[HTML][HTML] Earth-observation-based monitoring of forests in Germany—recent progress and research frontiers: a review

S Holzwarth, F Thonfeld, P Kacic, S Abdullahi, S Asam… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
One-third of Germany's land surface area is covered by forest (around 11.4 million hectares),
and thus, it characterizes the landscape. The forest is a habitat for a large number of animal …

Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems

M Schleuning, D García, JA Tobias - Functional Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits and associated trait‐based concepts have driven rapid innovation in
ecology over recent years, with most progress based on insights from plants. However …

Micro‐and macroclimate interactively shape diversity, niches and traits of Orthoptera communities along elevational gradients

S König, J Krauss, A Classen, C Hof… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Temperature is one of the main drivers sha** species diversity and assembly
processes. Yet, site‐specific effects of the local microclimate on species and trait …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of heterogeneity on the ecological diversity and redundancy of forest fauna

L Heidrich, R Brandl, C Ammer, S Bae, C Bässler… - Basic and Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heterogeneity in forests might promote biodiversity not only through an increase in niche
volume but also through other processes, such as an increase in resources and their spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Forest structure characterization in Germany: novel products and analysis based on GEDI, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data

P Kacic, F Thonfeld, U Gessner, C Kuenzer - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Monitoring forest conditions is an essential task in the context of global climate change to
preserve biodiversity, protect carbon sinks and foster future forest resilience. Severe impacts …

Diversity–volume relationships: adding structural arrangement and volume to species–area relationships across forest macrosystems

EA LaRue, AG Downing, S Saucedo, A Rocha… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The species–area relationship (SAR) is a common pattern in which diversity increases with
the area sampled, but ecosystems are three‐dimensional (3D) and diversity–volume …

Saproxylic beetles' morphological traits and higher trophic guilds indicate boreal forest naturalness

R Wetherbee, T Birkemoe, RC Burner… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forests contribute to numerous ecosystem functions and services and contain a large
proportion of terrestrial biodiversity, but they are being negatively impaced by anthropogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Trait-environment interactions of saproxylic beetles as a guide to biodiversity conservation strategies

P Bergmark, J Hjältén, J Svensson, W Neumann… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conservation of biodiversity requires in-depth knowledge of trait-environment interactions to
understand the influence the environment has on species assemblages. Saproxylic beetles …

Can immature stages be ignored in studies of forest leaf litter arthropod diversity? A test using Oxford Nanopore DNA barcoding

M Fikáček, FS Hu, MH Le… - Insect Conservation and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Forest soil and leaf litter support diverse arthropod mesofauna for which diversity dynamics
is challenging to study due to the high number of species and specimens, small body size …

Vegetation analysis and ethnobotanical study of rubber agroforests in South Sumatra, Indonesia

S EDDY, S RIZAL, T KARTIKA, KJ SARI - Biodiversitas Journal of …, 2023 - smujo.id
Eddy S, Rizal S, Kartika T, Sari KJ. 2023. Vegetation analysis and ethnobotanical study of
rubber agroforests in South Sumatra, Indonesia 24: 2276-2283. Rubber agroforests (RA) …