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期刊名称：FORESTS ISSN： 1999-4907 出版频率： Monthly 出版社： MDPI, ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, BASEL, SWITZERLAND, CH-4052   出版社网址： http://www.mdpi.com/ 期刊网址： http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests 影响因子： 2.634 主题范畴： FORESTRY 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal Imprint Full Journal Title Forests ISO4 Abbreviated Title Forests ISSN (electronic) 1999-4907 CODEN n.a. Publisher MDPI AG Publisher Location Basel, Switzerland Postal Address MDPI AG, Klybeckstrasse 64, 4057 Basel, Switzerland Editors see: Editorial Board Publication Frequency quarterly Publication Medium electronic only Publication Website http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests First Year Published 2010 Indexing Databases see: Indexing & Abstracting Covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, Web of Science). Impact Factor 1.094 (2012) About Forests Aims Forests (ISSN 1999-4907) is an international and cross-disciplinary scholarly journal of forestry and forest ecology. It publishes research papers, short communications and review papers. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical research in as much detail as possible. Full experimental and/or methodical details must be provided for research articles. There are, in addition, unique features of this journal: computed data or files regarding the full details of the experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, can be deposited as supplementary material we also accept manuscripts communicating to a broader audience with regard to research projects financed with public funds manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas are welcomed Subject Areas forest ecology, management, and restoration forest economics, natural resource policy and planning silvicultural systems forest entomology, forest pathology forest ecophysiology   and biology forest genetics, tree breeding and biotechnology climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in forests forest biomass, bioenergy, and carbon sequestration forest engineering tropical forests and management forest inventory, quantitative methods, and remote sensing forest soil management forest simulation modeling forest and nature based recreation wildland fire science and management wood properties human dimensions urban forests MDPI Publication Ethics Statement Forests is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications. Book Reviews Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to: MDPI AG Alexander Thiesen Klybeckstrasse 64 CH-4057 Basel Switzerland Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's News & Announcements section. 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Forests — Indexing & Abstracting Forests is covered by following databases and archives: Indexing & Abstracting Services AGORA (FAO) AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library) CAB Abstracts (CABI) COMPENDEX (Elsevier) Current Contents - Arts & Humanities (Thomson Reuters) DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals GeoBase (Elsevier) Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters) SCIE - Science Citation Index Expanded (Thomson Reuters) Scopus (Elsevier) Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) Full-text Archives CLOCKSS e-Helvetica (Swiss National Library Archive) LOCKSS (Digital Archive System) Content Aggregators EBSCOhost (EBSCO Publishing) J-Gate (Informatics India) Instructions to Authors Forests — Instructions for Authors Please first read the section 'Aims & Scope' to have an overview, and to assess if your manuscript is suitable for this journal. Shortcuts Submission Manuscript Preparation Potential Conflicts of Interest Peer-Review and Editorial Procedure Review / Referees English Corrections MDPI Publication Ethics Statement Supplementary Material Please use the MS Word template or LaTeX template to prepare your paper. Submission of Manuscripts Submission Process: Manuscripts for Forests should be submitted online using the MDPI Submission System (SuSy) at susy.mdpi.com. To submit your manuscript using SuSy, register and log in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form for Forests. Accepted File Formats: Microsoft Word: Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the Forests Microsoft Word template file must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult. LaTeX: Manuscripts prepared in LaTeX must be zipped into one ZIP folder (include all source files and images, so that the Editorial Office can modify the manuscript before peer-review, if needed). Ensure to send a copy of your manuscript as a PDF file also, if you decided to use LaTeX. When preparing manuscripts in LaTeX, please use the Forests LaTeX