The sources of raw wood for industries in Iran are forest, imports, wood cultivation and garden waste. However, Restrictions on imports and bans on logging in forest areas in recent years have caused greater attention to wood cultivation and in particular to poplar cultivation. Despite the...

The international community is paying more and more attention to the role of forests in CO₂ absorption. This study aims the broad leaved forest carbon sinks in China, on the basis of research on coniferous forest carbon sinks in 1981 and 2014, the paper analyses the changes in broad leaved forest...

The research is aimed at a comprehensive assessment of the forest site resources deposited in a birch blueberry forest. The relevance of the work is based on the increasing interest of countries and regions in the diversity of forest ecosystem resources. A material and financial assessment of the...

Patterns of trait expression within some plant species have recently been shown to align with the leaf economics spectrum paradigm. Resistance to herbivores is also expected to covary with leaf economics traits. We selected 36 mature Populus tremuloides genotypes in a common garden to assess...

A comparative analysis of the rate of return on investments in a fast-growing poplar plantation in South Bulgaria and in two-room residential apartments in Sofia (average area 68 sq.m.) (including a room and a bedroom), differentiated by districts has been made. The investigation is based on the...

The main goal of this review was to provide an assessment of the potential of fast-growing tree species for the suitable transformation of agroforestry areas for biomass production in the Baltic Sea region. Our interest was to highlight the research on the management process of agroforestry zones...

This special issue contains 24 papers which highlights the chances and addresses the main challenges for short rotation coppices (SRC) with poplars (Populus spp.) as agricultural crops for the sustainable bio-economy. Topics covered include: (1) challenges of generating adapted plant material in...

Forests have a huge potential to produce timber and sequester carbon in a joint process. Thus, afforestation projects have been widely undertaken across countries to achieve poverty alleviation and environment protection goals, specifically in reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Our study...

The present study was undertaken in Yamunanagar district of Haryana. The study revealed that on an average, economics of poplar plantation during 2012-2013 in Yamunanagar district showed that the growers had to incur losses of Rs 33420, Rs 45973, Rs 57142, Rs 63074, Rs 67003 and Rs 73532 per...