Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research

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Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· 8d

First European record of the East Asian bark beetle on white mulberry 🪲 Pastirčák et al. use morphological trait and molecular analyses to document the occurrence of the East Asian bark beetle on the culturally and economically important tree species in Slovakia. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

A figure showing a map of the native and introduced occurrence of east asian bark beetle (top) and bottom three photos show the host plant white mulberry, adult female east asian bark beetle and gallery pattern on an infected host plant.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· 14d

New research out: A new model for estimating tree diameter distributions 📊 Georgakis et al. present the Trivariate Compositional Fay–Herriot (TriCompFH) model which has practical applications for bridging forest inventory data with silvicultural decision-making. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Diameter distribution of trees per hectare (2-cm classes and aggregated diameter at breast height classes) across all sample plots. Horizontal lines indicate the mean stem density (trees ha−1) for each aggregated DBH class.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· 21d

Mistletoe maps 📍 Walas et al. use species distribution modelling to map pine mistletoe hotspots across 403 forest districts in Poland. Read more about their study and recommendations for forest management 👇 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Two maps showing potential suitability for pine mistletoe (Viscum album subsp. austriacum) according to the MaxEnt model. (A, top map) Detailed model for the forests; (B, bottom map) model extrapolated to the whole area of Poland. Main rivers are shown.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· 24d

How does thinning impact the eco-physiology of canopies across scales? 🌲📈 Cachinero-Vivar and colleagues present a multi-trait and multi-scale monitoring framework to evaluate thinning trials in two mediterranean pines. Read more about their approach here: doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Overview of the multi-trait and multi-scale study on thinning in pines. The schematic shows the combined measurements from xylem water storage (dendrometry) to canopy biophysics (remote sensing) and ecosystem fluxes (eddy covariance).

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· 27d

Out now: Overcoming barriers to applying deep learning to fine woody debris mapping. 🍂 Fakhri and Fassnacht lay out a workflow to train a deep learning-based model able to map fine woody debris using synthetic training data only. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Workflow for generating synthetic RGB and binary image pairs for fine woody debris segmentation.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Jul 14

July issue is out! Articles include: 🛰️ Predicting forest age using airborne laser scanning data ⬇️ Reducing overharvest risk in the Brazilian Amazon 💦 Adaptive water use strategies in pines 🌳 Trait-environment interactions in subtropical seasonal trees. And more: academic.oup.com/forestry/iss...

July issue of Forestry announcement showing a selection of the topics covered in the issue. Text reads: Predicting forest age using airborne laser scanning and Sentinel-2 data. Reducing overharvest risk in the Brazilian Amazon. Adaptive water use strategies of Mongolian pine plantations. Trait-environment interactions in subtropical seasonal tree communities. And more! There is a weblink to the journal issue.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Jul 8

Drivers of leaf litter decomposition 🍂 A study by Mancinelli and colleagues assessed effect of leaf non-structural carbohydrate content on litter decomposition in mixed tree plantations. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Three plots showing the positive relationship between biomass loss and leaf litter concentrations of total non-structural carbohydrates, soluble non-structural carbohydrates, and starch. Both total and soluble non-structural carbohydrates showed significant postive correlation with biomass loss, where as starch showed weak association with biomass loss.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Jul 3

Out now: Naseri et al. evaluate artificial intelligence–based deep learning models for crown dieback and dead trees detection from digital aerial images. 🛰️🌳 Read more here 👇 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

A visual abstract for the study on crown dieback and dead trees detection from digital aerial images. The key details about the input data, methods and results found are shown as diagrams and bullet points.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Jun 26

Heatwaves are in the news, but how are trees impacted? 🌡️ Sheppard and colleagues investigated the effect of high temperatures on seedling survival in 7 key conifer species of the Acadian Forest of eastern Canada. 🌱📉 Read here: doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Two-parameter log-logistic model-predicted probability of mortality under 12 levels of warming for balsam fir (BF), black spruce (BS), eastern hemlock (EH), red spruce (RS), and white spruce (WS) seedlings over one growing season. Red dashed line represents the projected temperature for the end of the century under Shared Socio-economic Pathways 5–8.5 (5.7°C above baseline temperature; IPCC 2023)

