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Tree retention levels and prescribed burning effects on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities in a boreal Scots pine forest 北方苏格兰松林树木保留水平和规定燃烧对外生菌根真菌群落的影响
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学
Forest Ecology and Management Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123186
Delphine Lariviere , Line Djupström , Björn D. Lindahl , Anders Dahlberg
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Native forest cover, fragmentation, and seasonality shape functional diversity in forest bird communities 原始森林覆盖、破碎化和季节性影响了森林鸟类群落的功能多样性
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学
Forest Ecology and Management Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123201
Roberto F. Thomson , Andrew G. Gosler
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Native forest cover, fragmentation, and seasonality shape functional diversity in forest bird communities 原始森林覆盖、破碎化和季节性影响了森林鸟类群落的功能多样性
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学
Forest Ecology and Management Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123201
Roberto F. Thomson , Andrew G. Gosler
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Tree retention levels and prescribed burning effects on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities in a boreal Scots pine forest 北方苏格兰松林树木保留水平和规定燃烧对外生菌根真菌群落的影响
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学
Forest Ecology and Management Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123186
Delphine Lariviere , Line Djupström , Björn D. Lindahl , Anders Dahlberg
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Root exudate-driven mycorrhizal suppression underlies Indocalamus tessellatus invasion: Evidence from field and pot experiments 根分泌物驱动的菌根抑制是板栗入侵的基础:来自田间和盆栽试验的证据
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学
Forest Ecology and Management Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123189
Zhuangzhuang Qian , Guorui Xie , Qinglai Dang , Lu Qiu , Gang Lei , Bo Deng
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Root exudate-driven mycorrhizal suppression underlies Indocalamus tessellatus invasion: Evidence from field and pot experiments 根分泌物驱动的菌根抑制是板栗入侵的基础:来自田间和盆栽试验的证据
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学
Forest Ecology and Management Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123189
Zhuangzhuang Qian , Guorui Xie , Qinglai Dang , Lu Qiu , Gang Lei , Bo Deng
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Two decades of forest understory vegetation development in a 445-year chronosequence in the Siskiyou mountains of southwestern Oregon, USA 美国俄勒冈州西南部西斯基尤山脉445年森林林下植被发展的20年
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学
Forest Ecology and Management Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123148
Molly B. Smith Metok , Matthew J. Reilly , Maureen J. Jules , Erik S. Jules
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Two decades of forest understory vegetation development in a 445-year chronosequence in the Siskiyou mountains of southwestern Oregon, USA 美国俄勒冈州西南部西斯基尤山脉445年森林林下植被发展的20年
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学
Forest Ecology and Management Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123148
Molly B. Smith Metok , Matthew J. Reilly , Maureen J. Jules , Erik S. Jules
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Assessing regeneration dynamics post-wildfire: The role of salvage logging and site conditions in southern interior British Columbia 评估野火后的再生动态:不列颠哥伦比亚省南部内陆的抢救性伐木和现场条件的作用
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学
Forest Ecology and Management Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123178
Felix O. Oboite , Sheena Spencer
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Assessing regeneration dynamics post-wildfire: The role of salvage logging and site conditions in southern interior British Columbia 评估野火后的再生动态:不列颠哥伦比亚省南部内陆的抢救性伐木和现场条件的作用
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学
Forest Ecology and Management Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123178
Felix O. Oboite , Sheena Spencer
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