Focus, Scope and Objectives

Bosques Latitud Cero is a journal edited by the Universidad Nacional de Loja, Ecuador. It is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal aimed at professors, students, professionals, and researchers. The publication of articles in *Bosques Latitud Cero* is free of charge, with no article processing charges (APC).

The journal is published semiannually by the Universidad Nacional de Loja, with the objective of contributing to scientific and technological knowledge, thereby promoting the development and strengthening of research at the local, regional, and international levels.

It publishes original works on academic and scientific research topics from internal and external researchers of the Universidad Nacional de Loja. The journal promotes the free transfer of scientific knowledge to both authors and readers by disseminating the results of original scientific research in a wide range of disciplines, including the following research areas:

- Silviculture of native forests and plantations;
- Renewable natural resources;
- Forest production;
- Biodiversity;
- Timber and non-timber forest products;
- Wood technology;
- Watersheds and water resources;
- Forest industries;
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems;
- Economics and trade related to forest products;
- Rural socioeconomic development;
- Forest and agricultural genetics and improvement;
- Agricultural pests and diseases;
- Environmental land-use planning;
- Ecological restoration and climate change.