Communication is vital to progress in science.
Research findings form a new piece of scientific knowledge once they have been published and submitted to the critique of other scientists. Scientific publishing, again, is vitally dependent on the peer review process as a means of ensuring that results have been obtained by using a sound and appropriate research procedure. The editors of Silva Fennica and Acta Forestalia Fennica would like to extend their sincere thanks to the following scientists for reviews of manuscripts completed in 1996.