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Temporal effects of thinning on soil organic carbon pools, basal respiration and enzyme activities in a Mediterranean Holm oak forest

open access: yesForest Ecology and Management, 2020
Soil organic carbon pools have an important role in the maintenance of ecosystems as a source of energy for soil microorganisms. Soil biological and biochemical properties are essential for the decomposition of organic matter.
C. Lull   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Identifying climatic refugia: Wet and complex habitats act as buffer for birds during severe droughts

open access: yesJournal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 8, August 2026.
Wet habitats and complex vegetation, therefore, are critical for providing stable microsites and water resources, underscoring the need to preserve and enhance the resilience of these habitats to support biodiversity during extreme events. Our study provides valuable insights for conservation strategies that should focus on identifying refugia ...
Jordi Vázquez‐Recasens   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tree regeneration following natural disturbance and harvesting indicates challenges maintaining forest composition and tree species diversity in northern USA forests

open access: yesJournal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 8, August 2026.
Our work establishes that previously observed challenges in advance regeneration contribute to poor recovery following harvests and natural disturbances in northern USA forests. Shifts towards lower severity harvesting in the region may be exacerbating post‐disturbance regeneration challenges, ultimately leading to low tree species richness and novel ...
Lucas B. Harris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stem Mortality and Forest Dieback in a 20-Years Experimental Drought in a Mediterranean Holm Oak Forest

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2020
Climatic warming is predicted to increase the intensity and duration of extreme weather such as droughts and heat waves. Climate change could therefore increase stem mortality and forest dieback in many ecosystems around the world, especially in semi ...
R. Ogaya   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Measuring maternal line selection driven by differential survival in ex situ collections for plant conservation

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Ex situ plant collections may be increasingly needed to protect representative samples of threatened or rare species and provide plant material for conservation translocation. A primary problem in these ex situ collections is loss of intraspecific variation due to plant death. Different management actions would be required depending on whether
Rebecca Sucher   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Choroplastic diversity in Italian oaks: evidence of a higher genetic richness in Southern and insular populations

open access: yesForest@, 2004
Results of the analysis of non-coding regions of the chloroplast genome in Italian population of deciduous oaks (subgenus Quercus) and holm oak (subgenus Scleropyllodris) are reported.
Fineschi S, Vendramin GG
doaj  

Tree biomass and deadwood density into aged holm oak (Sardinia) and beech coppices (Tuscany)

open access: yesForest@, 2012
Current National Forest Inventory highlight the further increase over the last two decades of coppice area under the position of mature standing crop or in the post-cultivation phase, both being developed throughout the original cultivation area.
Bertini G   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drought mitigation by thinning: Benefits from the stem to the stand along 15 years of experimental rainfall exclusion in a holm oak coppice

open access: yesForest Ecology and Management, 2020
In northern Mediterranean forests, increasing drought stress due to the on-going climate change is combined with stand ageing due to the lack of management.
J. Gavinet   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Parasitoid Wasp Glyptapanteles porthetriae Induces a Photoperiod‐Dependent Diapause‐Like State in Its Potential Overwintering Host Lasiocampa quercus

open access: yesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Volume 174, Issue 8, Page 896-907, August 2026.
We evaluated Lasiocampa quercus as an overwintering host for the koinobiont larval endoparasitoid Glyptapanteles porthetriae by exposing parasitized larvae to different environmental conditions and comparing parasitoid development with that in the primary host Lymantria dispar.
Thomas Zankl, Christa Schafellner
wiley   +1 more source

Spiders in the mosaic: How habitat heterogeneity and structure drive local spider diversity in a Mediterranean forest

open access: yesEcological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 810-826, August 2026.
We assessed alpha‐ and beta‐diversity patterns of spiders across different forests and across vegetation layers (ground, shrub, low canopy) at local spatial scales across various Mediterranean forest types. Across forests, alpha‐diversity increased with habitat heterogeneity, which also drove beta‐diversity patterns across plots .
Manuel Marquerie‐Córdoba   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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