The Proceedings of the 21st Biennial Southern Silviculture Research Conference provides a collection of seven studies identifying a variety of factors influencing stand dynamics in the southeastern United States. While forest management was the central theme of this Research Topic, the studies within derive from a diverse set of biological disciplines including silviculture, fire ecology, plant physiology, functional ecology, forest ecology, plant physiology, and forest genetics. Moreover, the body of research presented in this Research Topic can help inform management decisions on broad conservation issues including forest tree improvement, bioenergy plantation establishment, longleaf pine conservation, prescribed fire efficacy, and invasive species impacts on native vegetation.
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silviculture, forest management, prescribed fire, functional ecology, forest ecology
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Willis JL and Dean TJ (2022) Editorial: Proceedings of the 21st Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference. Front. For. Glob. Change 5:841502. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2022.841502
Received
22 December 2021
Accepted
12 January 2022
Published
01 February 2022
Volume
5 - 2022
Edited and reviewed by
Manfred J. Lexer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
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*Correspondence: John L. Willis john.willis@usda.gov
This article was submitted to Forest Management, a section of the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
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