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Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience Open
Ecological memory is central to how ecosystems respond to disturbance and is maintained by two types of legacies – information and material. Species life‐history traits represent an adaptive response to disturbance and are an information l…
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Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda Open
Forest microclimates contrast strongly with the climate outside forests. To fully understand and better predict how forests' biodiversity and functions relate to climate and climate change, microclimates need to be integrated into ecologic…
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Forest Soil Bacteria: Diversity, Involvement in Ecosystem Processes, and Response to Global Change Open
SUMMARY The ecology of forest soils is an important field of research due to the role of forests as carbon sinks. Consequently, a significant amount of information has been accumulated concerning their ecology, especially for temperate and…
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Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming Open
Local factors restrain forest warming Microclimates are key to understanding how organisms and ecosystems respond to macroclimate change, yet they are frequently neglected when studying biotic responses to global change. Zellweger et al. p…
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Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change Open
Forest resilience to climate change is a global concern given the potential effects of increased disturbance activity, warming temperatures and increased moisture stress on plants. We used a multi‐regional dataset of 1485 sites across 52 w…
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The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches Open
Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery across different restoration approaches. Through global …
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Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests Open
Natural forest recovery is an effective ecological alternative to tree planting in tropical forests under certain conditions.
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The MIMOSE Approach to Support Sustainable Forest Management Planning at Regional Scale in Mediterranean Contexts Open
In recent decades, Mediterranean landscapes have been affected by human-induced drivers, such as land use and climate change. Forest ecosystems and landscapes have been particularly affected in mountainous regions due to limited management…
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When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration Open
We present a historical overview of forest concepts and definitions, linking these changes with distinct perspectives and management objectives. Policies dealing with a broad range of forest issues are often based on definitions created fo…
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Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American Landscapes Open
Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience. Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed sources, warmer and drier postfire climate, or short-interval reburnin…
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Biodiversity and ecosystem services in forest ecosystems: a research agenda for applied forest ecology Open
Summary Given the substantial contributions of forest biodiversity and ecosystem services to society, forest sciences have a large potential to contribute to the integrity and sustainability of our future. This is especially true when the …
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Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests Open
Tropical secondary forests recover quickly (decades) in tree species richness but slowly (centuries) in species composition.
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Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide Open
Recent observations of elevated tree mortality following climate extremes, like heat and drought, raise concerns about climate change risks to global forest health. We currently lack both sufficient data and understanding to identify wheth…
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The ecology, distribution, conservation and management of large old trees Open
Large old trees are some of the most iconic biota on earth and are integral parts of many terrestrial ecosystems including those in tropical, temperate and boreal forests, deserts, savannas, agro‐ecological areas, and urban environments. I…
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A global review of past land use, climate, and active vs. passive restoration effects on forest recovery Open
Global forest restoration targets have been set, yet policy makers and land managers lack guiding principles on how to invest limited resources to achieve them. We conducted a meta-analysis of 166 studies in naturally regenerating and acti…
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Applications in Remote Sensing to Forest Ecology and Management Open
Remote sensing provides valuable insights into pressing environmental challenges and is a critical tool for driving solutions. In this Primer, we briefly introduce the important role of remote sensing in forest ecology and management, whic…
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A review of the effects of forest fire on soil properties Open
Forest fires are key ecosystem modifiers affecting the biological, chemical, and physical attributes of forest soils. The extent of soil disturbance by fire is largely dependent on fire intensity, duration and recurrence, fuel load, and so…
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Multidimensional tropical forest recovery Open
Resilient secondary tropical forests? Although deforestation is rampant across the tropics, forest has a strong capacity to regrow on abandoned lands. These “secondary” forests may increasingly play important roles in biodiversity conserva…
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Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950 Open
Over the last decades, the natural disturbance is increasingly putting pressure on European forests. Shifts in disturbance regimes may compromise forest functioning and the continuous provisioning of ecosystem services to society, includin…
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Impacts of forest restoration on water yield: A systematic review Open
While most studies reported a decrease in water yields, meta-analyses from a sub-set of studies suggest the potential influence of temporal and/or spatial scales on the outcomes of forest cover expansion or restoration projects. Given the …
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Unearthing belowground bud banks in fire‐prone ecosystems Open
Summary Despite long‐time awareness of the importance of the location of buds in plant biology, research on belowground bud banks has been scant. Terms such as lignotuber, xylopodium and sobole, all referring to belowground bud‐bearing str…
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Forest Insects and Climate Change Open
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Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: A meta‐analysis Open
Logging to “salvage” economic returns from forests affected by natural disturbances has become increasingly prevalent globally. Despite potential negative effects on biodiversity, salvage logging is often conducted, even in areas otherwise…
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A nationwide annual characterization of 25 years of forest disturbance and recovery for Canada using Landsat time series Open
In the context of complex demands on forest resources and climate change, synoptic and spatially-explicit baseline data characterizing national trends in forest disturbance and subsequent return of vegetation (and eventual return to forest…
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For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests! Open
As of 2020, the world has an estimated 290 million ha of planted forests and this number is continuously increasing. Of these, 131 million ha are monospecific planted forests under intensive management. Although monospecific planted forest…
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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context Open
The importance of biodiversity in supporting ecosystem functioning is generally well accepted. However, most evidence comes from small‐scale studies, and scaling‐up patterns of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (B‐EF) remains challenging,…
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A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system Open
Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly in recent decades. This large‐scale land‐use change has had great ecological, economic, and social impacts on both the areas converted to oil palm and their surroundings. However, research on the …
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Canopy mortality has doubled in Europe’s temperate forests over the last three decades Open
Mortality is a key indicator of forest health, and increasing mortality can serve as bellwether for the impacts of global change on forest ecosystems. Here we analyze trends in forest canopy mortality between 1984 and 2016 over more than 3…
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Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests Open
Forest ecosystems are an integral component of the global carbon cycle as they take up and release large amounts of C over short time periods (C flux) or accumulate it over longer time periods (C stock). However, there remains uncertainty …
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Having the right neighbors: how tree species diversity modulates drought impacts on forests Open
Summary Droughts are a rising concern for terrestrial ecosystems, particularly for forests where drought‐induced reductions in tree growth and survival are reported. Biodiversity has long been acknowledged as an important component modulat…