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- Forest Ecology and Management Section
- Forest Ecophysiology and Biology Section
- Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science Section
- Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing Section
- Wood Science and Forest Products Section
- Genetics and Molecular Biology Section
- Forest Operations and Engineering Section
- Natural Hazards and Risk Management Section
- Forest Health Section
- Urban Forestry Section
- Forest Hydrology Section
- Forest Soil Section
- Forest Meteorology Section
Section Board for 'Wood Science and Forest Products' (46)
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Interests: wood characterisation; wood anatomy; wood modification; wood coating; mechanical testing; physical testing; wood properties; wood quality; tree growth; forest products; forest resource management; sustainability; wood in cultural heritage; wood in religious art
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Special Issue in Coatings: Surface and Interface Analysis of Cultural Heritage
Special Issue in Forests: Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Forests (IECF2020)
Special Issue in Forests: Selected Papers from the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Forests (IECF2022)

Interests: wood and wood based composites
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Interests: wood; wood composites; eco-friendly wood-based composites; lignocellulosic composites; wood technology; bio-based wood adhesives; advanced formaldehyde-based wood adhesives; formaldehyde emission; formaldehyde scavengers
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Topical Collection in Polymers: Wood Composites
Special Issue in Materials: Advanced Eco-friendly Wood-Based Composites
Special Issue in Polymers: Eco-Friendly Wood Composites: Design, Characterization and Applications
Special Issue in Sensors: Nondestructive Evaluation of Wood-Based Materials and Timber Structures
Special Issue in Polymers: Wood Waste-Based Composites
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Application of Wood Composites III
Special Issue in Forests: Advanced Eco-Friendly Wood-Based Composites II

Interests: sustainable biomaterials; green materials; nanomaterials/bionanomaterials (nanocellulose, nanolignin); nanotechnology applications for wood/wood-based composites/adhesives/bioadhesives; nanocomposites; biocomposites/hybrid composites; thermal analysis (DMTA, TMA, TGA, DSC); smart materials, renewable energy/biomass energy (wood/non-woody pellets, wood/non-woody briquettes); Industry 4.0 (smart manufacturing); R&D/Innovation; entrepreneurship

Interests: wood and biomass supply chain optimization; sensor technology; transport optimization; forest planning
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Interests: wood biology understood as the study of wood as a result of growth, the compartmentalization of it in cells and tissues and its variability; xylem anatomy; dendrochronology; carrying capacity of populations and communities of trees and of forest ecosystems; Central African rainforests and woodlands; tropical forests resilience; trait-based ecology; research relevant for development cooperation; epistemology of ecology
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Interests: forest pathology; tree diseases; forest microbes; microbial diversity; biological processing; forest health; wood microbiology; wood decomposition
Interests: timber construction; assembly; wood quality; mechanics of wood and wood composite

Interests: wood quality; wood technology; wood durability; wood protection; service life planning of timber structures
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Special Issue in Forests: Modeling the Performance of Wood and Wood Products
Special Issue in Materials: Bio-Based Materials from Wood and Non-wood Fibers: Development, Properties and Design

Interests: wood science; wood-based products; mechanical testing; physical testing; wood properties; wood quality; visual and machine timber grading; diagnosis of timber structures; model forest network
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Special Issue in Forests: Assessment of Climate Change Factors Affecting Wood Growth and Timber Quality
Interests: wood decay and durability; wood preservation; wood-water interactions; wood characterisation
Interests: wood and fibre nanostructure; modification and degradation

Interests: functional anatomical traits; plant hydraulics; quantitative wood anatomy; dendro-sciences; xylogenesis; intra-annual density fluctuations; plant morpho-functional adaptation in natural environments and in crop production; plant adaptation to extreme environments
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Topical Collection in Plants: Feature paper in Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change
Special Issue in Forests: Wood Anatomy and Evaluation of Wood Structures and Their Modifications
Special Issue in Plants: Effects of the Extraterrestrial Environment on Plants

Interests: forest management; landscape ecology; natural protected areas; planning and rural development; wood technology
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Special Issue in Forests: Wood and Flavor
Interests: wood physics; wood processing; chemical and bioprocess engineering
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Interests: wood structure; non-destructive testing; climate adaptation; forest products

Interests: silviculture; tree architecture; forest growth modeling; functional structural plant modeling; allometry; xylogenesis; urban forestry; wood quality modeling

Interests: non-wood forest products; barks and cork chemistry; GC-MS, HPLC-MS; polar and non-polar extractives analysis; suberin structural composition analysis; bioactive compounds
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Bio-Materials in a Bark Biorefinary Context
Interests: mechanical properties of wood and biomaterials; wood modification; elasticity; plasticity; bending; laser cutting; quality of the surface

