Anthropogenic pressures are driving insect declines across the world. Although protected
areas (PAs) play a prominent role in safeguarding many vertebrate species from human …

Biodiversity is shrinking rapidly, and despite our efforts only a small part of it has been
assessed for extinction risk. Identifying the traits that make species vulnerable might help us …

The amount of carbon stored in deadwood is equivalent to about 8 per cent of the global
forest carbon stocks. The decomposition of deadwood is largely governed by climate,,–with …

Insects are declining, but the underlying drivers and differences in responses between
species are still largely unclear. Despite the importance of forests, insect trends therein have …

For managed temperate forests, conservationists and policymakers favour fine‐grained
uneven‐aged (UEA) management over more traditional coarse‐grained even‐aged (EA) …

Global sustainability agendas focus primarily on halting deforestation, yet the biodiversity
crisis resulting from the degradation of remaining forests is going largely unnoticed. Forest …

Resource availability and habitat heterogeneity are principle drivers of biodiversity, but their
individual roles often remain unclear since both factors are usually correlated. The …

Retention forestry implies that biological legacies like dead and living trees are deliberately
selected and retained beyond harvesting cycles to benefit biodiversity and ecosystem …

The importance of dead wood for biodiversity is widely recognized but strategies for
conservation exist only in some regions worldwide. Most strategies combine knowledge …

Identification of forest stands with priority for the conservation of biodiversity is of particular
importance in landscapes with a long cultural and agricultural history, such as Central …