Frontiers of Earth Science - Call for Papers "Special Issue on Forest cover dynamics, drivers, and impacts under diverse human activities and climate change"
Forest covers approximately one-third of the world’s land surface area. Extensive forest area loss and gain have occurred under diverse human activities and climate change, which have substantial impacts on terrestrial carbon and water cycles, soil erosion, weather, climate, and other ecosystem services. The increased data availability from field surveys and remote sensing and the progress in models and analytics have substantially improved the knowledge of forest cover dynamics, driving factors, and impacts. This special issue aims to highlight recent advancements in forest cover dynamics, driving factors, and impacts. We welcome submissions covering a variety of topics, including, but not limited to:
1) Novel algorithms for mapping forest cover and forest cover dynamics, such as the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, remote sensing data analysis, and model-data fusion techniques in forest cover and forest cover dynamics.
2) Forest cover dynamics in the last few decades using multiple-source datasets, such as optical satellite images, microwave satellite images, LiDAR, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data, and field inventory plots.
3) Driving factors for forest cover dynamics, such as climate, fires, insects, socio-economic factors, environmental policies, and management; and
4) The broad impacts of forest cover dynamics on the socio-environment sustainability, such as terrestrial carbon and water cycle, climate, weather, soil erosion, and biodiversity.
Guest Editors:
Yuanwei Qin
Professor
College of Geography and Remote Sensing, Hohai University
Senior Researcher
School of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma
Email: qinyuanwei001@163.com; yuanwei.qin@ou.edu
Jia Wang
Professor
College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University
Email: wangjia2009@bjfu.edu.cn
Jun Ma
Associate Professor
School of Life Sciences, Fudan University
Email: ma_jun@fudan.edu.cn
Fang Liu
Senior Research Scientist
College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Tongji University
Email: fang.liu@ou.edu
Xiangming Xiao
Professor
School of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma
Email: xiangming.xiao@ou.edu
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: December 30, 2025
Expected Publication: June 30, 2026
Submission Guidelines
To submit to the special issue, please visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fesci and select the “Type” as “Special Issue: Forest cover dynamics, drivers, and impacts under diverse human activities and climate change” while submitting your manuscript.
Please visit https://www.springer.com/journal/11707/submission-guidelines for submission guidelines.
Contacts
If you have any questions regarding submission, please feel free to contact the Editorial Office of Frontiers of Earth Science via: fesci@re.ecnu.edu.cn.