Forest Operations and Sustainability

The goal of this Special Issue is, therefore, to combine cross-disciplinary areas of forestry, highlighting sustainability, innovation, and latest research in the following areas:Forest operations (harvesting, biomass, road network planning, ergonomics, work safety, training, certification, supply chains, environmentally friendly forest operations, life cycle assessment, machine design, and mechanisation).Forest inventory and management (remote sensing, modelling, digitalisation, sensors, dynamics of the sustainable management, management of small private forests, etc.).Forest protection (forest fires, wildlife management, zoology, entomology, phytopathology, etc.).Forest genetics and dendrology (quantitative and population genetics, conservation of genetic resources, stress physiology, dendrology, etc.).Forest ecology (silviculture, phytocoenology, pedology, forest karst melioration with nature protection, etc.).