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Jun 22

Identifying forest stand susceptibility to bark beetle outbreaks 🪲 🛰️ Candotti and Tomelleri use remote sensing-derived indices to assess drivers of bark beetle infestations in the alpine region of South Tyrol. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Four plots showing the annual probability of bark beetle disturbance (%) divided by model based on (a, top left) western subset 2022, (b, top right) eastern subset 2022, (c, bottom left) western subset 2023, and (d, bottom right) eastern subset 2023 on spruce cover at the regional scale.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Jun 18

Ash dieback dynamics 🍂 Schertler and colleagues review recent studies on the resistance and tolerance mechanisms of common ash against the ash dieback pathogen (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus). They also discuss the relevance to ash conservation and breeding programs. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

A drawing showing how the defence of common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) against ash dieback caused by Hymenoscyphus fraxineus can conceptually act at different levels: leaves and woody stem tissues. Drawing by V. Dubach, Swiss Forest Protection, WSL, Switzerland.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Jun 12

Forests as hydrological regulators 🌳🌧️ Deng et al. examine the interaction between soil water and rainfall events in headwater forests in China. Read more about their study and implications for forest management 👇 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

A figure showing the location of the study area (c) in Guilin (b), China (a), and photographs of the sampling sites in the bamboo forest (d), fir forest (e), and mixed forest (f).

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Jun 8

Cross-sector collaboration in forest policy in the Republic of Korea. Kim et al. use the Collective Impact framework to assess how different actors involved in Korean forest policy change over time. 📈 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

NetDraw images over the four stages (creation, growth, expansion and stable) in each policy keyword (afforestation, urban forest, forest culture and inter-Korean forest cooperation). Different colors refer to the different sectors, and different shapes refer to different roles of key actors in the network. The size of the node refers to the frequency of the organization mentioned in news articles.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Jun 5

How effective is self-supervised learning for aboveground biomass estimation? Seely et al. apply deep learning methods to airborne laser scanning data for modelling aboveground biomass in a boreal mixed wood forest in Ontario, Canada. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

A figure showing a subset of unlabelled sample plots in the Romeo-Malette Forest used for self-supervised learning pretraining. Unlabelled plots are sampled along a grid with a distance of 110 m between plots. Two unlabelled point clouds (a & b) are shown with their associated plot locations.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· May 28

Out now: 🤝 Combining Sentinel-2 time-series and SITS-BERT for area-wide mapping of eight central European tree species by Költzow et al. Read more about the potential of deep learning for large-scale forest species mapping. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Overview of the study area in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany and the three areas of interest.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· May 22

Sustainable forest management in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots 🌳 Gomes et al. evaluate the ecological effects of logging residue removal on floristic composition and natural regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore... #BiodiversityDay

A figure with three panels showing the study area: (a, top image) location of the Tapajós National Forest, municipality of Belterra, state of Pará, Brazil. (b, middle image) Location of the three evaluated annual timber production units, managed 2, 6, and 10 years after logging, including inventory plots. (c, bottom set of images) Landscape images of the three annual timber production units at different regeneration stages under both treatments.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· May 20

Framework for forest inventory mapping 🗺️ Okhrimenko and colleagues develop spatially transferable airborne laser scanning models of aboveground biomass in boreal forests. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Maps showing the study area, that comprises most of the southern region of the Northwest Territories Taiga Plains ecozone in Canada. Peach-coloured blobs show forest inventory plots.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· May 8

Climate benefits of Nordic forestry revisited 🌲 Rummukainen examines the research development at the forestry-climate policy interface in the 10 years since the Paris Agreement 🤝 Read more here 👇 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Two figures showing the carbon uptake in the land use, land use change and forestry sector in Sweden (top) and Finland (bottom) between 1990–2024. Both countries show a decrease in net carbon sink in the early 2010's.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Apr 30

Our April issue is out with topics covering: 🌿Ash dieback resistance and tolerance 🍄 Soil fungus diversity in maritime pine 🔄 Drought effects on nutrient cycles in beech forests 🍁 Intra-canopy photogrammetry to assess sugar maple crown health Read more here 👇 academic.oup.com/forestry/iss...

