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Forestry: a peer-reviewed journal on sustainable management of forests and trees owned by @theicf.bsky.social‬ Editor-in-Chief: @ffassnacht.bsky.social‬ Posts by: @saralilplants.bsky.social https://academic.oup.com/forestry

A figure showing a map of the native and introduced occurrence of east asian bark beetle (top) and bottom three photos show the host plant white mulberry, adult female east asian bark beetle and gallery pattern on an infected host plant.
Diameter distribution of trees per hectare (2-cm classes and aggregated diameter at breast height classes) across all sample plots. Horizontal lines indicate the mean stem density (trees ha−1) for each aggregated DBH class.
Two maps showing potential suitability for pine mistletoe (Viscum album subsp. austriacum) according to the MaxEnt model. (A, top map) Detailed model for the forests; (B, bottom map) model extrapolated to the whole area of Poland. Main rivers are shown.
Overview of the multi-trait and multi-scale study on thinning in pines. The schematic shows the combined measurements from xylem water storage (dendrometry) to canopy biophysics (remote sensing) and ecosystem fluxes (eddy covariance).
Workflow for generating synthetic RGB and binary image pairs for fine woody debris segmentation.
July issue of Forestry announcement showing a selection of the topics covered in the issue. Text reads: Predicting forest age using airborne laser scanning and Sentinel-2 data. Reducing overharvest risk in the Brazilian Amazon. Adaptive water use strategies of Mongolian pine plantations. Trait-environment interactions in subtropical seasonal tree communities. And more! There is a weblink to the journal issue.
Three plots showing the positive relationship between biomass loss and leaf litter concentrations of total non-structural carbohydrates, soluble non-structural carbohydrates, and starch. Both total and soluble non-structural carbohydrates showed significant postive correlation with biomass loss, where as starch showed weak association with biomass loss.
A visual abstract for the study on crown dieback and dead trees detection from digital aerial images. The key details about the input data, methods and results found are shown as diagrams and bullet points.
Two-parameter log-logistic model-predicted probability of mortality under 12 levels of warming for balsam fir (BF), black spruce (BS), eastern hemlock (EH), red spruce (RS), and white spruce (WS) seedlings over one growing season. Red dashed line represents the projected temperature for the end of the century under Shared Socio-economic Pathways 5–8.5 (5.7°C above baseline temperature; IPCC 2023)
Four plots showing the annual probability of bark beetle disturbance (%) divided by model based on (a, top left) western subset 2022, (b, top right) eastern subset 2022, (c, bottom left) western subset 2023, and (d, bottom right) eastern subset 2023 on spruce cover at the regional scale.
A drawing showing how the defence of common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) against ash dieback caused by Hymenoscyphus fraxineus can conceptually act at different levels: leaves and woody stem tissues. Drawing by V. Dubach, Swiss Forest Protection, WSL, Switzerland.
A figure showing the location of the study area (c) in Guilin (b), China (a), and photographs of the sampling sites in the bamboo forest (d), fir forest (e), and mixed forest (f).
NetDraw images over the four stages (creation, growth, expansion and stable) in each policy keyword (afforestation, urban forest, forest culture and inter-Korean forest cooperation). Different colors refer to the different sectors, and different shapes refer to different roles of key actors in the network. The size of the node refers to the frequency of the organization mentioned in news articles.
A figure showing a subset of unlabelled sample plots in the Romeo-Malette Forest used for self-supervised learning pretraining. Unlabelled plots are sampled along a grid with a distance of 110 m between plots. Two unlabelled point clouds (a & b) are shown with their associated plot locations.
Overview of the study area in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany and the three areas of interest.
A figure with three panels showing the study area: (a, top image) location of the Tapajós National Forest, municipality of Belterra, state of Pará, Brazil. (b, middle image) Location of the three evaluated annual timber production units, managed 2, 6, and 10 years after logging, including inventory plots. (c, bottom set of images) Landscape images of the three annual timber production units at different regeneration stages under both treatments.
