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View article: Automated assessments can support regional Red Lists but need to be applied with caution: A case study from central Germany
Automated assessments can support regional Red Lists but need to be applied with caution: A case study from central Germany Open
Aim Expert-based regional Red Lists (RL) carry conservation legislation globally. Yet, they are often difficult to reproduce and their regular compilation by a dwindling number of expert assessors burdens many regional conservation authori…
View article: Plant diversity stabilizes soil temperature
Plant diversity stabilizes soil temperature Open
Extreme weather events are occurring more frequently, and research has shown that plant diversity can help mitigate impacts of climate change by increasing plant productivity and ecosystem stability 1,2 . Although soil temperature and its …
View article: Biodiversa+ strategic biodiversity monitoring governance document (Phase 1)
Biodiversa+ strategic biodiversity monitoring governance document (Phase 1) Open
This report compiles a first overview of the European biodiversity monitoring governance landscape including both national and sub-national viewpoints as well as the outcomes of the EuropaBON project and its proposals for a BMCC, plus feed…
View article: Decision-making of citizen scientists when recording species observations
Decision-making of citizen scientists when recording species observations Open
View article: Flying insect biomass is negatively associated with urban cover in surrounding landscapes
Flying insect biomass is negatively associated with urban cover in surrounding landscapes Open
Aim In this study, we assessed the importance of local‐ to landscape‐scale effects of land cover and land use on flying insect biomass. Location Denmark and parts of Germany. Methods We used rooftop‐mounted car nets in a citizen science pr…
View article: Winners and losers over 35 years of dragonfly and damselfly distributional change in Germany
Winners and losers over 35 years of dragonfly and damselfly distributional change in Germany Open
Aim Recent studies suggest insect declines in parts of Europe; however, the generality of these trends across different taxa and regions remains unclear. Standardized data are not available to assess large‐scale, long‐term changes for most…
View article: A checklist for using Beals’ index with incomplete floristic monitoring data
A checklist for using Beals’ index with incomplete floristic monitoring data Open
Christensen et al. criticized the application of Beals’ index of sociological favourability to adjust for incomplete species lists when comparing repeated surveys. Their main argument was that using Beals’ conditional occurrence probabilit…
View article: Urban street tree biodiversity and antidepressant prescriptions
Urban street tree biodiversity and antidepressant prescriptions Open
View article: Widespread decline in Central European plant diversity across six decades
Widespread decline in Central European plant diversity across six decades Open
Based on plant occurrence data covering all parts of Germany, we investigated changes in the distribution of 2136 plant species between 1960 and 2017. We analyzed 29 million occurrence records over an area of ~350,000 km 2 on a 5 × 5 km gr…
View article: Effective Biodiversity Monitoring Needs a Culture of Integration
Effective Biodiversity Monitoring Needs a Culture of Integration Open
Despite conservation commitments, most countries still lack large-scale biodiversity monitoring programs to track progress toward agreed targets. Monitoring program design is frequently approached from a top-down, data-centric perspective …
View article: Dark septate endophytes and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (<i>Paris</i>‐morphotype) affect the stable isotope composition of ‘classically’ non‐mycorrhizal plants
Dark septate endophytes and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (<i>Paris</i>‐morphotype) affect the stable isotope composition of ‘classically’ non‐mycorrhizal plants Open
The vast majority of terrestrial plants exchange nutrients with fungal partners forming different mycorrhizal types. The minority of plants considered as non‐mycorrhizal, however, are not necessarily free of any fungi, but are frequently c…
View article: Contrasting impacts of urban and farmland cover on flying insect biomass
Contrasting impacts of urban and farmland cover on flying insect biomass Open
Recent studies report declines in biomass, abundance and diversity of terrestrial insect groups. While anthropogenic land use is one likely contributor to this decline, studies assessing land cover as a driver of insect dynamics are rare a…
View article: Widespread decline in plant diversity across six decades
Widespread decline in plant diversity across six decades Open
Based on plant occurrence data covering all parts of Germany, we investigated changes in the distribution of 2146 plant species between 1960 and 2017. We analyzed 29 million occurrence records over an area of ∼350.000 km 2 on a 5 × 5 km gr…
