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16 Dec 2021

Call for a new AFS topical issue: Trees, forests and water – recent advances on resistance and resilience to water deficits.

Editors: Erwin Dreyer, Hervé Cochard, Jean Marc Guehl, André Granier (INRAE) ; Maurizio Mencuccini (CREAF). Scope : Ecophysiology and functional ecology of trees and forests have made tremendous progress over the last decades and attracted much attention in
15 Feb 2020

Why does Annals of Forest Science no longer accept e-only material?

The editorial procedures of Annals of Forest Science change continuously for the better (we hope!). After having put an emphasis on access to data associated to publications, we made another albeit smaller chage: we no longer accept
16 Oct 2019

New special issue: Impacts of natural disturbances on forest ecosystems under climate change: large-scale analysis and modelling

We are launching the special issue “Impacts of natural disturbances on forest ecosystems under climate change: large-scale analysis and modelling” Forest ecosystems play a key role in ensuring Earth’s climate stability by storing large amounts of carbon
24 Jul 2019

Guidelines for authors: how to share your datasets?

Science publication moves gradually towards Open Science, meaning that products of research are made as much as possible openly available to the scientific community. Annals of Forest Science aims to develop an explicit and voluntary policy about
18 Jul 2019

Annals of Forest Science promotes Open Science by publishing data papers

Open Science is a combination of practices enhancing  collaborative work and dissemination of all productions related to research processes. These practices result in a free availability of  research data, analytical pipelines, lab notes and other research products,
11 Jun 2019

New special issue: Establishment of second-growth forests in human landscapes: ecological mechanisms and genetic consequences

We are launching the special issue “Establishment of second-growth forests in human landscapes: ecological mechanisms and genetic consequences”. This special issue will gather articles arising from the ERA-NET BiodivERsA3 research project “Unraveling the Potential of Spontaneous Forest
25 Apr 2019

Call for submissions to AFS Special Issues

We are pleased to invite submissions of Research, Review, Data and Opinion papers to be considered for our topical collections. These collections (virtual collections) are brought together as a result of a symposium, a congress, a working group
16 Oct 2017

Revised Instructions for Authors & templates are available on Springer website

  A revised version of the Instructions for Authors has been uploaded on the Springer website, along with templates (.doc) for the Title page and the Research paper.   The main updates are: Data availability statement is
5 Oct 2017

New special issue : Forest Adaptation and Restoration under Global Change !

We are launching the special issue “Forest Adaptation and Restoration under Global Change“.  This special issue will gather articles from the IUFRO Task Force Forest Adaptation and Restoration under Global Change activities, past, present and future. Our
5 Oct 2017

New special issue : Forest information for bioeconomy outlooks at European level !

We are launching the special issue Forest information for bioeconomy outlooks at European level. This special issue stems from the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress session “Building relevant, harmonised, comprehensive, reliable and up-to-date forest information for bioeconomy outlooks