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Forest Science and Technology, 2023 The importance of a quantitative assessment of C and N contents of dead wood is increasing in forest ecosystems. This study aimed to determine the density and carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) status of dead wood with decay class for three pine species (Pinus ...
Byeonggil Choi +4 more
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No effect of lack of wood for acorn ant colonies development
The European Zoological Journal, 2021 Acorn ants mostly inhabit cavities in fallen twigs and hollow acorns. Such places, e.g., dead wood, provide an attractive living resource for many groups of microorganisms, like fungi and bacteria, which can be important for ants.
Sławomir Mitrus
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Stocks and Productivity of Dead Wood in Mangrove Forests: A Systematic Literature Review
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 The functional and ecological importance of dead wood in terrestrial forests is widely recognized and researched. In contrast, much less is known about dead wood in mangrove forests, despite its known or demonstrated contribution to key ecological ...
Lilian Mwihaki Mugi +3 more
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Factors Controlling Dead Wood Decomposition in an Old-Growth Temperate Forest in Central Europe
Journal of Fungi, 2022 Dead wood represents an important pool of carbon and nitrogen in forest ecosystems. This source of soil organic matter has diverse ecosystem functions that include, among others, carbon and nitrogen cycling.
Mayuko Jomura +4 more
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Beetles (Coleoptera) in deciduous dead wood tree species trunks in Lithuania [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 We present a list of beetles that emerged from wind-felled tree trunks of several tree species, including European ash (Fraxinus excelsior), aspen (Populus tremula), common oak (Quercus robur), birch (Betula sp.), small-leaved linden (Tilia cordata) and ...
Aistė Lekoveckaitė +2 more
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Dipteran (Bibionomorpha and Tipulomorpha) diversity in dead wood in Lithuania [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The aim of this study is to compile the species list of Bibionomorpha and Tipulomorpha flies associated with dead wood in Lithuania. Saproxylic nematocerans were studied from 2014 to 2020 in four protected areas and in five different tree species ...
Ina Gorban, Virginija Podeniene
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Effects of retained dead wood on predation pressure on herbivores in young pine forests.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Retention of logging residue as dead wood could be a method to simultaneously increase biodiversity and predation rates of pest insects, in managed forests.
Michelle Nordkvist +3 more
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Diversity, 2021 The importance of dead wood in forest ecosystems for the existence of invertebrates has been widely discussed in the literature. The major aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that the presence of dead wood in forests considerably increases the ...
Jerzy Błoszyk +4 more
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Estimation of coarse dead wood stocks in intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon using airborne lidar [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2019 Coarse dead wood is an important component of forest carbon stocks, but it is rarely measured in Amazon forests and is typically excluded from regional forest carbon budgets.
M. A. S. Scaranello +12 more
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Diversity, 2023 Dead wood is an important microhabitat for Uropodina mites (Acari: Mesostigmata). Earlier research has shown that dead wood contains about 1/3 of the Uropodina found so far in Poland, and its presence increases the overall biodiversity of forest ...
Jerzy Błoszyk +3 more
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