Interests: wood; ontogeny; cell wall; anatomy; physical properties; mechanical properties; modified wood
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Interests: wood formation; environmental stress; phenology; hydraulic efficiency; compensatory mechanisms; tree growth
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Special Issue in Forests: Qualitative Features of Wood as a Determinant for Wood Quality and Economic Assessment
Special Issue in Forests: Relationships between Growth and Water Relations of Trees
Special Issue in Forests: Tree Genetics: Molecular and Functional Characterization of Genes
Special Issue in Plants: Tree Responses to Suboptimal Growth Conditions
Special Issue in Forests: Assessment of Climate Change Factors Affecting Wood Growth and Timber Quality

Interests: forest biodiversity; mycorrhizas; C and N cycling
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Special Issue in Forests: The Ecology of Fine Roots and Mycorrhizas in Forests
Special Issue in Forests: Fungal Dynamics and Diversity in Forests

Interests: bioeconomy; evaluating alternative materials; sustainable manufacturing pathways and bio-based products

Interests: tropical soil ecology; biology and biogeochemistry; disturbance effects; wood and litter decay; role of soil organisms in ecosystem processes and functions
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Special Issue in Forests: Forest Responses to Large-Scale Wind Disturbance

Interests: forest mechanizations; forest and rular roads and forest and rural area accessibility; production processing for forest biomass and forest wood biofuels
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Interests: wood anatomy; tree roots; dendrogeomorphology; micro sectioning; dendroecology
Interests: wood-water; non-destructive testing; forest products; terahertz; NMR

Interests: wood protection; wood modification; wood preservation; wood durability; wood degradation; service life
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Special Issue in Forests: Performance of Wood and Wood-Based Materials
Special Issue in Forests: Case Studies in Wood Technology
Special Issue in Journal of Fungi: Heavy Metals in Mushrooms
Special Issue in Materials: Bio-Based Materials from Wood and Non-wood Fibers: Development, Properties and Design

Interests: wood chemistry; wood modification; biomass analysis and technology; forests biofuels

Interests: woody plant ecophysiology; ecosystem ecology; climate change impacts; carbon sequestration; remote sensing; canopy architecture; fire ecology; water and carbon cycling; biological invasions; urban forestry
Interests: forest genomics; genetics and molecular biology; wood formation and genetics; insect resistance research; molecular markers; marker assisted selection
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Interests: forest operations; forest engineering; logging; harvesting; ergonomics; safety and health in forest operations; environmental impacts of forest operation; sustainability of forest operation; human factors; productivity; LCA
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Interests: wood properties; biocatalysis; wood grafting; enzymes; laccase; lignin
Interests: plantation wood processing and manufacturing; development and design of high quality timber products; durability of timber and timber products and utilisation of plantation timber resource
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Interests: wood; wood composites; lignocellulosic materials; chemical and thermal modification technologies; nanotechnology and nanomaterilas; adhesives
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Special Issue in Nanomaterials: Nanotechnology and Wood Science
Topical Collection in Applied Sciences: Advanced Technologies in Wood Science
Special Issue in Polymers: Advances in Wood Composites II
Special Issue in Materials: Sustainable Natural Materials for Engineering Application
Special Issue in Polymers: Advances in Wood Composites III
Special Issue in Polymers: Advances in Wood Composites IV
Topical Collection in Polymers: Wood Composites
Special Issue in Forests: Innovative Approaches for Wood Preservation
Special Issue in Polymers: Preparation and Application of Wood Composite
Interests: wood science

Interests: wood; heat treatement; torrefaction; pyrolysis; thermodegradation; wettability

Interests: nondestructive testing of wood; NIR spectroscopy; wood property responses to silvicultural treatments; wood Anatomy
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Interests: timber durability; biocides; timber design; wood modification; wooden products
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2. Australian Forest Operations Researcg Alliance, University of the Sunshine Coast (AFORA USC) Locked Bag 4, Maroochydore DC, Queensland 4558, Australia
Interests: forest operations; forest engineering; mechanization; logging; harvesting; system analysis; safety and health in forest operations; human factors studies; productivity; logging contractors; harvesting cost
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Interests: wood; lifecycle assessment; environmental impact; products; bio-based
Interests: wood science; durability; prevervation; protection; microbiology; insects; termites; active ingredients; boron compounds; quality management systems; metrology

Interests: wood characterization; extractives; natural resource management; wood modification
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Interests: role of forests and forest products on environment and economy; wood quality; biomass processing; bio-based composite materials development; mechanics of wood and wood composites; anisotropic elasticity; sustainable timber construction; outreach to forest products industry

Interests: fundamental research on wood–moisture relations; water vapor sorption, diffusion in wood; fire performance of wood products; fire and moisture performance of mass timber buildings
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Special Issue in Forests: Wood Modification: Physical Properties and Biological Efficacy

Interests: wood; ontogeny; cell wall; anatomy; physical properties; mechanical properties; modified wood
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