Aims and scope

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 of Annals of Forest Science 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)

• 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

• 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