When organizing this special issue, we (the guest editors) decided to carry out a quick overview of current
trends in forest modelling. To do so, we used Clarivate’s Web of Science to carry out a search in the top five
journals with “Forestry” as their unique category (Forest Ecology and Management, Tree Physiology, Trees
– Structure and Function, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, International Journal of Wildland Fire),
and two journals specialized in ecological modeling (Environmental Modelling and Software and Ecological
Modelling). We searched for papers containing the same keywords as the papers published in the present
article collection on modelling forest ecosystems. We limited our search to the last three complete years in
the database (2017 and 2019). As several hundred papers were obtained, we made our personal selections as
our search was not intended to be exhaustive, only to provide a sense on what is going on nowadays in the
forest ecological modelling community (Table 1)