Forestry April issue announcement. The text in bullet points reads: Mechanisms of resistance and tolerance to ash dieback. Soil fungus diversity in a maritime pine afforestation site. Assessing crown health in sugar maples using intra-canopy photogrammetry. Drought effects on biogeochemical nutrient cycling in mature beech forest. And more! There is a link to the webpage to access the April journal issue.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Apr 24

To round off mammal week, have a read of Zegadło et al.’s study in Białowieża Forest on the impact of coarse woody debris on habitat use of the yellow-necked mouse and bank vole. 🐁🌳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

A figure showing the location of the study area in Białowieża Forest, Poland and study sites.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Apr 22

A few facts about the importance of forests this Earth Day: 🗺️ Forests cover about 31% of the land surface. 🪵 2.6 billion people directly use forests for their food, fuel and livelihoods. 🌲 Forests help regulate the climate and capture 296 gigatonnes of carbon. www.fao.org/forests/en

A photo of the underside of tree crown taken from the ground. The sun is shining giving a dappled look to the overlapping leaves.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Apr 20

A new herbicide to control bracken in woodlands? Willoughby and colleagues examine the efficacy and tree tolerance of Amidosulfuron as a potential chemical-based control for bracken (Pteridium aquilinum). Read more here 👇 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Table showing the nine experimental treatments with percentage reduction in live bracken cover relative to the untreated control, and indicative susceptibility, 11 months after spraying.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Apr 17

Out now: Adaptive water use strategies of Mongolian pine plantations in response to mining subsidence across two soil types: a case study in Northwest China. 🌲 Read Wei et al.'s study here 👇 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

A figure with four panels showing the location of study area in Northwest China (top left), sampling sites of sandy soil and loess (top right), and on site pictures of subsidence plot with sandy soil (bottom left) and loess soil (bottom right).

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Apr 8

Out now: Climate-growth relationships in Douglas-fir 🌲 Guisset and colleagues show that temperature more strongly influences Douglas-fir radial growth than precipitation under European temperate conditions. 🌡️📈 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

A map showing the location of the 24 study sites in southern Belgium. In grey the Walloon region and in hatched lines the Belgian Ardennes.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Apr 8

Currently most read article in Forestry: A review by Papucci et al. on forest biomass assessments based on remote sensing 🛰️ Their study showed improvements in methodological quality over a 30-year period, but many technical and statistical inference challenges remain. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

A flow diagram showing an overview of the systematic approach applied for including articles to the review. Three databases are used (Google Scholar, Web of Sciences: Core Collection and Scopus. 4258 studies identified with a final collection of 80 articles meeting 5 inclusion criteria.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Mar 27

Out now: “Towards a near real-time remote sensing monitoring system of forest canopy cover loss in Bavaria, Germany” by Jaggy and colleagues. 🛰️ Read here 👇 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Four maps of Bavaria showing canopy cover loss. The maps show comparison of absolute (A and B) and relative (C and D) canopy cover loss between administrative districts (Landkreise) (A and C) and a regular hexagonal grid (B and D) and from August 2017 to 2024.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Mar 26

You can read Gardenia Gonçalves de Oliveira’s prize-winning paper "Optimizing forest residue management after harvesting: nutrient export scenarios in Eucalyptus plantations across high forest and coppice systems" here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

The 2025 announcement for the Silvicultural Prize with the Institute of Charted Foresters and the journal Forestry. The text reads: Silvicultural Prize 2025, Gardenia Gonçalves de Oliveira, Doctoral Candidate
UNESP – São Paulo State University. There is a screenshot of the article with the title: Optimizing forest residue management after harvesting: nutrient export scenarios in Eucalyptus plantations across high forest and coppice systems.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Mar 26

🌟Silvicultural Prize 2025 🌟 We are excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Silvicultural Prize is Doctoral Candidate Gardenia Gonçalves de Oliveira from UNESP – São Paulo State University! Read more about the Prize and Gardenia Gonçalves de Oliveira 👇 charteredforesters.org/silvicultura...

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Mar 20

Is gap-based silviculture without herbicide use a viable method for regeneration? 🌱🌲 In an experiment, York et al. evaluate the use of small canopy gaps as a method to regenerate a wildfire-impacted mixed-conifer forest. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...

Average light availability for herbicide vs no herbicide treatment for different harvest time intervals (2014-2023). Light availability increased from 21% to 68% following 2014 harvest.

Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research@forestryoup· Mar 13

Impacts of pathogens on tree species diversification efforts 🦠 Morton et al. conducted health surveys on 17 tree species to assess pathogen impacts and their implications for species diversification in UK forestry. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...