The Journal of Forestry Research offers articles dealing with all aspects of forestry. It is primarily a medium for reporting original theoretical and experimental research, as well as technical reviews. Approximately 65 per cent of the papers published in the journal are by international researchers; the balance is contributed by Chinese scientists, professors and doctoral degree students.
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Temporal changes in mixing effects on litter decay and nitrogen release in a boreal riparian forest in northeastern China
12/01/2024
Abstract In riparian forests, litter decay provides essential energy and nutrients for both terrestrial and fluvial ecosystems. Litter mixing effects (LMEs) are crucial in regulating litter decay and nutrient dynamics, yet how LMEs change over time is unclear in riparian forests. In this ...
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Temporal and environmental factors drive community structure and function of methanotrophs in volcanic forest soils
12/01/2024
Abstract Methanotrophs, organisms that obtain oxygen by oxidizing methane, are recognized as the only known biological sink for atmospheric CH4, and forest soil methanotrophs play crucial roles in mitigating global warming. The succession patterns of methanotrophic communities and functions in Wudalianchi volcano ...
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Afforestation increases microbial diversity in low-carbon soils
12/01/2024
Abstract Afforestation has an important role in biodiversity conservation and ecosystem function improvement. A meta-analysis was carried out in China, which has the largest plantation area globally, to quantify the effects of plantings on soil microbial diversity. The results showed that the overall ...
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Climate warming is significantly influenced by rising summer maximum temperatures: insights from tree-ring evidence of the Western Tianshan Mountains, China
03/26/2024
Abstract As one of the regions most affected by global climate warming, the Tianshan mountains has experienced several ecological crises, including retreating glaciers and water deficits. Climate warming in these mountains is considered mainly to be caused by increases in minimum temperatures and ...
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Tall, large-diameter trees and dense shrub layer as key determinants of the abundance and composition of bird communities in oak-dominated ...
03/26/2024
Abstract Increasing human activity is altering the structure of forests, which affects the composition of communities, including birds. However, little is known about the key forest structure variables that determine the richness of bird communities in European temperate oak forests. We, therefore, aimed ...
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Litterfall production modeling based on climatic variables and nutrient return from stands of Eucalyptus grandis Hill ex Maiden and Pinus ...
03/21/2024
Abstract Native grasslands in the Pampas of South America are increasingly being replaced by Eucalyptus and Pinus stands. The short rotation regimes used for the stands require high nutrient levels, with litterfall being a major source of nutrient return. To model ...
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Differential response of radial growth and δ13C in Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia) to climate change on the southern and northern ...
03/20/2024
Abstract Tree radial growth can have significantly different responses to climate change depending on the environment. To elucidate the effects of climate on radial growth and stable carbon isotope (δ13C) fractionation of Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia), a widely distributed native conifer ...
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Dominant woody plant species recognition with a hierarchical model based on multimodal geospatial data for subtropical forests
03/20/2024
Abstract Since the launch of the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform in 2010, it has been widely used, leading to a wealth of valuable information. However, the potential of GEE for forest resource management has not been fully exploited. To extract dominant ...
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Why lowland riparian trees are difficult to use for streamflow reconstruction
03/20/2024
Abstract Existing streamflow reconstructions based on tree-ring analysis mostly rely on species from upland, mainly montane areas, while lowland species (generally plain) areas are rarely used. This limits the understanding of streamflow change history in the lowlands, which is an important basis for ...
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Long-term thinning decreases the contribution of heterotrophic respiration to soil respiration in subalpine plantations
03/19/2024
Abstract Interest in the dynamics of soil respiration (Rs) in subalpine forest ecosystems is increasing due to their high soil carbon density and potential sensitivity to environmental changes. However, as a principal silvicultural practice, the long-term impacts of thinning on ...
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Method to measure tree-ring width, density, elemental composition, and stable carbon and oxygen isotopes using one sample
03/08/2024
Abstract Tree-ring width (RW), density, elemental composition, and stable carbon and oxygen isotope (δ13C, δ18O) are widely used as proxies to assess climate change, ecology, and environmental pollution; however, a specific pretreatment has been needed for each proxy. Here, we developed ...
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Butterfly taxonomic and functional diversity in the urban green spaces of Hefei city
03/04/2024
Abstract Urbanization has profound impacts on ecological environments. Green spaces are a vital component of urban ecosystems and play a crucial role in maintaining ecological balance and enhancing sustainability. This study aimed to investigate the community composition characteristics of butterflies in urban green ...
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Unveiling evapotranspiration patterns and energy balance in a subalpine forest of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: observations and analysis from an eddy ...
02/25/2024
Abstract Evapotranspiration is an important parameter used to characterize the water cycle of ecosystems. To understand the properties of the evapotranspiration and energy balance of a subalpine forest in the southeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, an open-path eddy covariance system was set up to monitor ...
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Litter production and leaf nutrient concentration and remobilization in response to climate seasonality in the central Amazon
02/25/2024
Abstract Litterfall is the largest source of nutrients to forest soils of tropical rainforests. However, variability in litterfall production, nutrient remobilization, and changes in leaf nutrient concentration with climate seasonality remain largely unknown for the central Amazon. This study measured litterfall production, leaf ...
