Communicating about and garnering acceptance of management strategies remains a pervasive challenge. Advanced information communication technologies (ICT), including augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR, respectively), show promise to meaningfully engage visitors, increase their understanding...

To explore the physiological and biochemical response of Carya illinoinensis and Carya cathayensis seedlings to acid treatment, the annual seedlings of C.illinoinensis(pecan) and C.cathayensis(hickory) were cultured in Hogland's nutrient solution with pH 6.0(CK),pH 5.0(mild acid treatment),pH...

The short-rotation plantation cultivation model of Quercus acutissima leads to higher soil nutrients output, and fertilization is a key practice to improve soil fertility and stand productivity. Taking 3-year-old Q. acutissima germination plantation after the 4^th rotation as the research object, we ...

Pine resin is a widely used forestry by-product, and its yield can be determined using the resin flow rate (RFR). The application of phosphorus (P) fertiliser is prevalent in plantation forests; however, its effects on the RFR are currently unclear. Here, a P fertiliser addition experiment was...

Climate warming will cause more frequent drought events in arid regions with rain shortage, especially seasonal droughts, with strong impacts on tree transpiration. Tree transpiration responses to drought are further affected by competition among trees that can be quantified using Hegyi competition ...

Hemispherical photography is a relevant tool to estimate canopy attributes such as leaf area index (LAI). Advancements in digital photography and image processing tools have supported long-lasting use of digital hemispherical photography (DHP). While some open-source tools exists for DHP, very few...

Ensuring the perpetuity and improvement of REDD+ initiatives requires rigorous impact evaluation of their effectiveness in curbing deforestation. Today, a number of global and regional remote sensing (RS) products that detect changes in forest cover are publicly available. In this study, we assess...

European forests are facing multiple natural and anthropogenic pressures that are expected to become more severe in the next decades. Tree diversity is projected to decline in many areas across the continent. How this will affect the provision of forest services remains an open question, whose...

Deforestation for agriculture is a key threat to global carbon stocks, biodiversity, and indigenous ways of life. In the absence of strong territorial governance, zero-deforestation commitments (ZDCs), corporate policies to decouple food production from deforestation, remain a central tool to...

Community-based organizations (CBOs) and individuals primarily engaged in forest management dedicated to carbon credit run both at national and regional levels. After a span of time elapsed in the same, CBOs and individuals aspired to shift the carbon-dedicated forest either into log or timber...