Journal of Forest Science, 2022 (vol. 68), issue 7
Spruce forest litter structure, distribution, and water retention along hiking trails in the Ukrainian CarpathiansOriginal Paper
Yurii Ivanenko, Ganna Lobchenko, Volodymyr Maliuha, Vasyl Yukhnovskyi
J. For. Sci., 2022, 68(7):241-252 | DOI: 10.17221/12/2022-JFS 
Almost 24% of the Ukrainian Carpathian ecosystems are assigned to the conservation fund due to their ecological values and attraction to numerous tourists. The forest litter in mountain forest stands plays an important role in terms of its ability to mitigate the impact of tourist activities, and erosion processes along with its contribution to the soil mineralization. Water interception, infiltration, and retention ability of forest litter have an impact on hydrological processes of forest ecosystems. At the same time, the accumulation and spatial distribution of litter can be affected not only by environmental conditions, but also by tourism. In...
Susceptibility of Cydalima perspectalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) larvae to some reduced-risk insecticides in laboratory bioassaysOriginal Paper
Fatemeh Moradi Afrapoli, Mahmoud Mohammadi Sharif, Hasan Barimani Varandi, Masoumeh Shayanmehr
J. For. Sci., 2022, 68(7):253-262 | DOI: 10.17221/67/2022-JFS
Box tree moth (BTM) Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) is the most harmful pest of different boxwood species in Europe and Asia including Caspian boxwood Buxus hyrcana in the Hyrcanian forests of Iran. Accessible and effective eco-friendly insecticides are required for the pest control. Thus, susceptibility of 2nd and 4th instar larvae of BTM to commercial formulation of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), two plant extract formulations, Bio1® and Matrine®, and three insect growth regulator (IGR) insecticides, chlorfluazuron, chromafenozide and diflubenzuron were investigated...
Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) applied to evaluating the forest management approachesOriginal Paper
Mohsen Mostafa, Nishtman Hatami, Kambiz Espahbodi, Farhad Asadi
J. For. Sci., 2022, 68(7):263-276 | DOI: 10.17221/27/2022-JFS
The study mainly aims at looking into the disparities in beneficiary's socio-economic status between the areas without implementation of forestry plans and the areas where forestry plans had initially been available even though they have recently been terminated as well. Babol Roud forestry plan is located in Lafoor forest area in the Babol County, the Mazandaran Province, Northeast Iran. This research was divided into three steps: first of all, by making use of Cochran's formula, we identified the number of participants. Later on, the Delphi method was employed in order to determine criteria and subcriteria through the questionnaires. From then on,...
Evaluation of coppice management relics based on coppice stool value variability in the Drahany HighlandsOriginal Paper
Robert Knott, Zdeněk Adamec, Barbora Uherková, Jan Kadavý, Michal Kneifl
J. For. Sci., 2022, 68(7):277-286 | DOI: 10.17221/74/2022-JFS
We assessed the value of coppice stools in connection with selected factors in three different areas of the Drahany Highlands (Czech Republic). The stool value was assessed by evaluating the morphological features. Stools were selected in forest stands with an age of 80 years and older. We analysed the potential influence of twenty-five variables (for example, the exposure, forest vegetation zone, potential natural vegetation, actual or historical owner, edaphic category, etc.) on the stool value. We found that the historical ownership, climatic region, and category of potential natural vegetation significantly affect the coppice stool value. We observed...