Abstract Purpose of Review Biodiversity is one of the most important features of forest
ecosystems. One of the goals of Sustainable Forest Management is to reduce biodiversity …

Coppice management has a long and ancient tradition in Europe, but still comprises over
14% of the forest area despite showing catastrophic declines in the past century …

Turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.) is a thermophilic oak species that is gaining importance in the
context of ongoing climate change because of its better resistance to climatic extremes and …

Coppicing is one of the oldest silvicultural practices and is still widely applied to produce
renewable energy from broadleaf forests. However, the consequences on microclimate and …

This paper explores which traits are correlated with fine-scale (0.25 m2) species persistence
patterns in the herb layer of old-growth forests. Four old-growth beech forests representing …

Forest understorey plants are sensitive to light availability, and different species groups can
respond differently to changing light conditions. A plant trait tightly linked to light capture is …

Studies addressing multiple aspects of biodiversity simultaneously (ie, multifaceted
approaches) can quantify plant diversity-environment links comprehensively-this is because …

How species assemble in a community is still an unresolved question in ecology, especially
in forest ecosystems. In temperate forests, the understory layer includes most of the plant …

Different European countries have interest in reviving the practice of coppice forest
management. Despite in temperate forests the understory represents more than 80% of the …

Although coppice forests represent a significant part of the European forest area, especially
across southern Countries, they received little attention within the Sustainable Forest …