Eucalyptus plantations harbor great potential for supporting ecosystem services, but this prospect is weakened under long-term traditional silviculture regimes. To reform these traditional silviculture regimes, we carried out a long-term Eucalyptus eco-silviculture experiment. However, the derived...

Fertilization and weed control are regularly conducted as the main silvicultural prescriptions in the eucalyptus plantation forest. However, the interaction effects of both treatments on eucalyptus performance are still not deeply understood, even though these treatments require high investment....

Objective: This study aimed to explore the optimal forest management for combined carbon sequestration benefits and timber values and provide a theoretical basis for improving the comprehensive benefits of forests. Method: Based on the forest management cost data and harvest carbon model of Chinese ...

Technology is rapidly advancing and in forestry new innovations are increasingly being integrated into operations such as silviculture re-establishment (regeneration), harvesting and processing. The goal of this study was to identify eucalypt re-establishment technologies which will become...

In a climate change context, changing temperature and precipitation patterns are expected to have strong impacts on Brazilian eucalypt plantations. Implementing adaptive water-efficient management practices is thus becoming necessary to maintain high levels of productivity while preserving the...

Eucalypts are among the most widely cultivated forest trees in the world under a range of different climates for products that include pulp, paper fuel wood and solid wood products such as poles, furniture and construction timber. Large scale plantations have been raised in government owned and...

This paper describes the assessment of the SWAT hydrological model to reproduce continuous daily streamflow and simulate scenarios of forest management for a small catchment under tropical climate in Aracruz, Brazil. The main land use of the catchment consisted of eucalyptus cultivation. The SWAT...

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...

Tens of thousands of species are at risk of extinction globally. In many ecosystems, species declines are associated with deforestation. However, forest degradation also can profoundly affect biodiversity. I present a detailed case study of species declines associated with forest degradation in...

This special subject contains 7 articles discussing topics on the management of Eucalyptus and Pinus massoniana plantations, such as: non-volatile chemical components from Eucalyptus plants and their pharmacological activities; effects of mixing Eucalyptus and Castanopsis hystrix on soil hydrolytic ...