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Fly me to the canopy: Diptera communities in oak forest crowns as bioindicators of stand decline

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Diptera diversity: Oak decline increases the overall Diptera diversity, particularly in saproxylic and floricolous guilds, likely due to more open canopies and greater deadwood and floral resource availability. Family responses: Dolichopodidae, Empididae, Hybotidae and Anthomyiidae thrive in declining stands, whereas Mycetophilidae and other fungus ...
Anastasia Paupe, Elodie Le Souchu, Christophe Bouget, Christophe Daugeron, Clovis Quindroit, Pierre‐Yves Gloaguen, Patrick Grootaert, Mike Ashworth, Paul L. T. Beuk, Christophe Lauriaut, Valery O. Korneyev, Elena P. Kameneva, André Reimann, Julia J. Mlynarek, Jocelyn Claude, Pierre Tillier, Vivian Feng, Dalton de Souza Amorim, Rudolf Meier, Ximo Mengual, Tatiana Kúdelová, Thomas Lebard, Anders Lindström, Tobias Lilja, Santiago Jaume‐Schinkel, Jonas Mortelmans, Marija Ivković, David Brice, Bruno Righetti, Jean‐Paul Haenni, Pauline Bierre, Cécile Vincent‐Barbaroux, Aurélien Sallé   +32 more
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Enhancing deadwood reporting for forest ecosystems: Bridge equations to convert deadwood measured at any diameter threshold to reference diameters

Ecological Indicators
National as well as international requirements have led to an increased need to quantify deadwood stocks in forest ecosystems given their important role not only in terms of carbon storage and regulation of the carbon cycle but also as biodiversity ...
Daniel Moreno-Fernández, Isabel Cañellas, Laura Hernández, Patricia Adame, Iciar Alberdi   +4 more
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Distribution of deadwood and other forest structural indicators relevant for bird conservation in Natura 2000 special protection areas in Poland

Scientific Reports, 2021
Numerous bird species, often rare or endangered, rely on the presence of standing and downed deadwood for shelter, nesting, and foraging. Habitat quality was evaluated on the basis of deadwood volume, the density of large standing deadwood, and the space
Leszek Bujoczek, Małgorzata Bujoczek, Stanisław Zięba   +2 more
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Taxonomic and methodological biases in saproxylic beetles: Body size, trophic group and detection probability

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Smaller saproxylic beetle species are described later and appear later in georeferenced databases, demonstrating a persistent body‐size bias that contributes to Linnean and Wallacean shortfalls. Trophic group, not body size, is the primary driver of detection probability in standardised flight‐trap surveys, with sapro‐xylophagous species detected most ...
Markus Franzén, Nicklas Jansson, Mustafa Avci, Antoine Brin, Hervé Brustel, Jan Budka, Jörn Buse, Giuseppe Carpaneto, Stefano Chiari, Lukáš Čížek, Mustafa Coskun, Jeremy Dagley, Peter M. Hammond, Estefanía Micó, Tuğba Öncül Abacıgil, Tomáš Pavlíček, Jiří Schlaghamerský, Pavel Šebek, Anne Sverdrup‐Thygeson, Sakin Vural Varli, Lars Westerberg, Inge Wilde, Agnese Zauli, Per Milberg   +23 more
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Climate Variables Outstrip Deadwood Amount: Desiccation as the Main Trigger for Buxbaumia viridis Occurrence

Plants, 2020
Deadwood is a biodiversity hotspot and habitat for numerous highly endangered species. Buxbaumia viridis has been assessed as a flagship species for deadwood-rich forests and is subject to monitoring under the Habitats Directive, yet we lack a solid ...
Michaela Kropik, Harald G. Zechmeister, Dietmar Moser   +2 more
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Improving spine‐based age estimation in centrarchid fishes using otolith‐derived training sets

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Nonlethal age determination is a priority in fish biology contexts where sacrifice is restricted, but estimates derived from nonlethally attainable structures tend to suffer from poor precision and accuracy relative to necessarily lethal, otolith‐derived estimates.
Matthew P. Woo, Stuart E. Jones, Brian S. Ankrapp, Avi Neumann, Julián Torres‐Dowdall   +4 more
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Selective seasonal foraging behavior of herbivores on a Danish island demonstrated by DNA metabarcoding

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Understanding how herbivores influence plant communities is critical for managing biodiversity and ecosystem functions, particularly in conservation areas undergoing restoration or rewilding, where free‐ranging large herbivores impact the vegetation development.
Henry F. N. Lankes, Louise I. Nabe‐Nielsen, Kristine Bohmann, Kasun H. Bodawatta, Jacob Heilmann‐Clausen   +4 more
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From quantity to quality: the evolution of forest restoration in the United Kingdom

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Over the past century, forest cover in the United Kingdom has increased threefold. However, the pathways, achievements, and shortcomings of this expansion remain underexplored. Objectives This study analyses the drivers, implementation, and legacies of forest restoration in the United Kingdom before and after 1990, which is when ...
Susanne Raum, Maitane Erdozain, Keith Kirby, Iciar Alberdi, Sergio de‐Miguel   +4 more
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Nurse structures effectively improve the performance of restoration plantings: a systematic review

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Tree planting for ecosystem restoration often occurs on disturbed, degraded, or former agricultural sites, where seedlings face harsh conditions like sun exposure, drought, wind, frost, and browsing, which can lead to poor performance.
Klaus Kremer, Sarah Holtkamp, Bengt‐Gunnar Jonsson, Jürgen Bauhus   +3 more
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