Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2021 1. Deadwood provides a variety of habitats for saproxylic beetles. Whereas the understanding of the drivers promoting saproxylic beetle diversity has improved, the process of deadwood colonisation and beetle’s potential to trace resources is poorly ...
Marlene Graf +3 more
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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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Effects of understory characteristics on browsing patterns of roe deer in central European mountain forests [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Selective browsing by deer on young trees may impede the management goal of increasing forest resilience against climate change and other disturbances.
Sebastian Schwegmann +3 more
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How Large, Decayed, and Moist Must Rotting Logs Be to Act as Thermally Buffered Microhabitats in Temperate Eastern United States Forests? [PDF]
Ecol EvolThis study addresses the ecological role of coarse woody debris (CWD) as a thermally buffered microhabitat for saproxylic organisms in temperate eastern US forests. We measured internal and external log temperatures across four seasons in Southern Appalachian forests to test how log diameter, decay stage, and moisture influence thermal buffering.
Phillips RT, Garrick RC.
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Structural characteristics mediate forest mitigation potential against climate change and biodiversity loss. [PDF]
Ecol ApplAbstract 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 +11 more
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Disentangling the effects of multifunctional forestry practices on the abundances of birds and their invertebrate prey. [PDF]
Ecol ApplAbstract 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 +5 more
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Tree biomass and deadwood density into ageing Turkey oak coppices in Tuscany
Forest@, 2010 Recent data from the National Forest Inventory point out the further reinforcement of coppice area under the position of “mature” standing crop or post-cultivation phase, both of them being spread throughout the original cultivation area ...
Bertini G +3 more
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Open data for assessing habitats degree of conservation at plot level. An example dataset of forest structural attributes in Val d'Agri (Basilicata, Southern Italy) [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2023 Forests supply multiple ecosystem services and host a large proportion of the Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. In particular, they provide habitats for many taxonomic groups which can be threatened by forest unsustainable management practices.
E. Carli +7 more
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Repeated stand structure inventory dataset in long abandoned deciduous forest reserves in Hungary [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2023 Deeper understanding on natural forest dynamics requires long-term data series from forests that have not been affected by human interventions, which are often scarce especially in the Pannonian Bioregion.
Zsófia Szegleti +5 more
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, 2021 How species assemble in a community is still an unresolved question in ecology, especially in forest ecosystems. In temperate forests, the understory layer includes most of the plant diversity and significantly contributes to ecosystem functions ...
S. Chelli +6 more
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