template files. Coverletter: Please provide a short cover letter where you detail the reasons why the editors of Forests should consider your paper for publication in this journal. Check in your cover letter whether you supplied at least 5 possible referees. Check if the English corrections are done before submission. Note Regarding Conference Papers: Expanded and high quality conference papers are also considered in Forests if they fulfill the following requirements: (1) The paper should be expanded to the size of a research article. (2) The conference paper should be cited and mentioned as a footnote on the first page of the paper. (3) If the authors do not hold the copyright to the published conference paper, authors should seek the appropriate permission from the copyright holder. (4) Authors are asked to disclose the conference paper in their cover letter including a statement on what has been changed compared to the conference paper. [Return to top] Manuscript Preparation Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm x 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides). Formatting / Style: The paper style of Forests should be followed. You may download a template file from the Forests homepage to prepare your paper. It is not necessary to follow the manuscript structure showed in the template file for review papers. Authors List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle name can be added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections. Abstract and Keywords: The abstract should be prepared as one paragraph of about 200 words. For research articles, abstracts should give a pertinent overview of the work, its purpose, the main methods or treatments applied; summarize the article's findings or facts and indicate the authors' conclusions or interpretation. As such, the abstract aims at being an objective representation of the article and must not contain results or data which are not presented and substantiated in the main text. Note that abstracts serve two main purposes: on one hand abstracts are used by potential readers to assess the relevancy of an article for their own work. On the other hand, abstracts are used by indexing databases to catalog articles appropriately. Also, three to 10 pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. We recommend that the abstract and the keyword list use words that are specific to the article yet reasonably common within the subject discipline. Abstract Graphic: Authors are encouraged to provide a self-explanatory graphical abstract of the paper to be used along with the abstract on the Table of Contents and search results. The graphic should not exceed 600 pixels width/height and can be provided as a PDF, JPG, PNG or GIF file. 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For embedded citations in the text with pagination, use both parentheses and brackets to indicate the reference number and page numbers; for example [5] (p. 10). or [6] (pp. 101–105). Include the full title for cited articles. See the Reference Preparation Guide for more detailed information. Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI): Conference slides, video sequences, software, etc., can be included with the submission and published as supplementary material. Please read the information about Supplementary Material Deposit beneath. [Return to top] Potential Conflicts of Interest It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflicts of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section. [Return to top] Peer-Review and Editorial Procedure Initial Check All submitted manuscripts are received by the Editorial Office. The in-house Managing Editor will perform a preliminary check of the manuscript to assess if: it suits the scope of the journal, whether it is properly prepared, and whether the manuscript follows the ethical policies of the journal. In case of doubt, the Managing Editor may consult with the journals’ Editor-in-Chief or an Editorial Board member. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal or are not in line with our ethical policy may be rejected before peer-review. