Reforestation and afforestation often takes place in the form of monocultures. These have
increasingly come under criticism due to their greater susceptibility to adverse …

While the fundamental trade-off in leaf traits related to carbon capture as described by the
leaf economics spectrum is well-established among plant species, the relationship of the …

Key message Using an extensive dataset for 39 subtropical broadleaved tree species, we
found traits of the leaf economics spectrum to be linked to mean stomatal conductance but …

Plant polyphenols are involved in important ecosystem processes and may affect nutrient
cycling. Previous investigations have demonstrated detrimental effects of suboptimal sample …

Context Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) provides a valuable tool for the retrieval of detailed
individual-tree structural parameters, but has never previously been applied to young stands …

Understanding how communities respond to environmental gradients is critical to predict
responses of species to changing habitat conditions such as in regenerating secondary …

Future climates are likely to include extreme events, which in turn have great impacts on
ecological systems. In this study, we investigated possible effects that could mitigate stem …

In this thesis, the methodological problems arising from the peculiarities typically
encountered in BEF-studies as well as the resulting challenges in the ecological …

In biodiversity (BD) research, taxon identification is an inherent element in all types of
research, as virtually all types of BD data are taxon-based. These data range from …

Future climates are likely to include extreme events, which in turn have great impacts on
ecological systems. In this study, we investigated possible effects that could mitigate stem …