Maps showing the study area, that comprises most of the southern region of the Northwest Territories Taiga Plains ecozone in Canada. Peach-coloured blobs show forest inventory plots.
Two figures showing the carbon uptake in the land use, land use change and forestry sector in Sweden (top) and Finland (bottom) between 1990–2024. Both countries show a decrease in net carbon sink in the early 2010's.
Forestry April issue announcement. The text in bullet points reads: Mechanisms of resistance and tolerance to ash dieback. Soil fungus diversity in a maritime pine afforestation site. Assessing crown health in sugar maples using intra-canopy photogrammetry. Drought effects on biogeochemical nutrient cycling in mature beech forest. And more! There is a link to the webpage to access the April journal issue.
A figure showing the location of the study area in Białowieża Forest, Poland and study sites.
A photo of the underside of tree crown taken from the ground. The sun is shining giving a dappled look to the overlapping leaves.
Table showing the nine experimental treatments with percentage reduction in live bracken cover relative to the untreated control, and indicative susceptibility, 11 months after spraying.
A figure with four panels showing the location of study area in Northwest China (top left), sampling sites of sandy soil and loess (top right), and on site pictures of subsidence plot with sandy soil (bottom left) and loess soil (bottom right).
A map showing the location of the 24 study sites in southern Belgium. In grey the Walloon region and in hatched lines the Belgian Ardennes.
A flow diagram showing an overview of the systematic approach applied for including articles to the review. Three databases are used (Google Scholar, Web of Sciences: Core Collection and Scopus. 4258 studies identified with a final collection of 80 articles meeting 5 inclusion criteria.
Four maps of Bavaria showing canopy cover loss. The maps show comparison of absolute (A and B) and relative (C and D) canopy cover loss between administrative districts (Landkreise) (A and C) and a regular hexagonal grid (B and D) and from August 2017 to 2024.
The 2025 announcement for the Silvicultural Prize with the Institute of Charted Foresters and the journal Forestry. The text reads: Silvicultural Prize 2025, Gardenia Gonçalves de Oliveira, Doctoral Candidate UNESP – São Paulo State University. There is a screenshot of the article with the title: Optimizing forest residue management after harvesting: nutrient export scenarios in Eucalyptus plantations across high forest and coppice systems.
The 2025 announcement for the Silvicultural Prize with the Institute of Charted Foresters and the journal Forestry. The text reads: Silvicultural Prize 2025, Gardenia Gonçalves de Oliveira, Doctoral Candidate UNESP – São Paulo State University. Gardenia is quoted: "We are honoured to receive the 2025 Silvicultural Prize for our paper and sincerely thank the reviewers for their constructive feedback.... We are thrilled that this partnership between researchers and industry is delivering real, actionable results for sustainable forest management."
Average light availability for herbicide vs no herbicide treatment for different harvest time intervals (2014-2023). Light availability increased from 21% to 68% following 2014 harvest.
A panel with 6 photographs showing a selection of key symptoms observed during health assessments. Symptoms include needle discolouration, loss and browning.
Illustration of a forest harvest site with data transfer and logs prepared for transport to a processing facility within the forest products supply chain.
New Forestry issue announcement. Text reads: Editor's Choice: Alternative approaches to forest sector carbon accounting and assessment: a literature review and synthesis by Bowen Wang, Ying Lin, Ping Liu and Runsheng Yin. Plus articles on: Trade-off analysis for multi-objective boreal forest thinning. Pathogen impacts and implications for species diversification. Fire spread prediction models for surface fuels in subtropical forests.
A panel with three figures showing: (A) Orthophoto showing the approximate boundaries of an experimental plot. (B) Segmented point clouds of experimental plot, generated using RainCloudTools. (C) Panoramic 360-degree image from a scan position within experimental plot.
A panel of photos showcasing examples of traces of activity associated with survival or bushcraft including: scorched litter, hut construction, various levels of bark harvesting from dead and living trees.