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for revision and resubmission. Expert Peer-Review Once a manuscript passes the initial check, it will be assigned to several independent experts for peer-review. Experts may include past and present Editorial Board members and Guest Editors of the journal. However, we also actively seek other experts, which are identified during literature searches. Potential referees suggested by the authors are also carefully considered. As a general rule, referees should not have published with one or more of the co-authors during the past five years and should not currently work or collaborate with one of the institutes of the co-authors of the manuscript under consideration. At least two expert opinions will be collected for each manuscript. Revisions and Editorial Decision Based on the comments from the outside referees, the Editorial Office will usually ask the authors for minor or major revisions. If the comments are either very positive or very negative, the Editorial Office may directly ask the academic editor (usually the Editor-in-Chief or a Guest Editor) for a decision. Otherwise, the manuscript will be sent back to the authors for minor or major revisions. In case of minor revisions, the Editorial Office will ask the academic editor for a final decision on the revised version of the manuscript. In case of major revisions, the manuscript will usually be sent back to one or more of the outside referees before sending the paper to the academic editor for a decision. We allow a maximum of two rounds of major revisions. Author Appeals Authors may appeal editorial decisions by sending an e-mail to the Editorial Office of the journal. The Managing Editor of the journal will forward the manuscript and relating information (including the identities of the referees) to an appropriate Editorial Board member of the journal. If no appropriate Editorial Board member is available, the editor will identify a suitable external scientist. The Editorial Board member may judge the paper by himself or request additional expert opinions to judge the manuscript. The Editorial Board member will be asked to give an advisory recommendation on the manuscript. If the manuscript is rejected based on the Editorial Board member review, the decision will be final and cannot be revoked. Production and Publication Once accepted, a manuscript will undergo our standard production procedure. This entails professional copy-editing of the paper, English editing, proofreading by the authors, final corrections, pagination and publication on the www.mdpi.com website. [Return to top] Peer-Review / Referees During the submission process, authors are asked to suggest five potential referees with the appropriate expertise to review the manuscript. The editors will not necessarily approach these referees. Please provide as detailed contact information as possible (address, homepage, phone, e-mail address). The proposed referees should be experts in the field who can provide an objective report—they should not be current collaborators of the co-authors nor have published with any of the co-authors of the manuscript within the last 5 years. Proposed referees should be from different institutions to the authors. You may identify appropriate Editorial Board members of the journal as potential referees. Another possibility is to select referees from among the authors that you frequently cite in your paper. [Return to top] English Corrections This journal is published in English, so it is essential that for proper refereeing and quick publication all manuscripts are submitted in grammatically correct English. If you are not a native English speaker, we strongly recommend that you have your manuscript professionally edited before submission. Professional editing will mean that reviewers are better able to read and assess your manuscript. Additional fees of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs) will be paid by authors if extensive English corrections must be done by the Editorial Office. English-language editing will: improve grammar, spelling, and punctuation; improve clarity and resolve ambiguity; and ensure that the tone of the language is appropriate for an academic journal. We suggest that for this purpose your manuscript be revised by an English speaking colleague before submission. Authors can also use one of the English editing services for this purpose. Use of any editing supplier is not compulsory, and will not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication in Forests. Additional information: see the English Editing Guidelines for Authors. [Return to top] Publication Ethics Statement Forests is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. [Return to top] Supplementary Material Deposit In order to maintain the integrity of research records, we encourage authors to send supplementary data and files in electronic format, so that important scientific data and information is retained in full. Supplementary data and files can be uploaded as "Supplementary Files" during the manuscript submission process. The supplementary files will be offered to the referees as part of the peer-review process, although referees are not specifically asked to review supplementary files. Accepted file formats include (but are not limited to): data tables and spreadsheets (text files, MS Excel, OpenOffice, CSV, XML, etc.) text documents (text files, PDF, MS