Intensified human land use continues to increase habitat loss and fragmentation, and leads
to a homogenization of biodiversity. Specialized species with narrow niches seem to be …

Veteran trees are keystone structures currently in decline worldwide. In Europe, veteran
oaks (Quercus spp.) are important habitat trees for wood-living beetles. Still, we have limited …

Aim Plant and arthropod diversity are often related, but data on the role of mature tree
diversity on canopy insect communities are fragmentary. We compare species richness of …

Community metrics describing the structuring of ecological communities, such as
nestedness and the potential linkages between functional traits and the occurrence of …

Globally, boreal forests cover 33 percent of Earth's forested area, constitute the largest
terrestrial carbon source, and house an important biodiversity of forest-dependent species …

The pattern of species co-occurrence is instrumental for understanding community assembly
rules. In this paper, we analyzed the co-occurrence of tree species in a 25-ha old-growth …

In an earlier study (Franc et al., 2007), local species richness of saproxylic oak beetles
(including red-listed beetles) in forests was predicted mainly by the landscape (area of …

Biodiverse communities have been shown to sustain high levels of multifunctionality and
thus a loss of species likely negatively impacts ecosystem functions. For most taxa, however …

The functioning of plant communities is strongly influenced by the number of species in the
community and their spatial arrangement. This is because plants interact with their nearest …

Context According to the trophic-rank hypothesis, species may be differentially affected by
habitat isolation due to their trophic position in the food chain, ie high-order trophic levels …