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Temperate forest heterogeneity decreases local and landscape‐scale spider diversity through habitat filtering despite increasing species turnover

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
In a large‐scale German forest experiment, habitat heterogeneity increased spider turnover but reduced local alpha diversity through habitat filtering. Together, these effects lowered landscape‐scale spider diversity. As such, the study shows whether environmental heterogeneity increases or decreases biodiversity depends on the balance between habitat ...
Jean‐Léonard Stör, Julia Rothacher, Marc W. Cadotte, Anne Chao, Maike Huszarik, Michael Junginger, Lisa Köstler‐Albert, Oliver Mitesser, Akira S. Mori, Clara Wild, Jörg Müller   +10 more
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Leaf cuticle micromorphology of Fagus L. (Fagaceae) species

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2014
Cuticle micromorphology of all eight species of Fagus and an outgroup were examined in the present study. The genus Trigonobalanus was selected as the outgroup.
Seong Ho Cho, Keum Seon Jeong, Sun-Hye Kim, Jae-Hong Pak   +3 more
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Introduced plant species in the urban environment of the temperate-continental climate zone under conditions of global warming

Regulatory Mechanisms in Biosystems, 2023
Global climate change stimulates migration, which increases the number of introduced plant species, as well as those with a status of rarity, so the aim of the study was to identify highly promising plants of rare and decorative species in Ukraine to ...
N. V. Nuzhyna, I. Y. Ivanova, M. M. Gaidarzhy   +2 more
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Warm Spring Weather Alters Calling Phenology of Four Sympatric Early‐Breeding Anurans

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
An unusually warm March in 2024 (“false spring”) followed by freezing temperatures allowed us to assess the impact of a weather event on an amphibian community. The calling activity of all four species was associated with increasing temperature, and the first date of calling was advanced by 11–18 days.
Jeffrey P. Ethier, Nionta Habib, Marc J. Mazerolle, Vance L. Trudeau   +3 more
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Relationships between browsing damage and woody species dominance

Journal of Forest Science, 2009
The paper analyzes data on browsing damage to food-attractive woody species, viz. Acer campestre, Acer pseudoplatanus, Acer platanoides, Fraxinus excelsior, Sorbus aucuparia and most often eudominant Fagus sylvatica.
P. Čermák, P. Horsák, M. Špiřík, R. Mrkva   +3 more
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Weekend Overload: Day‐to‐Day Fluctuations of Outdoor Recreation Affect Wild Mammals' Space‐Use in a Popular Forest Reserve Near Florence, Italy

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
In an urban‐adjacent forested area, we investigated the spatial and temporal distribution of the wild mammal community in relation to day‐to‐day fluctuations of human presence occurring between working days and weekends. We deployed 52 camera‐traps systematically within an EU Natura 2000 area located within the metropolitan area of Florence, central ...
Ilaria Greco, Marco Salvatori, Claudio Bruzzone, Gianluca Serra, Giovanni Galipò, Davide Travaglini, Francesco Rovero   +6 more
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Landscape and Geography Determine Saproxylic Beetle Captures in Pheromone‐Baited Traps

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Pheromone‐baited traps at 39 forest sites across southern Sweden captured 58 saproxylic beetle species, including seven Red‐listed taxa. The effect of surrounding forest cover on beetle abundance may depend on latitude and longitude: positive effects were strongest in warmer southern and eastern regions but weakened or reversed in colder northwestern ...
Markus Franzén, Christoffer Fristedt, Olof Persson, Per Milberg, Victor Johansson   +4 more
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Dendroclimatic reconstruction of the precipitation series in the Polaciones valley (Cantabria)

Investigaciones Geográficas, 2018
A dendroclimatic reconstruction is carried out using the data from nine chronologies of the Fagus sylvatica taxon spread out in Polaciones, a valley of the central Cantabrian Mountains.
Víctor Lallana Llorente
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Allometric scaling models for tree saplings: Assessing potential fodder for ungulate herbivores

Trees, Forests and People, 2023
Knowledge of the quantity of twig dry mass (available fodder) of saplings is crucial for understanding tree recruitment under wild ungulate browsing pressure in forest ecosystems. Therefore, this study aimed to develop allometric equations for estimating
Aklilu Bajigo Madalcho, Jerzy Szwagrzyk, Zbigniew Maciejewski, Anna Gazda, Jan Bodziarczyk   +4 more
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Management and tree dieback alter beetle assemblage structure and body size distribution in a temperate German forest

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
Forest management and climate‐induced tree dieback alter the structural characteristics of forests, which could subsequently lead to changes in the structure of beetle assemblages. Beetle assemblages in more open forests exhibited less even abundance distributions, with fewer, more dominant species (higher rates of decline (r), higher dominance (d ...
Julian Lunow, Katja Wehner, Matteo Trevisan, Nico Blüthgen, Michael Heethoff, Jörg Müller, Nadja K. Simons   +6 more
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