Word, OpenOffice, etc.) images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, etc.) videos (AVI, MPG, QuickTime, etc.) executables (EXE, Java, etc.) software source code Large data sets and files may also be deposited to specialized service providers (such as Figshare) or institutional repositories (preferably those that use the DataCite mechanism). [Return to top] Editorial Board Forests — Editors Journal Contact Forests Editorial Office MDPI AG, Klybeckstrasse 64, 4057 Basel, Switzerland E-Mail: forests@mdpi.com Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18 Editorial Office Editorial Board Editorial Office Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Eric J. Jokela School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, 353 Newins-Ziegler Hall, PO Box 110410, Gainesville, FL 32611-0410, USA Tel. +1 352 846 0890; Fax: +1 352 846 1277 Website: http://sfrc.ufl.edu/people/faculty/jokela/ E-Mail: ejokela@ufl.edu Interests: tree nutrition; production ecology; nutrient cycling; forest soil carbon management; silvicultural management systems Managing Editor Dr. Echo Zhang MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China Tel. +86 10 6280 0830 E-Mail: echo.zhang@mdpi.com Publisher Dr. Shu-Kun Lin MDPI AG, Klybeckstrasse 64, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland Tel. +41 79 322 33 79 Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/ E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com Editorial Board Prof. Dr. Arild Angelsen School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), P.O. Box 5003, 1432 Ås, Norway; Senior Associate, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia Tel. +47 6496 5698 Website: http://www.umb.no/ior/ansatte/arild.angelsen E-Mail: arild.angelsen@umb.no Interests: climate and forest (REDD); environmental income; international climate policy; poverty analysis; tropical deforestation Dr. M. Altaf Arain School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada Tel. 905 525 9140, Ext. 27941; Fax: 905 546 0463 Website: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/geo/faculty/arain/research/index.htm E-Mail: arainm@mcmaster.ca Interests: hydrometeorology; forest hydrology; evaporation; forest carbon cycle; managed forests; afforestation; eddy covariance technique; ecosystem models; land surface atmosphere interaction models Dr. Michael Battaglia CSIRO Ecosystem Science, Private Bag 12 Hobart Tasmania 7001, Australia Tel. +61 3 62375612; Fax: +61 3 62375601 Website: http://www.csiro.au/Organisation-Structure/Divisions/Ecosystem-Sciences/MichaelBattaglia.aspx E-Mail: Michael.Battaglia@csiro.au Interests: tree ecophsyiology; process-based modelling; stress physiology; forest production Contribution: Special Issue: Forest and Wood Vegetation Carbon Stores and Sequestration Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus Chair of Silviculture, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacherstr. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany Tel. +49 761 203 3678 Website: http://www.waldbau.uni-freiburg.de/front-page-en?set_language=en E-Mail: juergen.bauhus@waldbau.uni-freiburg.de Interests: silviculture; forest ecology; nutrient cycling; climate change adaptation Dr. Peter N. Beets New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd (trading as Scion), Private Bag 3020, 49 Sala Street, Rotorua, New Zealand Tel. +64 7 343 5577; Fax: +64 7 348 0952 E-Mail: peter.beets@scionresearch.com Interests: forest carbon stocks and changes; carbon modelling and validation; forest inventory; remote sensing and lidar; impact of disease on growth; forest production and nutrient cycling; impacts of climate change; land use change and forestry Contribution: Special Issue: The Role of Forests for Carbon Capture and Storage Prof. Dr. Robert A. Blanchette Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, 495 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul, MN 55108-6030, USA Tel. +1 612 625 0202; Fax: +1 612 625 9728 Website: http://forestpathology.cfans.umn.edu/Blanchette.htm E-Mail: robertb@umn.edu Interests: forest pathology; tree diseases; forest microbes; microbial diversity; biological processing; forest health; wood microbiology; wood decomposition Prof. Dr. Phillip G. Comeau Professor - Silviculture and Stand Dynamics, University of Alberta, Dept. of Renewable Resources, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, 751 General Services Bldg., Edmonton, AB T6G 2H1, Canada Tel. +1 780 492 1879; Fax: +1 780 492 4323 Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~pcomeau/ E-Mail: phil.comeau@ales.ualberta.ca Interests: silviculture; quantitative silviculture; mixedwood silviculture; vegetation management; silvicultural systems Contribution: Special Issue: The 24th IUFRO World Congress: Session 79 Sustainable