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Forestry: a peer-reviewed journal on sustainable management of forests and trees owned by @theicf.bsky.social‬

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Crown radius models have improved predictive capacity when environmental factors are included. 🌲📐

Yan and colleagues use Korean pine plantations in Northeast China as a case study to explore climate and soil variables on crown radius model performance.

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A map showing the five study locations on forestry farms located in Heilongjiang Province, China. The two photos on the right show how Korean pine is one of the main commercially used coniferous species in the area.
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Genetics of the rare wild pear (Pyrus pyraster) 🍐

Wagner and Wagner examine the genetic and morphological trait diversity of wild pears in central Europe.

The consequences for conservation and silviculture of the species are also discussed.

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Figure showing how separated the wild pear and cultivated pear are arranged by qc in ascending order. Increasing affinity to cultivation is shown from left to right. The ranking also shows on an individual level how close the two major gene pools were
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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🚨 Deadline approaching to submit to our special issue with @silvilaser2025.bsky.social on

“Laser scanning applications in forest management”

⏰ Submissions are due 30th November 2025

More information here:
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Announcement for the call for papers for a new special issue with SilviLaser 2025. In the top right there is the Forestry and Silvilaser2025 logos. There are several green and grey boxes with text. Text reads: Call for papers! SilviLaser 2025: Laser scanning applications in forest management. Open for submissions from SilviLaser 2025 conference participants, as well as non-participants. Guest editors: Dr. Alexis Achim, Université Laval, Canada; Dr. Nicholas Coops, University of British Columbia, Canada; Dr. Amy Wotherspoon, University of British Columbia, Canada. Submission deadline 30th November 2025. More information here: https://academic.oup.com/forestry/pages/call-for-papers. There is also a QR code that takes you to Forestry special issue webpage.
November 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Detecting snow disturbances in boreal forests 🔎 ❄️ 🌲

@jjraty.bsky.social et al. use airborne lidar data and aerial images to examine snow disturbance at the individual tree level in Finnish boreal forests.

Read more how this detection system could aid forestry management 👇
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Three photos showing examples of snow disturbance in boreal, coniferous forests: A, left image) top breakages in a spruce forest, B, middle image) stem breakages in a pine-dominated forest, and C, right image) stem breakage in a spruce-dominated forest.
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Ecosystem-based management and caribou in Canada 🦌

Stevenson et al. review a range of responses from habitat selection to population dynamics of woodland caribou to forestry and wildfire practices.

Read more about their findings here 👇
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A summary infographic comparing the effects of wildfire and forest harvesting on woodland caribou habitat selection and distribution, demographics, movement, and forage availability.
October 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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⭐ Editor’s choice article ⭐

In search of “tree fingerprints”:

Yrttimaa and colleagues use terrestrial laser scanning to quantify architectural uniqueness in Scots pine trees.

Read more about their approaches and possible applications 👇
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A three-part panel plot showing the experimental setup and methodology for investigating tree architectural uniqueness. Bitemporal terrestrial laser scanning was used to obtain point cloud reconstructions of a tree population (top two figures, A and B). The bottom figure (C) shows the stem profile and branching arrangement based on the point cloud data.
October 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Out now by Fagundes et al. 🌱

An assessment on the ecological adaptation and financial feasibility of forest seedling development under global warming for two key tree species in Brazil.

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Distribution of native forest tree species Cybistax antisyphilitica (panel a) and Platycyamus regnellii (panel b) in Brazil, with the respective proportion of total occurrence records for each species in each Brazilian region, location of the study area and individual occurrence records of both species in Minas Gerais state (panel c)
October 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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October issue is now out! 🧪

Articles include:

🌲 Quantifying architectural uniqueness in Scots pine trees
📈 Development of ivy vines
❄️ Detecting snow disturbances in boreal forests
🍐 Genetics and conservation of the wild pear

Read more here: academic.oup.com/forestry/iss...
New issue announcement for the October issue of Forestry. Text reads: Editor's Choice: Quantifying architectural uniqueness of Scots pine trees using terrestrial laser scanning: toward individual tree fingerprinting by Tuomas Yrttimaa, Samuli Junttila, Juha Hyyppä, Markus Holopainen, Michael A Wulder and Mikko Vastaranta. Plus articles on: Development of ivy vines in central European forests. Detecting snow disturbances in boreal forests with lidar data and aerial images. Genetics, conservation and silviculture of the wild pear (Pyrus pyraster).
October 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Out now:

Woodland planting and flood management 🤝

Willis and colleagues use hydrological modelling to evaluate a range of woodland planting scenarios for flood risk management in the north of England.