Maps showing Canada’s forested ecosystems over time with historic disturbances (1917 to 2021, top map) and 2022 land cover map (bottom map). Figure from Hermosilla et al. 2022.
A diagram showing the four cutting attachments assessed in the study: (a) wire head, (b) 2-tooth blade, (c) 3-tooth blade, (d) 24-tooth blade. Photo credit Naskrent et al. 2020.
The four main steps involved in the convolutional neural network (CNN) structure for the training of the whorl and sawlog detectors. Steps: backbone, neck, head and detection.
Two figures showing the mean values for fine root biomass (FRB) for P. sylvestris (figure a, left hand side) and F. sylvatica (figure b, right handside). Standard errors are shown. Results correspond to the samples collected beside a pine in a pine area (PP), a pine in a mixed area (PM), and a beech in a mixed area (BM).
Announcement of the December issue of Forestry. Text reads: Editor's Choice: What makes a forest growth model climate-sensitive? An examination of statistical and silvicultural model needs under climate change. By Liam Gilson, Bianca Eskelson and Derek Sattler. Plus articles on: Fine root dynamics of Scots pine and European beech. Assessing current and future wood availability in Belgium. Comparison of local vs pantropical allometric models in biomass estimates.
A schematic overview of the carbon stocks study showing data sources, workflow, and how parameters (red text) were derived and utilized in subsequent models and simulations. Climate data included temperature (temp.), precipitation (precip.), and climatological water deficit (CWD).
Figure showing stand-level net growth and stand-level growing space efficiency (sum of stem volume increments for all trees in the stand divided by sum of total crown projection areas) in relation to residual standing volume after harvest for the higher productivity site. Solid symbols represent net growth and hollow symbols represent TCA efficiency. STS, single-tree selection; STS + GS, single-tree selection with group openings included.
Announcement for the call for papers for a new special issue with SilviLaser 2025 with extended deadline of 15 January 2026. In the top right there is the Forestry and Silvilaser2025 logos. There are several green and grey boxes with text. Text reads: Call for papers! SilviLaser 2025: Laser scanning applications in forest management. Open for submissions from SilviLaser 2025 conference participants, as well as non-participants. Guest editors: Dr. Alexis Achim, Université Laval, Canada; Dr. Nicholas Coops, University of British Columbia, Canada; Dr. Amy Wotherspoon, University of British Columbia, Canada. Deadline extended: 15 January 2026. More information here: https://academic.oup.com/forestry/pages/call-for-papers. There is also a QR code that takes you to Forestry special issue webpage.
A map showing location of the lower coastal plain physiographic region (in green) in the Southeastern US as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency level III ecoregions of North America.
A two-part schematic showing an overview of open canopy pine (Pinus species), OCP conditions within a private, working forest landscape. The top section provides an overview of how OCP conditions are generally defined and maintained in a managed pine system, along with examples of wildlife taxa that respond positively to these conditions. The lower section offers a conceptual view of an example landscape, highlighting areas with OCP conditions and indicating, as examples, typical wildlife taxa found there. Created in https://BioRender.com.
Photographs of exemplary plots representing three types of ivy (Hedera helix L.) density on tree phorophytes (low—A, top photo, moderate—B, middle photo, and high—C, bottom photo).
A map showing the five study locations on forestry farms located in Heilongjiang Province, China. The two photos on the right show how Korean pine is one of the main commercially used coniferous species in the area.
Figure showing how separated the wild pear and cultivated pear are arranged by qc in ascending order. Increasing affinity to cultivation is shown from left to right. The ranking also shows on an individual level how close the two major gene pools were
Announcement for the call for papers for a new special issue with SilviLaser 2025. In the top right there is the Forestry and Silvilaser2025 logos. There are several green and grey boxes with text. Text reads: Call for papers! SilviLaser 2025: Laser scanning applications in forest management. Open for submissions from SilviLaser 2025 conference participants, as well as non-participants. Guest editors: Dr. Alexis Achim, Université Laval, Canada; Dr. Nicholas Coops, University of British Columbia, Canada; Dr. Amy Wotherspoon, University of British Columbia, Canada. Submission deadline 30th November 2025. More information here: https://academic.oup.com/forestry/pages/call-for-papers. There is also a QR code that takes you to Forestry special issue webpage.