Management of Spruce Dominated Ecosystems in Response to Climate Change Dr. Robert Evans SilviScan Pty Ltd, 8 Dobell Place, Doncaster, East Victoria 3109, Australia E-Mail: robertxevans@gmail.com Interests: wood structure; non-destructive testing; climate adaptation; forest products Prof. Dr. Robert Harrison College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Box 352100, Seattle, WA 98195-2100, USA Tel. +1 206 685 7463; Fax: +1 206 685 3091 Website: http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/Rob_Harrison/RobCV.html E-Mail: robh@u.washington.edu Interests: long-term forest productivity; deep soil processes; carbon sequestration; fertilization and nutrient cycling; organic waste recycling; bioenergy and biofuels feedstock Prof. Dr. Stephen C. Hart School of Natural Sciences & Sierra Nevada Research Institute; University of California, Merced, 5200 North Lake Rd., Merced, CA 95344, USA Tel. +1 209 228 4656 Website: http://www2.for.nau.edu/EELab E-Mail: shart4@ucmerced.edu Interests: forest ecology; plant-soil interactions; influence of climatic change, wildfire, and management on the structure and function of forests; controls on forest productivity Dr. Paul F. Hessburg USDA-FS, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1133 N. Western Avenue, Wenatchee, WA 98801, USA; School of Forest Resources, College of the Environment, University of Washington, USA Tel. +1 509 664 1722 E-Mail: phessburg@fs.fed.us Interests: landscape ecology; disturbance ecology; landscape assessment; decision support modeling; fire ecology; forest pathology Prof. Dr. Jarmo K. Holopainen Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Kuopio, Finland Tel. +358 40 355 3203; Fax: +358 17 163 191 Website: http://www.uef.fi/ceg/jarmo-holopainen E-Mail: jarmo.holopainen@uef.fi Interests: forest entomology; pest management; air pollution; climate change; chemical ecology; plant volatiles; tree physiology Prof. Dr. John Innes Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2045-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada Tel. +1 604 822 6761; Fax: +1 604 822 9106 Website: http://sustain.forestry.ubc.ca/ E-Mail: john.innes@ubc.ca Interests: forest management; forest-dependent communities; geomorphology; air pollution; climate change; criteria and indicators; certification; Chinese forestry; international forest policy Dr. Hervé Jactel Laboratory of Forest Entomology and Biodiversity, UMR BIOGECO - INRA, 69 Route d\'Arcachon, 33612 Cestas cedex, France Tel. + 33 (0)557 122 859; Fax: + 33 (0)557 122 881 Website: http://www.pierroton.inra.fr/biogeco/entomologie/personnel/Jactel/Jactelperso.html E-Mail: herve.jactel@pierroton.inra.fr Interests: entomology; ecology; insect, pest management; biodiversity conservation; plantation; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning Prof. Dr. Dale W. Johnson Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Nevada, Reno, Fleischmann Agriculture Bldg., Ms 370, Reno, NV 89557, USA Tel. +1 775 784 4511; Fax: +1 775 784 4789 Website: http://www.ag.unr.edu/dwj/ E-Mail: dwj@cabnr.unr.edu Interests: biogeochemical cycling in natural systems; effects of regional and global phenomena (atmospheric pollution, increased carbon dioxide and climate change) and localized influences (such as harvesting, fire, fertilization) on biochemical cycling, primarily in forest ecosystems; soil-soil solution chemical interactions; factors affecting organic carbon accumulation and loss in soils; nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus transformations in soils Contribution: Special Issue: Long-Term Effects of Fire on Forest Soils Prof. Dr. Rodney J. Keenan Head of Department of Resource Management and Geography, Director of Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, The University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie St Carlton, VIC, 3010 Australia Tel. +61 (0) 3 9035 8227; Fax: +61 (0) 3 9349 4218 Website: http://www.forestscience.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/rod_keenan/index.html E-Mail: rkeenan@unimelb.edu.au Interests: forests and climate change (mitigation and adaptation); forest assessment and planning; ecology and nutrient cycling; computer modelling of ecosystem functioning; forest and international development policy Contribution: Special Issue: Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Climate Change Prof. Dr. Sune Linder Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), P.O. Box 49, SE-230 53, Alnarp, Sweden Tel. +46 40 415162; Fax: +46 40 462325 E-Mail: sune.linder@ess.slu.se Interests: ecophysiology; long-term manipulation experiments; carbon and nutrient dynamics; forest production; impacts of climate change Contribution: Special Issue: Future Forests Dr. Timothy A. Martin School of Forest Resources