Our efforts towards speeding up the treatment of the manuscripts have borne their fruit! Indeed, this year, a third of the authors having submitted a manuscript to Annals of Forest Science received a response within two months. We do our utmost to keep to this schedule and to thus meet your expectations.
The transition to the electronic “Manuscript Management System” in a few weeks, the “Open Issue” in 2008 (papers will be published online as soon as the author has read the proof) will further reduce the publication delay even further.