Three photos showing examples of snow disturbance in boreal, coniferous forests: A, left image) top breakages in a spruce forest, B, middle image) stem breakages in a pine-dominated forest, and C, right image) stem breakage in a spruce-dominated forest.
A summary infographic comparing the effects of wildfire and forest harvesting on woodland caribou habitat selection and distribution, demographics, movement, and forage availability.
A three-part panel plot showing the experimental setup and methodology for investigating tree architectural uniqueness. Bitemporal terrestrial laser scanning was used to obtain point cloud reconstructions of a tree population (top two figures, A and B). The bottom figure (C) shows the stem profile and branching arrangement based on the point cloud data.
Distribution of native forest tree species Cybistax antisyphilitica (panel a) and Platycyamus regnellii (panel b) in Brazil, with the respective proportion of total occurrence records for each species in each Brazilian region, location of the study area and individual occurrence records of both species in Minas Gerais state (panel c)
New issue announcement for the October issue of Forestry. Text reads: Editor's Choice: Quantifying architectural uniqueness of Scots pine trees using terrestrial laser scanning: toward individual tree fingerprinting by Tuomas Yrttimaa, Samuli Junttila, Juha Hyyppä, Markus Holopainen, Michael A Wulder and Mikko Vastaranta. Plus articles on: Development of ivy vines in central European forests. Detecting snow disturbances in boreal forests with lidar data and aerial images. Genetics, conservation and silviculture of the wild pear (Pyrus pyraster).
Three maps showing the six woodland planting scenarios for the three catchments: Lowther (a), Colne (b), and Ennerdale (c).
Location of study area in south-eastern Norway (left panel) and the systematic distribution of sample and validation plots (right panel).
Flowchart of the Real Twig processing steps and an illustration of a Quantitative Structural Model (QSM) for a European ash tree with a single “path” highlighted in black (middle illustration). A path starts at the basal cylinder in the QSM and proceeds to a terminal twig; the number of paths in the tree is equal to the number of twigs. The bottom shows six illustrations of various QSM cylinders.
A map showing location of sampling sites in subalpine fir (A. lasiocarpa) forests along north-facing slopes of the Rocky Mountains in northern British Columbia. Red circles indicate the five site locations. From the top (highest latitude) to the bottom (lowest latitude), subalpine fir was sampled at Pine Le Moray Provincial Park, Mount Chingee, Mount Averil, Grizzly Den, and McBride Peak sites.
Announcement for the call for papers for a new special issue with SilviLaser 2025. In the top right there is the Forestry and Silvilaser2025 logos. There are several green and grey boxes with text. Text reads: Call for papers! SilviLaser 2025: Laser scanning applications in forest management. Open for submissions from SilviLaser 2025 conference participants, as well as non-participants. Guest editors: Dr. Alexis Achim, Université Laval, Canada; Dr. Nicholas Coops, University of British Columbia, Canada; Dr. Amy Wotherspoon, University of British Columbia, Canada. Submission deadline: 30th November 2025. More information here: https://academic.oup.com/forestry/pages/call-for-papers. There is also a QR code that takes you to Forestry special issue webpage.
Diagram showing the study workflow: the left side displays the GAM formation for comparing potential decline drivers at individual tree and tree group levels. The right side demonstrates the remote sensing analysis on the bare soils of two declining and non-declining tree groups.
Framework of the treecbh R package: tree isolation (a), vertical cross-sectional K-means clustering (b), and the 2D kernel method (c). The detected crown base height is illustrated in the graph at the bottom right.