and Conservation, PO Box 110410, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611-0410, USA Website: http://sfrc.ufl.edu/people/faculty/martin/ E-Mail: tamartin@ufl.edu Interests: tree ecophysiology; forest biology; silviculture; stand dynamics; carbon sequestration; water relations Prof. Dr. Brian C. McCarthy Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, 317 Porter Hall, Athens, OH 45701-2979, USA Tel. +1 740 593 1615; Fax: +1 740 593 1130 Website: http://www.plantbio.ohiou.edu/index.php/directory/faculty_page/brian_mccarthy/ E-Mail: mccarthy@ohio.edu Interests: ecological and life-history attributes associated with hardwood regeneration; disturbance ecology and community impacts; forest herb community structure and diversity; ecology, habitat susceptibility, and control methods for non-native invasive species; forest restoration and mine-land reclamation Prof. Dr. P. K. Ramachandran Nair School of Forest Resources and Conservation, IFAS, University of Florida, 118 N-Z Hall, PO Box 110410, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA Tel. +1 352 846 0880; Fax: +1 352 846 1277 Website: http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/faculty/nair/ E-Mail: pknair@ufl.edu Interests: agroforestry; carbon sequestration; degraded lands; environmental amelioration; integrated land-use systems; international development; multipurpose trees; nitrogen-fixing trees Dr. E.K. Sadanandan Nambiar CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Black Mountain Laboratories, Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, ACT, Canberra, Australia Tel. +61 2 62464233; Fax: +61 2 62464094 E-Mail: sadu.nambiar@csiro.au Interests: sustainable plantation forestry; ecosystem services; nutrient cycling; plantations in developing-tropical counties; forests and poverty Dr. C. Dana Nelson Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 23332 Success Road, Saucier, MS 39574-9344, USA Tel. +1 228 832 2747; Fax: +1 228 832 0130 Website: http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/staff/286 E-Mail: dananelson@fs.fed.us Interests: forest genetics; tree breeding; biotechnology Contribution: Special Issue: Fusiform Rust Disease—Biology and Management of Resistance Dr. Bruce Nicoll Forest Research, Northern Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland, EH25 9SY, UK Tel. +44 (0)131 445 6940; Fax: +44 (0)131 445 5124 Website: http://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/fr/INFD-64FGM2 E-Mail: bruce.nicoll@forestry.gsi.gov.uk Interests: adaptive forest management in relation to climate change; tree biomechanics; root system development; abiotic stress and acclimative growth; slope stability; forest risk management Prof. Dr. Kevin L. O'Hara Professor of Silviculture, 137 Mulford Hall, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114 USA Tel. +1 510 642 2127 Website: http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people_profiles/kevin-ohara/ E-Mail: kohara@berkeley.edu Interests: silviculture; stand dynamics; applied ecology; stand management Dr. Brian J. Palik Team Leader & Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 1831 Hwy. 169 E. Grand Rapids, MN 55744, USA Tel. +1 218 326 7116; Fax: +1 218 326 7123 Website: http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/people/palik E-Mail: bpalik@fs.fed.us Interests: disturbance ecology; ecological forestry; stand dynamics and development; plant community composition and diversity; regeneration Dr. George L. W. Perry School of Environment & School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand Tel. +64 9 373 7599; Fax: +64 9 373 7434 Website: http://www.sges.auckland.ac.nz/about_us/our_people/perry_george/index.shtm E-Mail: george.perry@auckland.ac.nz Interests: forest ecology; spatial ecology; fire; disturbance; ecological modelling; spatial statistics Dr. Elena Petkova CIFOR, Jalan CIFOR, Situ Gede, Bogor Barat 16115, Indonesia E-Mail: e.petkova@cgiar.org Interests: governance; accountability; transparency; decision making; development; civil society; corruption; climate change; environment/forests decision-making; government; governance Contribution: Special Issue: Forest Governance and REDD: Challenges for Policies and Markets in Latin America Dr. Philip J. Polglase Program Leader, Forest Systems, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Clunies Ross Drive, Black Mountain, Canberra, Austrilia Tel. +61 2 6246 4250; Fax: +61 2 6246 4250 Website: http://www.csiro.au E-Mail: philip.polglase@csiro.au Interests: nutrient cycling and soil fertility; forest carbon; soil carbon; carbon accounting; carbon modeling; hydrology; waste application Dr. Jesse C. Ribot Professor of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Insitute, 321 Davenport Hall, 607 