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Volume 14 Issue 2, December 2025
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Insights for effective applied research: Four case studies with advice for young researchers
Jerome K. Vanclay
Published: 01 December 2025
2025, 14(2)
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Changes in climate–growth relationships in Larix decidua revealed by daily climatic data in the Tatra Mountains
Katarzyna Izworska, Tomasz Zielonka, Elżbieta Muter
Published: 01 December 2025
2025, 14(2)
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Assessment of wood decay in middle-aged Norway spruce (Picea abies) stands in Estonia using PiCUS 3 Sonic Tomography
Toomas Tarmu, Risto Kiisk, Andres Kiviste, [...], Allan Sims, Diana Laarmann << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Old-growthness level assessed by structural heterogeneity indices in Mediterranean Quercus pubescens forests
Emilio Badalamenti, Donato Salvatore La Mela Veca, Massimiliano Costa, [...], Giovanni Giardina, Tommaso La Mantia, Andrea Laschi, Federico Guglielmo Maetzke, Serena Petroncini, Giovanna Sala, Rafael Silveira Bueno << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Scale-dependent variations in photosynthetic processes mediate net primary productivity in temperate forests
Xuerui Wang, Xuetao Qiao, Senxuan Lin, [...], Qingmin Yue, Minhui Hao, Jingyuan He, Rihan Da, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Context-dependent effects of woody layer complexity on arthropod biomass and abundance in deciduous forests
Bram Catfolis, Tosca Vanroy, Kris Verheyen, [...], Lander Baeten, An Martel, Frank Pasmans, Luc Lens, Diederik Strubbe << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Predicting gross primary productivity of poplar plantations based on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence using an improved machine learning model
Yiheng Wang, Zhipeng Li, Jinsong Zhang, [...], Joanna Simms, Xin Wang << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
2025, 14(2)
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A novel method for ULS-TLS forest point cloud registration based on height context descriptor
Xusong Dai, Hanwen Qi, Xiaochen Wang, [...], Yaozhan Xu, Qinghu Jiang, Qingjun Zhang, Xu Wang, Jianchang Chen, Guangzu Liu, Xinlian Liang << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
2025, 14(2)
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Drought intensity affects radial growth and recovery of P. schrenkiana at varying elevations in the Western Tianshan Mountains, China
Qiaoling Yang, Guili Sun, Guangyu Wang, [...], Kexiang Liu, Zhinian Yang, Li Qin, Arman Abula, Fan Xie, Ruibo Zhang << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Slope mediates drought sensitivity but does not affect drought recovery for young trees along elevation gradients in temperate planted larch forests
Jinglei Liao, Xianliang Zhang, Tim Rademacher, [...], Chen Xu, Mingchao Du, Fangqin Guo, Weixin Li, Jianwei Zheng, Yuewei Wu, Rubén D. Manzanedo << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Up-to-date high-resolution understory terrain extraction based on satellite stereo photogrammetry and spaceborne LiDAR
Hao Xiong, Bingtao Chang, Xiaodong Lan, [...], Huizhou Zhou, Yang Chen, Wuming Zhang << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Effects of forest management and habitat continuity on the genetic structure and ecological corridors of target epiphytic moss species: A landscape genetic study of Dicranum viride
Adrian Wysocki, Sylwia Wierzcholska, Jarosław Proćków, Kamil Konowalik
Published: 01 December 2025
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Biodiversity in primary vs. managed forests: Biological legacies of old living and large dead trees drive lichen diversity
Daniela Dúhová, Jeňýk Hofmeister, Garrett W. Meigs, [...], Josef Halda, Daniel Kozák, Matej Ferenčík, Rhiannon Gloor, Katarína Markuljaková, Jakob Pavlin, Ivo Pardus, Audrey R. Salerno, Michal Frankovič, Pavel Janda, Martin Dušátko, Miroslav Svoboda, Martin Mikoláš << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Developing and evaluating satellite-derived phenology and physiology indicators for modeling annual gross primary productivity variability
Hanliang Gui, Qinchuan Xin, Xuewen Zhou, [...], Ying Sun, Yongjian Ruan, Wei Wu, Zhenhua Xiong, Yuhang Tian, Kun Xiao << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Potential for improved groundwater recharge and dry-season flows through forest landscape restoration on degraded lands in the tropics
L. Adrian Bruijnzeel, Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia, Douglas Sheil, [...], Alan D. Ziegler, Jun Zhang, Bob W. Zwartendijk, Christian Birkel, Ge Sun, Yanhui Wang, Xiaoping Zhang << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Tree competition in West African tropical forests mediated by the functional attributes of species and variation in soil moisture
Forzia Ibrahim, Arne Buechling, Stephen Adu-Bredu, [...], Shalom Addo-Danso, Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi, Yadvinder Malhi, Martin Svátek, Radim Matula << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Impact of broadleaf tree introduction on rhizosphere fungal communities and root phosphorus-cycling genes in conifers of near-natural transformed plantations
Zhanpeng Ye, Chen Ning, Ting Liu, [...], Meirong Yan, Wenyan Cai, Jiyang Xiao, Wende Yan << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Dynamics of fine root biomass and morphology of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forest stands along a soil moisture gradient
Alexandra Koller, Alina Azekenova, Patrick Wordell-Dietrich, [...], Robin Schäfferling, Lilli Zeh, Stefan Julich, Karsten Kalbitz, Karl-Heinz Feger, Goddert von Oheimb << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
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Black locust under long-term rainfall exclusion treatment changed its drought-resistance strategy to an adventurous pattern that potentially raised the risk of hydraulic damage
Mei-Jun Liu, Le Chang, Qiu-Wen Chen, [...], Jinhong Guan, Guoqing Li, Sheng Du << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
2025, 14(2)
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Variation in pine growth response to site preparation methods in the Lower Coastal Plain of the southeastern US
Dehai Zhao, Bronson P. Bullock, Stephen M. Kinane, Mingliang Wang
Published: 01 December 2025
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Size heterogeneity, growth dominance development, and relationships with stand growth in unthinned and thinned loblolly pine plantations
C.Z. Chen, Y.H. Weng, J. Grogan, L.M. Fang
Published: 01 December 2025
2025, 14(2)
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Multidimensional factors influencing ecosystem services and their relationships in alpine ecosystems: A case study of the Daxing'anling forest area, Inner Mongolia
Laixian Xu, Jiang He, Youjun He, [...], Liang Zhang, Hui Xu, Chunwei Tang << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
2025, 14(2)
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Adding a storage pool improves 3-PG tree-ring simulations
Yanfang Wang, Liang Wei, Liheng Zhong, [...], Xizi Yu, Pengtao Huang, Fang Wang, John D. Marshall << Fewer
Published: 01 December 2025
2025, 14(2)