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Carbon sequestration in a bamboo plantation: a case study in a Mediterranean area
02/24/2024
Abstract In the Mediterranean region, despite bamboo being an alien species that can seriously alter plant and animal biocoenosis, the area occupied by bamboo plantations continues to increase, especially for the purpose to sequester carbon (C). However, the C dynamics in the soil–plant ...
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Effects of tree size and organ age on variations in carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stoichiometry in Pinus koraiensis
02/24/2024
Abstract Carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) are of fundamental importance for growth and nutrient dynamics within plant organs and deserve more attention at regional to global scales. However, our knowledge of how these nutrients vary with tree size, organ age, or ...
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Climatic implications in earlywood and latewood width indices of Chinese pine in north central China
02/21/2024
Abstract Latewood width (LWW) indices of trees are considered a reliable proxy of summer precipitation in the Northern Hemisphere. However, the strong coupling and high correlation between earlywood width (EWW) and LWW indices often prevent registration of climate signals of the LWW index. ...
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Radial growth in Qinghai spruce is most sensitive to severe drought in the Qilian Mountains of Northwest China
02/15/2024
Abstract Global warming and frequent extreme drought events lead to tree death and extensive forest decline, but the underlying mechanism is not clear. In drought years, cambial development is more sensitive to climate change, but in different phenological stages, the response relationship is ...
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Interpreting Larix principis-rupprechtii radial growth in northern China based on the Vaganov-Shashkin model
02/10/2024
Abstract Changes in annual radial growth is an important indication of climate change. Dendroclimatology studies in northern China have focused on linear statistical analysis, but lacking studies based on the process of ring formation to clarify the radial growth of trees. Tree-ring width ...
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Dieback of managed spruce stands in western Germany promotes beetle diversity
02/10/2024
Abstract Biodiversity loss is a significant problem at a global scale and may be amplified by climate change. In recent years, coniferous forests have had substantial dieback across Europe due to drought and subsequent bark-beetle outbreaks. As many studies on the consequences of ...
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Eco-physiological characteristics of Tetracentron sinense Oliv. saplings in response to different light intensities
02/09/2024
Abstract The regeneration of Tetracentron sinense Oliv. is poor in the understory and in open areas due to the characteristics of natural regeneration of the species on forest edges and in gaps. It is unclear whether different light intensities in various habitats ...
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Wood anatomy chronologies of Scots pine in the foothills of the Western Sayan (Siberia)
02/09/2024
Abstract Recent methodological advances in quantitative wood anatomy have provided new insights into the climatic responses of radial growth at the scale of cell structure of tree rings. This study considered long-term chronologies of tracheid measurements, indexed by a novel approach to separate ...
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Cloning of sft-4 and its influence on vitality and virulence of pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus
02/07/2024
Abstract In our previous screening of the transcriptome of the causal agent of the devastating pine wilt disease, pine wood nematode (PWN, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus), after treatment with the nematicide fomepizole, Surfeit locus gene sft-4, which encodes a regulatory factor, was found ...
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A new approach to pedestal differentiation for soil loss estimation—a case study from a burnt area in north-central Portugal
02/07/2024
Abstract Soil pedestals have long been used as qualitative indicators of soil splash erosion. In rangelands, plant-capped pedestals, generally grass tussocks, have also been used to quantitatively estimate soil loss since the first half of the twentieth century. In agricultural lands, forests, and ...
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Stability assessment of tree ring growth of Pinus armandii Franch in response to climate change based on slope directions at ...
02/07/2024
Abstract Global warming will affect growth strategies and how trees will adapt. To compare the response of tree radial growth to climate warming in different slope directions, samples of Pinus armandii Franch were collected and tree-ring chronologies developed on northern and western ...
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Effects of thinning and understory removal on water use efficiency of Pinus massoniana: evidence from photosynthetic capacity and stable carbon ...
02/07/2024
Abstract Understanding the relationship between forest management and water use efficiency (WUE) is important for evaluating forest adaptability to climate change. However, the effects of thinning and understory removal on WUE and its key controlling processes are not well understood, which limits our ...
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Differences and similarities in radial growth of Betula species to climate change
02/05/2024
Abstract Betula platyphylla and Betula costata are important species in mixed broadleaved-Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) forests. However, the specific ways in which their growth is affected by warm temperatures and drought remain unclear. To address this issue, 60 and 62 ...
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Aging Mongolian pine plantations face high risks of drought-induced growth decline: evidence from both individual tree and forest stand measurements
01/25/2024
Abstract Discerning vulnerability differences among different aged trees to drought-driven growth decline or to mortality is critical to implement age-specific countermeasures for forest management in water-limited areas. An important species for afforestation in dry environments of northern China, Mongolian pine (Pinus sylvestris ...
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More tree growth reduction due to consecutive drought and its legacy effect for a semiarid larch plantation in Northwest China
01/25/2024
Abstract Extreme climate has increasingly led to negative impacts on forest ecosystems globally, especially in semiarid areas where forest ecosystems are more vulnerable. However, it is poorly understood how tree growth is affected by different drought events. In 2006–2009, the larch plantations in ...
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April–September minimum temperature reconstruction based on Sabina tibetica ring-width chronology in the central eastern Tibetan Plateau, China
01/19/2024
Abstract Minimum temperatures have remarkable impacts on tree growth at high-elevation sites on the Tibetan Plateau, but the shortage of long-term and high-resolution paleoclimate records inhibits understanding of recent minimum temperature anomalies. In this study, a warm season (April–September) reconstruction is presented for ...
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