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Three maps showing the six woodland planting scenarios for the three catchments: Lowther (a), Colne (b), and Ennerdale (c).
September 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Out now:

A study by Candelas Bielza et al. on the uncertainty in remote sensing-based predictions of species composition and site index. 🌲🛰️

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Location of study area in south-eastern Norway (left panel) and the systematic distribution of sample and validation plots (right panel).
September 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Improving tree volume and biomass estimates 🌳 📐

Morales and MacFarlane develop Real Twig, a method for correcting branch and twig overestimation biases in quantitative structure models.

Read more about the Real Twig validation process for a range of tree species.👇

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Flowchart of the Real Twig processing steps and an illustration of a Quantitative Structural Model (QSM) for a European ash tree with a single “path” highlighted in black (middle illustration). A path starts at the basal cylinder in the QSM and proceeds to a terminal twig; the number of paths in the tree is equal to the number of twigs. The bottom shows six illustrations of various QSM cylinders.
September 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Drought responses across time and space 🪵📉

Using dendrochronological analyses, Haghshenas and Wood studied changes in wood density of subalpine fir trees to historical drought over a 500 km latitudinal gradient in northern British Columbia, Canada.

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A map showing location of sampling sites in subalpine fir (A. lasiocarpa) forests along north-facing slopes of the Rocky Mountains in northern British Columbia. Red circles indicate the five site locations. From the top (highest latitude) to the bottom (lowest latitude), subalpine fir was sampled at Pine Le Moray Provincial Park, Mount Chingee, Mount Averil, Grizzly Den, and McBride Peak sites.
September 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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We have a call for papers for a new Special Issue with
@silvilaser2025.bsky.social

SilviLaser 2025: Laser scanning applications in forest management

⏰ Submission deadline: 30th November 2025

More information here👇
academic.oup.com/forestry/pag...
Announcement for the call for papers for a new special issue with SilviLaser 2025. In the top right there is the Forestry and Silvilaser2025 logos. There are several green and grey boxes with text. Text reads: Call for papers! SilviLaser 2025: Laser scanning applications in forest management. Open for submissions from SilviLaser 2025 conference participants, as well as non-participants. Guest editors: Dr. Alexis Achim, Université Laval, Canada; Dr. Nicholas Coops, University of British Columbia, Canada; Dr. Amy Wotherspoon, University of British Columbia, Canada. Submission deadline: 30th November 2025. More information here: https://academic.oup.com/forestry/pages/call-for-papers. There is also a QR code that takes you to Forestry special issue webpage.
September 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Drivers of tree decline in semi-arid mountainous forests ⛰️📉

Shafeian et al. combine environmental data from open source databases and spectral imaging to assess tree decline in semi-arid Zagros forests in Iran.

Read more about how their findings impact forest management 👇
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Diagram showing the study workflow: the left side displays the GAM formation for comparing potential decline drivers at individual tree and tree group levels. The right side demonstrates the remote sensing analysis on the bare soils of two declining and non-declining tree groups.
August 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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treecbh: a new R package for crown base height (CBH) detection using aerial laser-scanned data in broad leaved forests 🌳

Diószegi et al. develop a workflow that automates and optimises CBH detection in already segmented individual trees.

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🔧 github.com/DijoG/treecbh
Framework of the treecbh R package: tree isolation (a), vertical cross-sectional K-means clustering (b), and the 2D kernel method (c). The detected crown base height is illustrated in the graph at the bottom right.
August 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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A deadly duo: disease and drought in oaks 🦠🍂

de la Mata et al. studied the genetic variation in susceptibility to drought in holm oak seedlings inoculated with the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi.

Read more about their experiment here 👇
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Graphic depiction summarizing susceptibility and impact of Quercus ilex (top row) and Quercus suber (bottom row) to Phytophthora cinnamomi (Pc) infection and subsequent drought stress. Quercus ilex shows high susceptibility to Pc infection and moderate mortality to drought, whilst Quercus suber shows higher drought stress and lower susceptibility to Pc infection.
August 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Forest disturbance maps 🗺️

Using Sentinel-2 data, Reinosch et al. present a validation method for reliable annual forest disturbance monitoring in the German forestry context.

