Forest management has caused severe ecological degradation throughout the Globe. One
of its most prominent consequences is the drastic change in dead wood profile and …

Land use and land use change affect deadwood amount, quality and associated biodiversity
in forest ecosystems. Old growth or virgin forests, which are exceptionally rare in temperate …

Dead wood is considered important in forest conservation, but patterns of fungal diversity on
dead wood have rarely been quantified. We investigated the relative importance of coarse …

The structure of Scandinavian boreal forests has changed in many ways as a result of
modern intensive forestry. One of the most fundamental changes is the loss of coarse woody …

Wood-decaying fungi are essential for the functioning of forest ecosystems. They provide
habitat for many other organisms and enable the regeneration of forests throughout the …

Deadwood plays a crucial role in the maintenance of biodiversity in forest ecosystems. Its
quantity and quality are commonly used in ecology and nature conservation as a proxy …

Commercial forestry increasingly aims at both optimizing timber production and maintaining
species diversity. To maintain the diversity of the species-rich group of wood-inhabiting …

Dead wood represents an important pool of carbon and nitrogen in forest ecosystems. This
source of soil organic matter has diverse ecosystem functions that include, among others …

Decline in the amount of coarse woody debris is a major factor resulting in habitat
deterioration for saproxylic organisms in forests. This study assessed the effects of forest …

Because biased biodiversity surveys may result in ineffective use of conservation or
research resources it is important that measures for biodiversity are accurate. In forest …