Our results demonstrate that the drivers of primary forest biodiversity are largely context-dependent; therefore, conservation strategies based on single biodiversity indicators or individual structu...

Halting deforestation and promoting restoration are at the core of strategies to confront the biodiversity and climate crises in tropical forests. Avoiding forest disturbances is also critically impor...

Scientific Reports - Region-specific forest structure pathways reveal climate effects on old-growth tropical forest biomass

As disturbance activity intensifies, forest management must identify strategies to facilitate the rapid recovery of disturbed sites. By studying 868 disturbed sites across Central Europe, we found th....

Deviations from the usual climate are causing trees to die prematurely. Even favourable growing conditions can have a negative impact.

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Although considered a relatively stable successional stage, old-growth forests can be dynamic, owing to both endogenous (life history, population dyna…

Wild et al. show in a large-scale experiment that increasing forest structural complexity enhances bat and bird diversity by separating within- and between-patch contributions to landscape diversity, ...

Climate change and global trade are increasing pressure from native and alien biotic pests. Numerous studies show that mixed stands are subject to less damage on average than monocultures. However, it...

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New predictions for how temporal stability and resilience depend on their resistance and recovery components are explored.

Ökophysiologisch fundierte Waldbewirtschaftung ist kein Rezept, sondern ein Denkmuster: Wer versteht, warum Bäume bei Hitze und Dürre absterben, kann Massnahmen gezielt an Schwachstellen ausrichten. W...

The microclimatic conditions within forests have great importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Consequently, understanding how management and associated changes in forest structure driv...

Boreal forests provide considerable global land carbon storage and uptake, but they are being rapidly transformed to managed secondary forests, with poorly quantified implications for ecosystem carbon...

A new, comprehensive study shows that Europe’s landscapes over the past more than 20 million years have predominantly been a mosaic of grasslands, scrub and woodlands of varying density. A light...

Our study provides the first nationwide, high-resolution assessment of forest regeneration, offering a valuable baseline for monitoring forest development. The regeneration density and indicator maps...

Biodiversity and Conservation - Tropical forests host considerable biodiversity but face degradation from timber extraction (“logging”). We examined how logging intensity affected tree...

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The importance of protecting logged and recovering tropical forests has gained much attention. Disturbed forests can, however, have hotter microclimat…

Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as enduring carbon sinks.

Harmonized land-use and land-cover datasets that include past and future periods are key to solving sustainability issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, existing harmonized pr...

Abstract. Different regions of the tropics vary in overall tree species diversity, with the tropical Americas exhibiting strikingly higher regional tree sp

This study finds that native tree extinctions and alien naturalizations are pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species. This global shift could affect carbon storage and ecosyste...