Journal of Forestry Research
banner
forestryjfr.bsky.social
Journal of Forestry Research
@forestryjfr.bsky.social
JFR ( ISSN 1007 -662X , IF 4.6 Q1 ) Journal of Forestry Research | Ranked 6/92

🌳 Follow for studies on forest sustainability, ecology, & conservation! 🌳
🔗 https://link.springer.com/journal/11676
Pinned
📢 Call for Papers: Forest Therapy Special Issue!
Following ICFT 2025's success with 300+ global participants, we invite submissions on health outcomes, therapy practices & innovation in nature-based interventions.
Deadline December 2025 🌲🧠 link.springer.com/journal/1167...
🌲🎆 Happy New Year 2026! As we step into the year ahead, the JFR community remains committed to advancing forestry science for a greener, more resilient future.🌍
link.springer.com/journal/11676
#HappyNewYear #NewYear2026 #ForestryResearch #JFR #ForestsMatter #ClimateAction🍁🌺🌱🌿
December 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🌳 How green spaces restore your mind!
A JFR study finds coniferous, layered plant communities provide strong restorative benefits shaped by crown, trunk, color, and distance.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#JFR #ForestryResearch #UrbanGreenSpaces #MentalWellbeing #PlantCommunities 🍁🌺🌱🌿🦤
December 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Impressive ecological work from @respublications.bsky.social 🌿
Understanding Heliconia-dipteran interactions across forest types helps us appreciate forest complexity.
Learn more in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676

#ForestResearch #ForestEcosystems #JFR 🍁🌺🌱🌿
December 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🎄This #Christmas, the #JFR family wishes you joy, warmth, and time with loved ones. As we celebrate under the shade of evergreen trees, let's remember forests give us more than beauty, they give us life.
Explore cutting-edge forestry research:
link.springer.com/journal/11676
#forestryresearch 🍁🌺🌱🌿🦤
December 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🌱 Who prefers ammonium or nitrate?
A JFR study shows woody & herbaceous plants differ in nitrogen uptake, influenced by temperature, precipitation, and soil nitrogen across China.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#JFR #ForestryResearch #NitrogenUptake #PlantEcology #ClimateAdaptation 🍁🌺🌱🌿🦤
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
What do you think matters most when monitoring forest health? 🌍
We have countless metrics, canopy cover, soil health, biodiversity, climate stress markers, but which one is truly critical?
Cast your vote and let us know why! 👇
#JFR

1.🌲Tree Vigor
2.🌱Soil Health
3.🦠Pathogen Presence
4.🌞Canopy Density
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Appreciating a important contribution by @anabenlop.bsky.social🌳
Linking hunting pressure to sapling recruitment adds vital context to tropical forest conservation.
Explore related studies in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676
#ForestResearch #TropicalForests #JFR 🍁🌺🌱🌿
December 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🌲 Boost productivity, keep diversity!
A JFR study on Platycladus orientalis seed orchards identifies elite families and strategies to increase genetic gain while preserving diversity.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#JFR #ForestryResearch #GeneticDiversity #TreeImprovement 🍁🌺🌱🌿
December 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🌲 Tree growth is getting more unpredictable
A JFR study shows Picea purpurea radial growth
variability increased from 1960–2020, driven mainly by July moisture and rising
vapor pressure deficit.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s116...
#JFR #ForestryResearch #TreeGrowth #ClimateChange🍁🌺🌱🌿
December 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Important field study by @journalofecology.bsky.social🌳
Small-scale nutrient dynamics shape root traits and ecosystem processes in forest understory plants.
Explore more such research on forest ecology in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676
#ForestEcology #Research 🌺🌱🌿
Published!📖

In a forest field experiment, we show that, at small-scale, increased nutrient availability consistently alters root traits of Vaccinium myrtillus while nutrient heterogeneity only increased trait variation in phosphatase activity🌳 🏔️ 🌲

Read here:https://buff.ly/sy2DkDe
December 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🌲⚡ This #NationalEnergyConservationDay, New research shows selective thinning boosts carbon storage while improving tree stability. 🌳 Forest management is climate action: doi.org/10.1007/s116...

#JFR #ForestryResearch #CarbonSequestration #ClimateAction
🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
⛰️This #InternationalMountainDay, remember: 41% of mountain areas are forested and supply 60–80% of global freshwater. But restoring them is complex. New research from Hong Kong finds elevation is the top driver of seedling success: doi.org/10.1007/s116...
#JFR #ForestryResearch 🍁🌺🌱🌿🦤
December 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
🌿Populus pruinosa dieback along the Zarafshon River was triggered by drought interacting with poor soil, high subsoil clay, salinity, low field capacity, despite stable groundwater.
Study by Akbar Akhmedov et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s116...
#JFR #ForestryResearch #RiparianForests 🍁🌺🌱🌿
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reposted by Journal of Forestry Research
🌱Vietnam’s clonal trials: 42 Acacia hybrid clones across 3 ecological regions over 5 years show strong genetic control, clear genotype–environment interactions, and top performers for growth and stem quality.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#JFR #ForestryResearch #Acacia #ForestGenetics 🍁🌺🌱🌿
December 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Insightful study by @dominic-martin.bsky.social 🌿
Amphibian diversity thrives where native trees and leaf litter persist in Malagasy agroforest.
Explore related research on forest ecosystems and species interactions in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676
#Forest #JFR🍁🌺🌱
How do large native trees and leaf litter promote amphibian diversity in Malagasy agroforests?

