During the last three decades, the area dedicated to tree plantations in northeast of
Argentina has increased five-fold at the expense of the native semideciduous Atlantic Forest …

Understory vegetation management is prevalent in successive short rotation eucalyptus
plantations to control interspecies competition and improve tree growth and timber yields …

Conversion from agriculture to forestry is considered a measure for mitigation of atmospheric
CO 2 but the impacts on soil C and N processes remain still unclear. We investigated …

In temperate forests, oak (Quercus castaneifolia) is an important species that grows along an
elevation gradient from the flood prone plains to high topographical positions of the …

Although northern temperate forests account for a substantial portion of global soil carbon
stocks, the relationship between soil carbon and management remains unclear. As the …

Over the past decades, many forests have been converted to monoculture plantations, which
might affect the soil microbial communities that are responsible for governing the soil …

Key message A vegetation analysis revealed the extent of recolonization by native
vegetation of a 25-year-old Cupressus spp. plantation in northern Iran. A young indigenous …

Intensively managed fast-growing tree plantations may affect plant diversity, and we have
little knowledge on how it is affected by site origin in order to better orientate site selection …

Purpose Forest management practices, such as thinning, can significantly change surface
soil properties, understory plant composition, and microclimate. Nevertheless, there remains …

Afforestation plays an important role in controlling soil erosion and nutrient loss on the Loess
Plateau in China. However, previous studies on soil nutrient changes have mainly focused …