View article: Winners and losers over 35 years of dragonfly and damselfly distributional change in Germany
Winners and losers over 35 years of dragonfly and damselfly distributional change in Germany Open
Recent studies suggest insect declines in parts of Europe; however, the generality of these trends across different taxa and regions remains unclear. Standardized data are not available to assess large-scale, long-term changes for most ins…
View article: Front Cover
Front Cover Open
Front cover Species-rich wet meadow at Hessenstein (District Plön) in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany). The photograph was taken at the end of the 1990s. The most conspicious fl ower colors are those of Silene fl os-cuculi (pink) and Ranunculu…
View article: Using incomplete floristic monitoring data from habitat mapping programmes to detect species trends
Using incomplete floristic monitoring data from habitat mapping programmes to detect species trends Open
Aim The loss of biodiversity has raised serious concerns about the entailing losses of ecosystem services. Here, we explore the potential of repeated habitat mapping data to identify floristic changes over time. Using one German federal st…
View article: Moderately common plants show highest relative losses
Moderately common plants show highest relative losses Open
Nature conservation efforts often focus on rare species. Common and moderately common species, however, receive much less attention. Our analysis of occupancy change of flora using a grid survey in 1980 and a habitat mapping survey in 2000…
View article: Wood decomposition is more strongly controlled by temperature than by tree species and decomposer diversity in highly species rich subtropical forests
Wood decomposition is more strongly controlled by temperature than by tree species and decomposer diversity in highly species rich subtropical forests Open
While the number of studies on the role of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning is steadily increasing, a key component of biogeochemical cycling in forests, dead wood decay, has been largely neglected. It remains widely unknown whether a…
View article: Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests
Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests Open
Human-induced biodiversity change impairs ecosystem functions crucial to human well-being. However, the consequences of this change for ecosystem multifunctionality are poorly understood beyond effects of plant species loss, particularly i…
View article: Toward a methodical framework for comprehensively assessing forest multifunctionality
Toward a methodical framework for comprehensively assessing forest multifunctionality Open
Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning ( BEF ) research has extended its scope from communities that are short‐lived or reshape their structure annually to structurally complex forest ecosystems. The establishment of tree diversity experiments…
View article: Strong positive biodiversity–productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment
Strong positive biodiversity–productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment Open
Forest ecosystems contribute substantially to global terrestrial primary productivity and climate regulation, but, in contrast to grasslands, experimental evidence for a positive biodiversity-productivity relationship in highly diverse for…
View article: Essential Annotation Schema for Ecology (EASE)—A framework supporting the efficient data annotation and faceted navigation in ecology
Essential Annotation Schema for Ecology (EASE)—A framework supporting the efficient data annotation and faceted navigation in ecology Open
Ecology has become a data intensive science over the last decades which often relies on the reuse of data in cross-experimental analyses. However, finding data which qualifies for the reuse in a specific context can be challenging. It requ…
View article: The effect of microclimate on wood decay is indirectly altered by tree species diversity in a litterbag study
The effect of microclimate on wood decay is indirectly altered by tree species diversity in a litterbag study Open
We studied the influence of tree species diversity on the dynamics of coarse wood decomposition in developing forest communities in a natural, topographically heterogeneous landscape. Using the litter bag technique, we investigated how and…
View article: Trade‐offs between physical and chemical carbon‐based leaf defence: of intraspecific variation and trait evolution
Trade‐offs between physical and chemical carbon‐based leaf defence: of intraspecific variation and trait evolution Open
Summary Despite recent advances in studies on trade‐offs between plant defence traits, little is known about whether trade‐offs reflect (i) evolutionary constraints at the species level or (ii) allocation constraints at the individual leve…