As the terrestrial human footprint continues to expand, the amount of native forest that is free
from significant damaging human activities is in precipitous decline. There is emerging …

Temperate forests cover 16% of the global forest area. Within these forests, the understorey
is an important biodiversity reservoir that can influence ecosystem processes and functions …

The coastal zone is a transition zone between land and sea, and has a high biodiversity.
Land use changes in the coastal zone will inevitably have huge impacts on habitat quality …

Managing multiple ecosystem services (ES), including addressing trade-offs between
services and preventing ecological surprises, is among the most pressing areas for …

Humans have altered the Earth's land surface since the Paleolithic mainly by clearing woody
vegetation first to improve hunting and gathering opportunities, and later to provide …

Environmental and socio-economic changes are leading to increased levels of land
abandonment worldwide. The assembly of plant communities on old fields has informed …

One of the major challenges in ecology is to predict how multiple global environmental
changes will affect future ecosystem patterns (eg plant community composition) and …

Harmonization of timber production and forest conservation is a major challenge of modern
silviculture. For the establishment of ecologically sustainable forest management, the …

Over the last two decades, macroecology–the analysis of large‐scale, multi‐species
ecological patterns and processes–has established itself as a major line of biological …

Natural succession of vegetation on abandoned farmland provides opportunities for passive
rewilding to re-establish native woodlands, but in Western Europe the patterns and …