The major challenge of forest management globally is to manage forests in such a way that aspects of wood production and forest conservation are combined in order to have pro-ductive and stable forests that continuously ...

Climate change is leading to global shifts that can create a particular challenge for the stability and vitality of forest ecosystems. In the temperate forests of Central Europe, the natural forest vegetation is dominated ...

The timber quality of a single tree is considerably influenced by interactions with other individual trees. These competitive effects from neighbouring trees may be regulated through silvicultural treatments. Consequently, ...

The structure and structural complexity of forests influence many important characteristics of forest ecosystems, as well as their functions and services, such as ecosystem stability, maintenance of biodiversity and carbon ...

Climate change related rise in mean surface (air) temperature, altered intra-annual thermal and precipitation regimes as well as an expected increase of extreme weather events which are also prognosticated for large parts ...

Summary Wildlife-vehicle collisions cause human fatalities as well as economic and ecological losses on roads worldwide. Multiple mitigation measures have been developed over the past decades, while wildlife warning ...

The northern Mongolian mountain forest steppe, the transition zone between taiga and open steppe, is rich in plant and animal life. It is the most productive region in the country in terms of agriculture and, as a result, ...

Disturbances are an integral part of forest ecosystems. Integrating single-tree dynamics to large-scale disturbances as windthrows, fire or insect calamities, disturbances influence natural species composition and regeneration ...

The amount of exotic plant species introduced to new regions by humans has considerably increased in the last two centuries. Worldwide, the invasion of exotic species represents an important threat to native biodiversity ...