In a bid to increase awareness of sustainable management and development
of the world’s forests, the UN has declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests. To mark this occasion, Carbon Balance and Management and BMC Ecology
are co-publishing a thematic series entitled ‘Forests: Looking to the
Future’ to showcase the latest forestry research and published content
in both journals.

For
the series we will consider manuscripts on topics ranging from carbon
cycling and climate change, to deforestation and long term reforestation
strategies. We would like to welcome original research, reviews,
database, methodology, and software articles that address these topics.
The series will be presented on its own dedicated webpage.

The deadline for submissions is the 14th August and so please do submit
your manuscript to one of these journals using their respective online
submission systems, and indicate that you wish to be considered for the
series in your covering letter.  For guidelines on formatting your
manuscript for submission, please refer to the instructions for authors and for any questions regarding the thematic series or the journals please do contact us.

This
thematic series promises to be an interesting and timely collection to
coincide with the the UN Year of Forests and we look forward to
receiving your manuscripts.