Read more here 👇
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📷 GeoSN
Two aerial images side by side showing example of growing disturbance patches. Disturbances detected between 2018 and 2020 are shown on the left side, and disturbances of the same area detected between 2018 and 2022 on the right side. Aerial images from 2020 and 2022 are displayed in the background. Photo credit: GeoSN.
August 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Rodent dynamics in microhabitats in the forest understory 🐁🌳

Using capture-mark-recapture trapping, Zegadło et al. examined the association of two sympatric rodent species with course woody debris in Białowieża Forest, Poland.

Read more here 👇
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Nested map showing the study area and set up in Białowieża Forest (Poland) where the impact of coarse woody debris on habitat use of two rodent species was examined.
July 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Trait variation in European alder species 🌱

Gomes Marques et al. assess the phenotypic and genotypic trait variation in two Alnus species from populations across each species’ upper and lower distribution limits.

Read more here 👇
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Graphical abstract with three panels showing a map of the distributional limits of two alder species (panel 1) that were assessed for phenotypic and genotypic trait variation (panel 2). Panel 3 shows the trait x environment interaction and trait differences between the two species.
July 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Economic evaluation of a tree breeding programme 📈🌲

In their economic sensitivity analysis, Saraev et al. show that using improved Scots pine forest reproductive material is cost-effective, outperforming the current timber production and financial outcomes.

Read more here 👇
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Four growth curves for Scots pine yield class 10 and stand volume per hectare: lower smooth line (No Thin)—stand volume with no thinning, top smooth line (Thin TotVol)—total thinned stand volume, which is the sum of the standing volume (sawtooth line, Thin), and cumulative volume of thinnings (lowest step like line).
July 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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🌟Editor’s choice article🌟

Xing et al. review the research progress on climate change vulnerability (CCV) in urban forests.

They examine research trends over the last 3 decades, identify research gaps & suggest avenues for future research in evaluating CCV in urban forests.

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Synthesis diagram of the research review on the climate change vulnerability of urban forests. The diagram shows research assessments from species to ecosystem level (e.g. impacts and adaptive capacity) and identifies 4 key research needs (e.g. increased field-data, integration of below-ground processes).
July 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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🌟July issue is out!

Browse articles on:

🌡️ Climate change vulnerability of urban forests
📉 Drivers of tree decline in semi-arid forests
🧬 Economic evaluation of a tree improvement programme
🌳 New R package for crown base height detection

+ much more here 👇
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New Forestry issue announcement on a yellow background and cover of issue on the left hand side. Text reads: Editor's Choice: Research progress in the climate change vulnerability of urban forests (Xiaoyi Xing, Yarong Jiang, Song Li, Lin Yang, Li Zhang, Wenli Zhu). Plus articles on: Drivers of tree decline in Zagros semi-arid forests; Economic evaluation of reopening a dormant tree improvement programme; treecbh: an R package for crown base height detection using aerial laser-scanned data.
June 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Automating forest management 🌲

Li et al. develop a vision-based planting position selection system to assess the feasibility of autonomous reforestation.

Read more about their workflow here 👇
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📷: Linnea Hansson
Photo of the AORO (Arctic Off-Road Robotics Lab) unmanned forest machine in the clear-cut area attached with Bracke Forest’s scarifier and planter (in green), seedling storage, and transfer system (in red). Photo courtesy: Linnea Hansson.
June 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Timber forensics: tracing illegal logging of teak with Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers 🧬

Balakrishnan et al. integrate genomics and machine learning to verify geographic origin of teak wood in India.

Read more here 👇
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Dendrogram of teak dataset showing three major clades that indicate gene-ecological zones. Data based on test data (three known natural populations and two plantations) with reference database (18 natural populations).
June 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Drought responses in black locust plantations in northwestern China 📈

Liu et al. use a rainfall manipulation experiment to examine varying drought intensities on the physiological impacts and water-use strategy of a key plantation species in the Loess Plateau region.

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Location of the study site and drought manipulation experiment design: (top left) geographic location, (top right) an aerial photo of the study site in summer and control treatment, moderate drought treatment with 40% throughfall exclusion, and extreme drought treatment with 80% throughfall exclusion. The bottom set of images show a drawn illustration of the experimental set up of each other three treatments which correspond to the photos in the top right.
June 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM