Climate-Driven Drought Resilience of Forest
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 573
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drought sensitivity; carbon and water balance; cavitation in plants
Interests: plant stress physiology; climate change; crop physiology; plant hydraulics; regional hydrology; drought; sustainability science; ecophysiology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: hydrological and carbon cycling in forest ecosystems; ecophysiological responses of trees and forests to environmental changes; sap flow measurement; canopy photosynthesis and ecosystem modelling; impacts of climate change and climate variability on hydrological and carbon cycles in forest ecosystems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change, which poses a serious risk to forests across biomes, has induced significant changes in forest compositions and functions. Increased drought stress associated with increasing temperatures, in particular, is likely to be a key element driving climate effects on forest ecosystems. Climate change triggers cross-scale (from organ to ecosystems) responses in forest ecosystems, from the physiological and phenological to structural and productivity adjustments. Within such an increasingly challenging environment, we need to understand the integrated response of plants to climate change (e.g., drought), whether being from a classical physiological point of view or from new multi-disciplinary approaches. For this Special Issue of Forests, we invite papers addressing the fundamental understanding of forests and/or applications for improving their resilience. We welcome studies from all fields of research, e.g., plant ecophysiology, global change biology, remote sensing, ecosystem ecology, forest management, and relevant disciplines. Submitted works can include, but are not limited to, studies investigating the impacts of climate variability and change on tree physiology, forest growth and productivity, plant survival, forest water and carbon cycles, forest composition, and forest dynamics.
Dr. Yajun Chen
Prof. Dr. YongJiang Zhang
Dr. Pantana Tor-ngern
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- drought stress
- resilience of forests
- plant ecophysiology
- global change biology
- remote sensing
- ecosystem ecology
- forest management
