Integrated forest management has become a critical strategic action considering forests' multiple roles in nature conservation, bio-economy, renewable energy strategies, climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. Integrated forest management generally involves taking into account the totality of interactions of various sub-systems-social, economic, and ecological-within the biosphere, together with the integration of goals set for such management.
Restoration is a key process that allows a forest to restock after a disturbance and sustain itself. Forest restoration is an inclusive process which depends on collaboration among a wide range of stakeholders, including local communities, government officials, non-government organizations, scientists and funding agencies. Its ecological success is measured in terms of increased biological diversity, biomass, primary productivity, soil health as well as the characteristic of the target ecosystem. Traditional forestry management mostly includes the economic benefits of wood resources. With the deepening of green development, people pay more attention to the economic and social and ecological benefits, especially the latter.
Ecophysiology seeks to understand how species cope with variations in conditions and resources and how the responses of organisms affect their patterns of distribution and abundance, community structure and ecosystem processes. Ecological drivers for tree restoration and preservation include abiotic factors such as climate, type of substrate, and site aspect, and biotic factors such as interactions with other species of a given plant community, animals, or soil microorganisms.
The ecological benefits of the forest ecosystem greatly impact human health and social sustainable development, so researchers pay more and more attention to forest restoration and preservation. Forest resources could considerably support a sustainable and climate-neutral economy while ensuring that natural ecosystems are restored, resilient, and adequately protected. Therefore, understanding how forest ecological and morphophysiological responses are affected by various integrated management approaches is fundamental to any sound prediction regarding restoration and preservation across all the terrestrial biomes, worldwide.
In this context, specialists from various domains are invited to present their contributions (Original Research, Methods, Reviews and Mini Reviews, Opinions, and Perspectives) to this Research Topic to highlight the different approaches concerning sustainability and the integrated management of forest resources.
We welcome all themes that include the following but not limited to:
• Advance strategies for improving forest recreation and landscape protection: planning, management and conservation.
• Integrated management of forest resources: challenges and future prospects.
• Management and restoration of post-disturbance forests and agroecosystems.
• Role of climatic conditions and integrated management approaches to enhance plant adaptation under abiotic/biotic stress.
• Assessments, restoration and preservation technique of land development under integrated management.
• Ecological processes and anthropogenic drivers of regeneration and afforestation.
• How integrated management and climatic conditions influence, soil organic matter, biogeochemical cycling and nutrient use efficiency in forest ecosystems
• Morphological diversity, and physiological and ecological processes of plants.
Integrated forest management has become a critical strategic action considering forests' multiple roles in nature conservation, bio-economy, renewable energy strategies, climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. Integrated forest management generally involves taking into account the totality of interactions of various sub-systems-social, economic, and ecological-within the biosphere, together with the integration of goals set for such management.
Restoration is a key process that allows a forest to restock after a disturbance and sustain itself. Forest restoration is an inclusive process which depends on collaboration among a wide range of stakeholders, including local communities, government officials, non-government organizations, scientists and funding agencies. Its ecological success is measured in terms of increased biological diversity, biomass, primary productivity, soil health as well as the characteristic of the target ecosystem. Traditional forestry management mostly includes the economic benefits of wood resources. With the deepening of green development, people pay more attention to the economic and social and ecological benefits, especially the latter.
Ecophysiology seeks to understand how species cope with variations in conditions and resources and how the responses of organisms affect their patterns of distribution and abundance, community structure and ecosystem processes. Ecological drivers for tree restoration and preservation include abiotic factors such as climate, type of substrate, and site aspect, and biotic factors such as interactions with other species of a given plant community, animals, or soil microorganisms.
The ecological benefits of the forest ecosystem greatly impact human health and social sustainable development, so researchers pay more and more attention to forest restoration and preservation. Forest resources could considerably support a sustainable and climate-neutral economy while ensuring that natural ecosystems are restored, resilient, and adequately protected. Therefore, understanding how forest ecological and morphophysiological responses are affected by various integrated management approaches is fundamental to any sound prediction regarding restoration and preservation across all the terrestrial biomes, worldwide.
In this context, specialists from various domains are invited to present their contributions (Original Research, Methods, Reviews and Mini Reviews, Opinions, and Perspectives) to this Research Topic to highlight the different approaches concerning sustainability and the integrated management of forest resources.
We welcome all themes that include the following but not limited to:
• Advance strategies for improving forest recreation and landscape protection: planning, management and conservation.
• Integrated management of forest resources: challenges and future prospects.
• Management and restoration of post-disturbance forests and agroecosystems.
• Role of climatic conditions and integrated management approaches to enhance plant adaptation under abiotic/biotic stress.
• Assessments, restoration and preservation technique of land development under integrated management.
• Ecological processes and anthropogenic drivers of regeneration and afforestation.
• How integrated management and climatic conditions influence, soil organic matter, biogeochemical cycling and nutrient use efficiency in forest ecosystems
• Morphological diversity, and physiological and ecological processes of plants.
