Managing forests for increased structural complexity as well as acknowledging them as
'complex adaptive systems' has become a paradigm in modern silviculture. Despite this …

Forest structural complexity is a key element of ecosystem functioning, impacting light
environments, nutrient cycling, biodiversity, and habitat quality. Addressing the need for a …

The complexity of forest structures plays a crucial role in regulating forest ecosystem
functions and strongly influences biodiversity. Yet, knowledge of the global patterns and …

Ungulates place immense consumptive pressure on forest vegetation globally, leaving
legacies of reduced biodiversity and simplified vegetative structure. However, what remains …

Biodiversity plays a fundamental role in provisioning and regulating forest ecosystem
functions and services. Above‐ground (plants) and below‐ground (soil microbes) …

Forest structural diversity and its spatiotemporal variability are constrained by environmental
and biological factors, including species pools, climate, land‐use history, and legacies of …

Vegetation structural complexity and biodiversity tend to be positively correlated, but
understanding of this relationship is limited in part by structural metrics tending to quantify …

Abstract The effectiveness of Protected Areas in conserving forest ecosystems has been
examined at the continental scale using area-based habitat parameters, but knowledge of …

Aim Rapid global change is impacting the diversity of tree species and essential ecosystem
functions and services of forests. It is therefore critical to understand and predict how the …

Tropical forests are the world's most structurally complex ecosystems, providing key
functions like biomass accumulation, which is linked to this complexity. Tropical forests are …