In many parts of Europe, close-to-nature silviculture (CNS) has been widely advocated as
being the best approach for managing forests to cope with future climate change. In this …

The influence of forest management on fungal diversity and community composition has
been the subject of a wide number of studies over the last two decades. However, the …

Community ecology aims to understand what factors determine the assembly and dynamics
of species assemblages at different spatiotemporal scales. To facilitate the integration …

Forests managed for timber have an important role to play in conserving global biodiversity.
We evaluated the most common timber production systems worldwide in terms of their …

The majority of the world's forests are used for multiple purposes, which often include the
potentially conflicting goals of timber production and biodiversity conservation. A …

Background The development of forestry as a scientific and management discipline over the
last two centuries has mainly emphasized intensive management operations focused on …

Industrial forestry typically leads to a simplified forest structure and altered species
composition. Retention of trees at harvest was introduced about 25 years ago to mitigate …

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

Primary tropical forests are lost at an alarming rate, and much of the remaining forest is
being degraded by selective logging [1–5]. Yet, the impacts of logging on biodiversity remain …

Approximately 85% of the global forest estate is neither formally protected nor in areas
dedicated to intensive wood production (eg, plantations). Given the spatial extent of …