dendroecology; biogeography, forest dynamics; tree decline; ecological models; global change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There exists a great concern on the effects of environmental stressors on 21st-century forests. Drought, heat, and cold spells, climate warming, land-use changes, wildfires, pollution and other local stressors negatively affect forest growth and vitality. These threats could reduce the multiple ecosystem services forests provide to humans. Such negative effects on forests may be direct or indirect through the predisposition to forest pests and pathogens. Researchers must be able to quantify forest growth responses to environmental stressors in the long-term, using for instance tree-ring data, so as to provide assessments of forest resilience to environmental stress.
In this Special Issue of Forests, we aim to fill this gap by asking for manuscripts which constitute original contributions on studies evaluating the impact of environmental stress on forest growth, emphasizing quantitative on the responses of forest growth and vigor to persistent or acute stressors. This Special Issue proposes multidisciplinary contributions using varied disciplines such as dendroecology, ecophysiology, functional ecology, forest pathology, remote sensing and models. Authors should address ecological and management aspects, including mitigation and adaptation, of environmental risks globally faced by forests.
Dr. Jesus Julio Camarero
Dr. Raúl Sánchez-Salguero
Dr. Juan Carlos Linares
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Environmental Stress
- Forest Growth
- Climate Warming
- Dendroecology
- Forest Vulnerability
- Forest Vitality
- Climatic Risks
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