Shrub encroachment is a global phenomenon occurring in a wide range of ecosystems, including in tree plantations, which is known to affect ecosystem functioning and productivity. Forest management in tree plantations (e.g. shrub clearing, tree thinning and pruning) often aims to increase wood and...

The presence of natural forests in association with the planted forests has become a common quite landscape in the Mediterranean basin and even elsewhere. Understanding how native game bird use the different types of forest habitats is a major issue aiming at an effective assessment of their...

Forests contribute directly to ecosystem structure and functioning, maintaining biodiversity, acting as a climate regulator and reducing desertification. To better manage forests, it is essential to have high-resolution forest models and appropriate spatial-explicit variables able to explain tree...

Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) seeks to make sure a performance of forest ecosystems environmental and socioeconomically just. The cork oak forest management presents a complex problem because silvicultural peculiarities. The aim of the SFM, to guarantee a functioning of forest ecosystems...

Determining site quality is essential in order to develop sustainable forest management, allowing more appropriate silvicultural decisions to be made. However, most studies carried out in Spain have focused on a few species and at local scale, which makes it difficult to apply the findings or...

Mountain forest ecosystems and other biodiversity reserves represent "safety nets" for many communities for their livelihoods. They are economi-cally important sources of wood, fodder, food and non-wood forest prod-ucts. Controlling. the sustainable management of forest ecosystems neces-sarily...

Climate change is impacting locally adapted species such as the keystone tree species cork oak (Quercus suber L.). Quantifying the importance of environmental variables in explaining the species distribution can help build resilient populations in restoration projects and design forest management...

The establishment and interpretation of diameter and height structures are essential for forest management decisions. The objective of this study is to describe the effect of altitude on the diameter structure, height structure and spacing factor of Q. suber and Q. canariensis populations in the...

The Machrouha forest (Algeria) is used for forestry and ecotourism. Managed by the Conservation des Forêts de Souk Ahras, this forest is made up of several silvicultural species (cork oak and Zeen oak) spanning an area of 16.448 ha. This work aims to assess the current state of health of this...

Plant diversity is a core value of forests and is rapidly becoming a primary management goal under the threat of global environmental changes. Changing conditions, including forestry interventions, or lack of them, may endanger its preservation. Abandonment of management in forests previously...