INRAE - Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (France)
BMC - BioMed Central (United Kingdom)
Annals of Forest Science is an international research journal devoted to multidisciplinary research for forests and wood in a changing world. It is one of the journals of the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and
Annals of Forest Science is an international research journal devoted to multidisciplinary research for forests and wood in a changing world. It is one of the journals of the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), a public non-profit research institution. The scope covers the following research areas:
- Biology of trees and associated organisms
- Forest dynamics and ecosystem processes under environmental or management drivers (ecology, genetics)
- Risks and disturbances affecting forest ecosystems (biology, ecology, economics)
- Forests as drivers of a sustainable, circular and inclusive bioeconomy (tree breeding, forest management and productivity, ecosystem services, silviculture)
- Wood sciences (relationships between wood structure and tree functioning, and between forest management or environment and wood properties)
The Editorial Board encourages:
- New ideas or methods for measuring or monitoring any property of interest for tree biology, forest ecosystem dynamics, wood
- Model-based papers focused on the forestry wood chain, including carbon accounting investigations, ecosystem services, quantification of the relationships between forest management and the properties of end products
- Studies addressing economic and social issues of forest management under climate change and forest based bioeconomy
- Review articles on timely topics in the scope of the journal
- Data papers presenting databases made available to a wider community
- Opinion papers presenting arguments about open research questions.
The Editorial Board does not encourage:
- Local case studies based on single stand experiments or small samples under local conditions, unless the addressed questions are innovative and timely
- Purely technological papers presenting applications without a broader scientific perspective
- Wood science papers that address purely technological questions unless the topic is very innovative or in relation to tree biology, forest ecology, or forest management.
