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Influence of Deadwood, Tree‐Related Microhabitats, and Forest Structural Features on Saproxylic Arthropod Diversity

Ecology and Evolution
Forest composition and structural diversity play a key role in shaping habitat availability and biodiversity, particularly influencing the occurrence of saproxylic species associated with tree‐related microhabitats (TreMs).
Mohammad Jamil Shuvo, Michael Wohlwend, Katrin Heer, Yoan Paillet, Gernot Segelbacher   +4 more
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Full-scale experiments to examine the role of deadwood in rockfall dynamics in forests [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2022
Forests are rockfall-protective ecological infrastructures as a significant amount of kinetic energy is absorbed during consecutive rock–tree impacts.
A. Ringenbach, A. Ringenbach, A. Ringenbach, E. Stihl, E. Stihl, Y. Bühler, Y. Bühler, P. Bebi, P. Bebi, P. Bartelt, P. Bartelt, A. Rigling, A. Rigling, M. Christen, M. Christen, G. Lu, A. Stoffel, A. Stoffel, M. Kistler, S. Degonda, K. Simmler, D. Mader, A. Caviezel, A. Caviezel   +23 more
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Structural characteristics mediate forest mitigation potential against climate change and biodiversity loss. [PDF]

Ecol Appl
Abstract European forests play an important role for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. As they have been shaped by silviculture for centuries, it is important to understand how management practices affect forest structure and in turn influence the role of forests in achieving both goals.
Lunow J, Burrascano S, Balducci L, Chianucci F, Chojnacki L, Doerfler I, Hofmeister J, Hošek J, Ódor P, Schall P, Sitzia T, Simons NK.   +11 more
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Disentangling the effects of multifunctional forestry practices on the abundances of birds and their invertebrate prey. [PDF]

Ecol Appl
Abstract European forests are increasingly managed to harmonize production goals with biodiversity conservation, through practices such as retention and close‐to‐nature forestry. Forest birds may benefit from these practices, but it remains unclear how the effects of different management practices compare, and whether responses to management are driven
Cordeiro Pereira JM, Klingenfuß S, Basile M, Frey J, Mikusiński G, Storch I.   +5 more
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Assessing and Harmonizing Lying Deadwood Volume with Regional Forest Inventory Data in Wallonia (Southern Region of Belgium) [PDF]

The Open Forest Science Journal, 2012
Using lying deadwood or coarse woody debris (CWD) as an indicator of biodiversity and of sustainable forest management is on the rise among national and local forest inventories. Nevertheless choosing the most suitable sampling method is difficult as it depends mostly on CWD abundance and dimensions.
Ligot, Gauthier, Lejeune, Philippe, Rondeux, Jacques, Hebert, Jacques   +3 more
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Lying deadwood retention affects microhabitat use of martens ( Martes spp.) in European mountain forests

Wildlife Biology, 2023
Biodiversity loss due to intensive timber production is a ubiquitous conservation issue across temperate and boreal forest ecosystems. Retention forestry, the retention of deadwood and old‐growth features within production forest, is one management strategy that has been implemented in various countries around the world to conserve a wide range of taxa
Sebastian Schwegmann, Ilse Storch
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A simple concept for estimating deadwood carbon in forests

Carbon Management, 2023
Deadwood in forests is becoming an important topic globally for forest management and carbon markets. While deadwood volume is now routinely assessed by forest inventories and can be even monitored using remote sensing, data about deadwood carbon and ...
Mathias Neumann, Sebastian Echeverria, Hubert Hasenauer   +2 more
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The relationship between tree species and wood colonising fungi and fungal interactions influences wood degradation

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Deadwood is one of the main terrestrial carbon (C) pools and its decomposition is fundamental in biogeochemical cycles. As fungi are the main wood degraders, a study was carried out on deadwood-colonising fungal community changes as a function of host ...
Luisa M. Manici, Isabella De Meo, Maria Ludovica Saccà, Enrico Ceotto, Francesco Caputo, Alessandro Paletto   +5 more
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Vital rates and their multidecadal trends in the fir-beech old-growth forest of Badínsky prales

Journal of Forest Science, 2023
The study aimed to quantify annual mortality and recruitment rates on permanent research plots in the Badínsky prales old-growth forest. The data measured in four stands originate from six censuses, which together cover a 48-year period.
Ladislav Šumichrast, Peter Jaloviar, Matúš Komendák, Samuel Targoš, Stanislav Kucbel   +4 more
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Living and Dead Aboveground Biomass in Mediterranean Forests: Evidence of Old-Growth Traits in a Quercus pubescens Willd. s.l. Stand [PDF]

, 2017
For a long time, human impact has deeply simplified most of the forest ecosystems of the Mediterranean Basin. Here, forests have seldom had the chance to naturally develop a complex and multilayered structure, to host large and old trees and rich ...
Badalamenti, Corace, Fierotti, Gianguzzi, Gianguzzi, Giardina, Giardina, Hilbert, Hofmann, Hunter, La Mantia, La Mantia, Marchetti, Mason, Paletto, Pasta, Ryberg, Spies, Tabacchi   +18 more
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