Forest microclimates contrast strongly with the climate outside forests. To fully understand
and better predict how forests' biodiversity and functions relate to climate and climate …

Recent years have seen an exponential increase in the amount of data available in all
sciences and application domains. Macroecology is part of this “Big Data” trend, with a …

Forest canopies can buffer the understory against temperature extremes, often creating
cooler microclimates during warm summer days compared to temperatures outside the …

Since the late Cambrian era, bryophytes have been sha** terrestrial ecosystems through
unique and diverse suites of anatomical, physiological, and morphological traits. In this …

This open access book explores a new conceptual framework for the sustainable
management of the boreal forest in the face of climate change. The boreal forest is the …

Climate warming is likely to shift the range margins of species poleward, but fine‐scale
temperature differences near the ground (microclimates) may modify these range shifts. For …

Bryophytes are good indicators of habitat conditions and show associations with different
types of forests. In this study we assessed the diversity and distribution of forest floor …

Introduction Half a century since the creation of the International Association of Bryologists,
we carried out a review to identify outstanding challenges and future perspectives in …

Species at their warm range margin are potentially threatened by higher temperatures, but
may persist in microrefugia. Whether such microsites occur due to more suitable …

Fragmented natural habitats, such as old-growth forests, have been often considered island-
like systems. However, whereas the isolation of real islands is mostly a function of their …