🌳🌳🌳 ↗️ 🐸 🐸🐸
🍂🍂🍂 ↗️ 🐸🐸🐸

The first PhD chapter of Lovasoa Rakotozafy is now published in an Issue of @jappliedecology.bsky.social!

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🌳 🌳 🌳 🐸 🐸 🐸 🌳 🌳 🌳
Lurking in the leaves: How large native trees and leaf litter promote amphibian diversity in Malagasy agroforests
While old-growth forests are irreplaceable for conserving Madagascar's endemic amphibian diversity, agroforests can also support amphibian populations, especially if management enhances habitat compl...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🌱🌳 This #WorldSoilDay, let's dig deeper. Explore the study and see why soil health is the backbone of resilient forests.
doi.org/10.1007/s116...

#JFR #Forestryresearch #Envitonemnt 🍁🌺🌱🌿
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Important reminder from @nature.org 🌎
Not all restoration cools the Earth equally , albedo effects can shape climate outcomes.
Stay updated with the latest peer-reviewed forestry research in JFR : link.springer.com/journal/11676

#SustainableForestry #JFR #ForestClimate #Forestryresearch🍁🌺🌱🌿
A moment for reflection... literally.

New research shows how the albedo effect (Earth’s reflectivity) influences how well forest restoration projects can help cool the Earth.
Maximizing Climate Returns: Albedo Accounting for Smarter Carbon Investments
New research shows how the albedo effect influences how well forest restoration projects can help cool the Earth.
blog.nature.org
December 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🌧️ Mixed forests keep soil life thriving, even when rainfall shifts!
A JFR study shows that plant species mixtures boost springtail abundance and diversity, especially in drier conditions.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#JFR #ForestryResearch #SoilEcology #Biodiversity 🍁🌺🌱🌿
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🐆 This #WorldJaguarDay, we celebrate one of nature's most iconic predators!
Jaguars need connected forests to survive, but habitat fragmentation is isolating populations across their range.🌳
#Forestryresearch is key to protecting forest ecosystems:
link.springer.com/journal/11676
#JFR 🍁🌺🌱🌿
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
🌱 Rethinking plantation density for soil carbon gains!
A JFR study shows how stand-density regulation in Larix principis-rupprechtii plantations affects soil carbon pools and enhances soil respiration modeling.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#JFR #ForestryResearch #SoilCarbon #ForestEcology
Effects of stand density regulation on soil carbon pools in different-aged Larix principis-rupprechtii plantations and soil respiration model enhancement - Journal of Forestry Research
Soil respiration is the key process driving CO2 exchange between forest soils and the atmosphere and regulated by soil organic carbon (SOC) characteristics and extracellular enzyme activities. However...
link.springer.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Great contribution by @dudney-joan.bsky.social on how disturbances interact and reshape our forests. Clear, timely, and vital under changing climates.
For more forest science, browse the Journal of Forestry Research: t.co/wn7t5DsFG9
🍁🌺🌱🌿

#JFR #Forestryresearch #Research #Sustainability
Disturbance interactions have profound consequences for forest health, yet remain poorly understood.

Here we use DAGs to differentiate #Synergisms, #CompoundDisturbances & #NetworkEffects and review the impacts of climate change.

Final version out now! 🧪🌐🍁🌱
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
🌍 In your opinion, what aspect of forest hydrology must be prioritized for climate adaptation?
Comment your answers below !
#ForestHydrology #ClimateAdaptation #Forestry #JFR #Forestryresearch 🍁🌺🌱🌿

1. 🌧️Water Cycle Studies
2.💧Soil Moisture Monitoring
3.🌡️Evaporation Control
4.🏞️Watershed Management
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🌲This #WorldEvolutionDay Let’s remember how #evolution shaped the world’s forests over millions of years, yet plastic pollution is unravelling them in decades. Species cannot evolve fast enough to cope with synthetic pollutants now infiltrating #forest ecosystems across planet. 🍁🌺🌱🌿

#JFR #Forestry
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Great share from @esajournals , managing forest nutrition may be the next frontier in conservation. Grateful for such timely, impactful ecology research! 🌿
#ForestEcology #WildlifeConservation #EcosystemScience #JFR #Forestryresearch 🍁🌺🌱
🆕 in "Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment": Forest recovery isn't just about tree cover—nutrition matters! How managing chemical landscapes could boost wildlife conservation

📄Managing nutritional landscapes as the next frontier in forest ecology and conservation
doi.org/10.1002/fee....
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM