Special Virtual Issue Announcement: Modelling Forest Systems
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2019-01-31
影响因子: 2.497
期刊难度:
CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 3区
• 小类 : 生态学 - 3区
Overview
Forests are likely the most complex ecosystems on Earth, as they combine the biggestand longest-living organisms on the planet (trees) with a myriad of diminutive organisms such as microarthropods, fungi, or bacteria, to create habitat for thousands of plant and wildlife species around the world. In addition, forests are vital for livelihoods of human populations, providing a multitude of goods and services both in the forest neighborhood as well as in further regions. Such complexity has been translated in different modelling approaches to forest systems, from continental, regional or landscape-scales to individual models; and similarly, from very complex, integrative models to simpler models focused on one specific process. Such efforts have provided a wealth of research and expertise, but at the same time has generated a dispersion and lack of linkages between different modelling approaches and applications. In this special issue, we aim to create a space to share the latest trends in modelling forest ecosystems from ecological, economic and social approaches, to facilitate the further generation of interdisciplinary research. In addition, we believe that young modelers are in need of opportunities to showcase their skills, particularly their capability to manage complex computational procedures and large databases, in ways never tried before as new technologies are being increasingly deployed in forest ecosystems to gather data for model development and evaluation. This issue will gather theoretical, methodological, and applied papers exploring forest ecosystems. Articles entailing a systems ecology perspective and led by young researchers will be preferred.