Europe's forests are under pressure - elevated mortality & lower growth. New work by Jessie Foest sheds new light on the response of forest reproduction - seed production is declining too. Obvious question is what this means for regeneration & the future of forests?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution from a temperate forest landscape in Germany shows that a single year of tree responses to intense insect herbivory can counteract a decade of environmentally driven shifts in spring phenology. go.nature.com/4uASGMU 🌍🧪
The first pantropical paper of the PANTROP project pantrop-eu.com is a fact! In a study led by Tomonari Matsuo published in Global Change Biology lnkd.in/eJy_Jrgb we show that (see below)
🌳 Across the Atlantic Forest, at a broad-scale, seed rain patterns in 52 fragments were evaluated. While seed density increased with fragmentation, rainfall and forest cover were the main drivers of seed rain diversity, highlighting habitat amount as key to forest regeneration 👉️ buff.ly/g2bgrRK
Will climate change increase global forest deadwood carbon stocks (because of increasing tree productivity and mortality) or decrease it (because of increased deadwood decomposition)? Find out in the new paper by Edelmann et al., out now in @commsearth.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Hurray - new paper out in Functional Ecology! @funecology.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social
Wild large herbivores promote plant diversity and functional redundancy by reducing dominance: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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new article at @waldwissen.bsky.social : Tree-species mixtures reduce the risk of biotic damage and increase the resilience of forest stands. Preventive silvicultural management of stands plays a key role; @wslresearch.bsky.social; @swissforestlab.bsky.social www.waldwissen.net/en/forestry/...
New paper out @currentbiology.bsky.social! Led by Clara Wild we show that restoring heterogeneity in forests increases bat and bird diversity. 🧪🍁
Interestingly mechanisms differ between taxa 🐦🦇 and diversity facets.
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🌲Do Swiss trees change their niche as they grow? Studying 43 species across Switzerland, it was found that most don't! Juveniles & adults share similar climatic niches, with ontogenetic shifts being small and still seemingly unrelated to climate change 👉️ buff.ly/d2w8saq
New paper out today @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Toby Jackson and Lucy Beese shows the profound impact that liana cutting has on the structural recovery of logged tropical forests
📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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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...
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, ...
