Dear colleagues,
The open access journal /Forests (IF 1.449)/ (ISSN 1999-4907) is
currently running a special issue entitled “*Forest Growth Response to
Environmental Stress*”. As we are acting as guest editors for this
issue, we would like to welcome contributions from various disciplines.
We kindly invite you to consider submitting your full paper to this
special issue.
Special Issue Website:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/growth_stress
Submission Deadline: *31 August 2016*
Authors are invited to submit papers related to the following topics:
There exists a great concern on the effects of *environmental stressors*
on 21st-century forests. Drought, heat, and cold spells, climate
warming, land-use changes, wildfires, pollution and other local
stressors negatively affect forest growth and vitality. These threats
could reduce the multiple ecosystem services forests provide to humans.
Such negative effects on forests may be direct or indirect through the
predisposition to forest pests and pathogens. Researchers must be able
to quantify forest growth responses to environmental stressors in the
long-term, using for instance tree-ring data, so as to provide
assessments of forest resilience to environmental stress.
/In this Special Issue of Forests, we aim to fill this gap by asking for
manuscripts which constitute original contributions on studies
evaluating the impact of environmental stress on forest growth,
emphasizing quantitative on the responses of forest growth and vigor to
persistent or acute stressors*.* This Special Issue proposes
multidisciplinary contributions using varied disciplines such as
dendroecology, ecophysiology, functional ecology, forest pathology,
remote sensing and models. Authors should address ecological and
management aspects, including mitigation and adaptation, of
environmental risks globally faced by forests./
*Keywords:*/Environmental Stress, Forest Growth, Tree physiology,
Climate Warming, Dendroecology, Forest Vulnerability, Forest Vitality,
Forest Management, Climatic Risks, Drought, Cold Temperature, Hurricane,
Cyclones; Strong wind, Land-Use Change, Wildfire, Pollution, Floods./
At the moment, about 4-5 papers have already signed up for this special
issue, and several other authors have expressed their interest. If you
are interested in our special issue, please feel free to contact us, or
submit your manuscripts at http://susy.mdpi.com/user/register
Also, authors are encouraged to send a short abstract or tentative title
to the Editorial Office in advance ([email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>) and please keep us posted.
/Forests/is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by
readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as
indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors
and their institutes.
Feel free to contact us if you would have any questions.
Best wishes,
Jesus Julio Camarero
Raúl Sánchez-Salguero
Juan Carlos Linares
/Guest Editors/
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Dr. Raúl Sánchez-Salguero
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dpto. Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Ctra.Utrera Km 1, 41013
SEVILLA, SPAIN
Phone: +34 661075574
Fax: +34 954 977305
