Wood-pastures are archetypes of High Nature Value Farmlands in Europe and hold
exceptional ecological, social, and cultural values. Yet, wood-pastures have been through a …

Central European temperate oak woodlands are highly valued for their rich biodiversity.
They are also of great economic importance and forest management aims to produce high …

The ongoing changes to climate challenge the conservation of forest biodiversity. Yet, in
thermally limited systems, such as temperate forests, not all species groups might be …

The rates of anthropogenic climate change substantially exceed those at which forest
ecosystems–dominated by immobile, long‐lived organisms–are able to adapt. The resulting …

The habitat‐amount hypothesis challenges traditional concepts that explain species
richness within habitats, such as the habitat‐patch hypothesis, where species number is a …

Dead wood is a key substrate for forest biodiversity, hosting a rich and often threatened
biodiversity of wood-living species. However, the relationship between the occurrence of …

There is a lack of guidance on the choice of the spatial grain of predictor and response
variables in species distribution models (SDM). This review summarizes the current state of …

This chapter explores the importance of veteran trees for saproxylic insects. In particular, the
chapter provides detailed discussion of the saproxylic insects, veteran trees in past and …

When assessing changes in populations of species, it is essential that the methods used to
collect data have some level of precision and preferably also good accuracy. One commonly …

Context Many forest ecosystems around the world are facing increasing drought-induced
dieback, causing mortality patches across the landscape at multiple scales. This increases …