Ecosystems function in a series of feedback loops that can change or maintain vegetation
structure. Vegetation structure influences the ecological niche space available to animals …

Macroscale environmental gradients can have contrasting effects on organisms that occupy
different vertical niches, but we have little understanding of how this might result in different …

Loss of natural habitats and increased human activity results in warming up of cities and a
reduced biodiversity. Vertical greenery systems (VGSs) have been proposed to mitigate …

Tropical rainforest trees host a diverse arthropod fauna that can be characterised by their
functional diversity (FD) and phylogenetic diversity (PD). Human disturbance degrades …

Forest canopies host an abundant but often neglected diversity of arthropods, which
requires careful attention in times of ongoing biodiversity loss. Yet, how tree species …

Enhancing the stability of ecosystems is crucial and strategically important for establishing
regional ecological security. At present, the lack of a unified evaluation method and indicator …

Understanding the capacity for thermoregulation is critical for predicting organismal
vulnerability to climate change, especially in lowland tropical rainforests, where warming …

Aim Climate warming is shifting the bioclimatic optima of species towards mountaintops, but
the ability of organisms to track these changes also depends on their dispersal skills. Here …

The forest canopy is populated by diverse communities of invertebrate animals, some of
which are traditionally regarded as soil-dwellers. This phenomenon has been revealed for …

Thermal variation over space and time shapes global patterns of biodiversity and responses
of species to climate change. Vertical microclimate gradients from the understory to the …