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Tel. +1 217 333 7248 Website: http://www.geog.illinois.edu/people/ribot E-Mail: ribot@illinois.edu Interests: environmental policy; local government; rural representation; distributional equity; social vulnerability; emancipation; democracy Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Ruel Département des Sciences du Bois et de la Forêt, Faculté de Foresterie, de Géographie et de Géomatique, Université Laval, Pavillon Abitibi-Price, Local 2148, 2405, rue de la Terrasse, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada Tel. 418 656 2131, poste 7665; Fax: 418 656 5262 Website: http://www.cef-cfr.ca/index.php?n=Membres.JeanClaudeRuel E-Mail: jean-claude.ruel@sbf.ulaval.ca Interests: windthrow; silviculture; applied ecology; forest management; ecosystem management; forest regeneration Contribution: Special Issue: Forest Restoration and Regeneration Prof. Dr. Lisa J. Samuelson Center for Longleaf Pine Ecosystems, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA Tel. +1 334 844 1040; Fax: +1 334 844 1084 Website: http://clpe.auburn.edu/ E-Mail: samuelj@auburn.edu Interests: tree physiology; ecophysiology; water relations; tree response to environmental stress; climate change; carbon sequestration Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Straka Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Clemson University, Box 340317, Clemson, SC 29634-0317, USA Tel. +1 864 656 4827; Fax: +1 864 656 3304 Website: http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/departments/forestry/faculty_staff/straka_thomas.html E-Mail: tstraka@clemson.edu Interests: forest resource valuation; forest resource economics; forest resource management; forest resource management planning; forestry appraisal; quantitative forest management; forest history Prof. Dr. Em. Andrew P. Vayda Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520, USA E-Mail: apvayda@gmail.com Interests: causes of tropical forest fires and tropical deforestation; methodology of research on people/forest interactions Prof. Dr. Dave Verbyla Department of Forest Sciences, School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7200, USA Tel. +1 907 474 5553; Fax: +1 907 474 6184 Website: http://nrm.salrm.uaf.edu/~dverbyla E-Mail: dlverbyla@alaska.edu Interests: remote sensing; geographic information systems; spatial analysis; multi-temporal trends in boreal forests; boreal wildfire severity; bias in change detection estimates; GIS analysis techniques Contribution: In other journals: Special Issue: Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Special Issue: GIS-based Decision Making in Natural Resource Management Prof. Dr. Timo Vesala Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 48, FI-00014, Helsinki, Finland Tel. +358 405779008; Fax: +358 9 19150717 Website: http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/tutkimus/atm/english/research/micrometeorology.html E-Mail: timo.vesala@helsinki.fi Interests: forest meteorology; carbon cycling; water cycling; nitrogen cycling; aerosol deposition; sap flow; boreal ecosystems; urban ecosystems Prof. Dr. Robert G. Wagner School of Forest Resources and Cooperative Forestry Research Unit, University of Maine, 5755 Nutting Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5755, USA Tel. +1 207 581 4737; Fax: +1 207 581 2875 Website: http://www.forest.umaine.edu/facstaff/facstaff_pages/wagner/ E-Mail: robert.wagner@maine.edu Interests: forest sustainability; forest regeneration following harvesting; silvicultural practices; ecological effects of forest management practices in the Acadian forest Prof. Dr. John C. F. Walker School of Forestry, College of Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand Tel. +64 3 364 2118 Website: http://www.fore.canterbury.ac.nz/people/walker.shtml E-Mail: john.walker@canterbury.ac.nz Interests: wood quality from breeding to utilization (specific interest in pines and eucalypts); wood processing (mechanical properties, drying and preservation) Prof. Dr. Bradley B. Walters Department of Geography and Environment, Mount Allison University, 144 Main Street, Sackville, N.B. E4L1A7, Canada Tel. +1 506 364 2323; Fax: +1 506 364 2625 Website: http://www.mta.ca/faculty/socsci/geograph/walters.htm E-Mail: bwalters@mta.ca Interests: people-forest interactions; non-timber forest products; tree planting; agroforestry; deforestation; afforestation; mangroves; Caribbean forests Dr. David N. Wear Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 3041 Cornwallis Rd., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA Tel. +1-919-549-4011; Fax: +1-919-549-4047 Website: http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/index.htm E-Mail: dwear@fs.fed.us Interests: forest policy; land use; forest economics; integrated resource assessments