Forest Protection and Wildlife Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 318
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biodiversity; conservation biology; habitat management; arachnology; biological control; arthropods
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the main recent and future priorities in forest protection and wildlife management is the response of pathogens and pests to changed conditions of the environment in connection with expected global change and anthropogenic pressure, including issues related to forest dieback and biodiversity decline in forest ecosystems. Therefore, careful management methods for forest protection based on principles of the ecological restoration of ecosystems with minimum energy intervention are needed. The crucial problem in recent forests is the decline in biodiversity. This is mostly seen in arthropods, which are a fundamental component of forest ecosystems, and their biodiversity is most significant not only for ecosystem functioning but also for wood production. For these reasons, it is essential to gain sufficient knowledge about the changes in arthropod biodiversity driven by various pressures (e.g., anthropogenic disturbance, spreading of invasive species, and forest dieback) to promote reasonable forest management efforts.
This Special Issue of Sustainability is focused on forest protection and wildlife management in a modern anthropogenically influenced landscape. Research articles may focus on the occurrence and population dynamics of individual species or multitaxa studies in forests under the influence of various stressors, the impact of invasive species together with the spreading of pathogens and insect pests in forest ecosystems, and wildlife management and conservation in a modern landscape. Studies dealing with the effect of management aimed at promoting biodiversity in forests are also welcome.
Dr. Ondřej Košulič
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- forest protection
- forest ecology
- habitat management
- invasive species
- forest pest
