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Volume 15 Issue 1, February 2026
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Evaporation dominates growing season evapotranspiration: A case study from a boreal larch forest with synchronized water supply and energy demand in China
Zhipeng Xu, Xiuling Man, Tijiu Cai, [...], Shuo Zhang, Liangliang Duan << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Variation of above-ground tree biomass and soil carbon stocks across neotropical forest types
Oscar R. Lanuza, Adrià Descals, Josep M. Espelta, [...], Josep Peñuelas, Guille Peguero << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Tree community composition modulates early-stage decomposition of standard litter through chemical and physical engineering
Joachim López, Karen Vancampenhout, Bart Muys, Quentin Ponette
Published: 01 February 2026
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Nitrogen addition alleviates negative effects of drought on root growth but aggravates them on leaf growth of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) seedlings
Ge Gao, Junyong Xia, Yaowen Xu, [...], Xiaogai Ge, Aibo Li, Ziqing Zhao, Zhengcai Li, Benzhi Zhou << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Simulating silver fir provenance responses to climate change: A forest modelling approach in the Northern Apennines
Silvio Daniele Oggioni, Lorenzo Matteo Walter Rossi, Silvia Terzago, [...], Friedrich J. Bohn, Giorgio Vacchiano << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Photoperiod as the primary determinant regulating the onset and cessation of wood formation in temperate trees
Nipeng Qian, Gangdun Li, Linxu Wang, [...], Chunchao Dong, Zhenzhao Xu, Qijing Liu, Guang Zhou << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Prediction of individual tree seedling volume, biomass, and carbon content via allometric projection
James A. Westfall
Published: 01 February 2026
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Spatial variation in non-structural carbohydrates reserves of pine species along climatic gradients: A global synthesis
Yanfang Wang, Fang Wang, Mai-He Li, [...], Yating Li, Yu Xia, Yan-Li Zhang, Yunpeng Luo, Xiaohua Gou << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Impact of heatwave and thinning on tree growth and soil water content in young lodgepole pine forests
Yiping Hou, Xiaohua Wei, Zhipeng Xu, [...], Sheena A. Spencer, Ming Qiu, Shixuan Lyu, Wenfei Liu << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Leveraging missing-data remote sensing for forest inventory
Qiling Wang, Qing Xu, Liuyuan Huang, [...], Weisheng Zeng, Bo Li, Timo Tokola, Ronald E. McRoberts, Zhengyang Hou << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Understory floristic composition of planted western white pine stands in the northern Rocky Mountains
Andrew S. Nelson, Theresa B. Jain, Jason Reinhardt, [...], Eva K. Strand, Nicole Mutchler, John Byrne << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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To clear-cut or not to clear-cut: Diversifying benefits from small-scale forestry in Sweden
Nataliya Stryamets, Marine Elbakidze, Lucas Dawson, Thomas Hahn
Published: 01 February 2026
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Comparing ecological memory effects of the bimodal radial growth in the Qinling Mountains and Mediterranean forests
Huiyue Yan, Xiaomin Zeng, Xiaohong Liu, [...], Yu Xue, Quanxi Li, Lingnan Zhang, Jun Liu << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Global warming levels exceeding 2 ​℃ may cause tipping point of low elevation forests in a peri-urban forest of the black forest foothills
Marc Djahangard, Maximiliano Costa, Harald Bugmann, Rasoul Yousefpour
Published: 01 February 2026
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Discrepancies between predictions of mainstream empirical growth models and observed forest growth of Pinus radiata (D. Don) plantations in New Zealand
Serajis Salekin, Yvette Dickinson, Jo Liddell, [...], Christine Dodunski, Priscilla Lad, Steven Dovey, Donald A. White, David Pont << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Tree biomass allocation is governed by allometry but modulated by optimization
Man Hu, Hang Shi, Rui He, [...], Nana Wang, Yuzhen Han, Haishan Dang, Quanfa Zhang << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Height-based biomass models differ for naturally regenerated and planted young trees
Peter Marčiš, Jozef Pajtík, Bohdan Konôpka, Martin Lukac
Published: 01 February 2026
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Enhanced warming due to afforestation and deforestation driven by both radiative and non-radiative effects in the mid-latitude Greater and Lesser Khingan mountains ecoregion of China
Wenjuan Shen, Tongyu Wang, Zhuang Zuo, [...], Jiaying He, Tao He, Xiangping Hu, Chengquan Huang << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Wildfire increased summer low flows in snow-dominated watersheds: A combined approach of hydrometric monitoring and geochemical tracing
Shixuan Lyu, Xiaohua Wei, Ming Qiu, [...], Mackenzie Myers, Zhaozhi Wang, Jinyu Hui, Wenhui Yan, Tongqing Shen, Meirong Sun, Shuhui Wang, Yiping Hou << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Temperature determines the biomass of forest floor bryophytes: A cross-regional investigation in 413 sites
Zhe Wang, Defeng Feng, Yanqiang Jin, [...], Mijun Zou, Beibei Gao, Xin Liu, Weikai Bao << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Canopy and understory nitrogen additions differentially regulate soil organic carbon fractions via litter–microbe–mineral interactions
Youchao Chen, Qinxi Liu, Xinli Chen, [...], Ji Chen, Biao Zhu, Shenglei Fu, Scott X. Chang, Yanjiang Cai << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Old-growth mixed beech-dominated forests continue accumulating carbon with advancing age
Katarína Markuljaková, Marek Svitok, Martin Mikoláš, [...], Jeňýk Hofmeister, Wiliam S. Keeton, Anders Alhström, Dheeraj Ralhan, Jakob Pavlin, Audrey Rose Salerno, Daniel Kozák, Daniela Dúhová, Pavel Janda, Stjepan Mikac, Tzvetan Zlatanov, Momchil Panayotov, Elvin Toromani, Srdjan Keren, Abdulla Dikku, Cătălin-Constantin Roibu, Krešimir Begović, Radek Bače, Ivo Pardus, Martin Dušátko, Miroslav Svoboda << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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Non-native shrub overrides understory assembly rules through ecosystem engineering
Patryk Czortek, Mateusz Rawlik, Marcin Koprowski, [...], Piotr Sewerniak, Radosław Puchałka << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
2026, 15(1)
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Modeling eccentric growth explicitly to investigate intra-annual drivers of xylem cell production using xylogenetic data
Lucie Nina Barbier, Marc-André Lemay, Étienne Boucher, [...], Sergio Rossi, Fabio Gennaretti << Fewer
Published: 01 February 2026
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