Effects of natural disturbances and salvage logging on biodiversity–Lessons from the Bohemian Forest

S Thorn, C Bässler, M Svoboda, J Müller - Forest Ecology and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Severe natural disturbances are common in many forest ecosystems, particularly in the
Northern Hemisphere. Attempts to minimize their effects through forest management include …

Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

T Hilmers, N Friess, C Bässler… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The successional dynamics of forests—from canopy openings to regeneration, maturation,
and decay—influence the amount and heterogeneity of resources available for forest …

Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests

L Heidrich, S Bae, S Levick, S Seibold… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
The habitat heterogeneity hypothesis predicts that biodiversity increases with increasing
habitat heterogeneity due to greater niche dimensionality. However, recent studies have …

Sentinel‐2 accurately maps green‐attack stage of European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus, L.) compared with Landsat‐8

H Abdullah, AK Skidmore… - Remote sensing in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Natural disturbances induced by insect outbreaks have increased in forest ecosystems over
the past decades. To minimize economic loss and prevent a mass outbreak, early detection …

The impacts of climate change and disturbance on spatio‐temporal trajectories of biodiversity in a temperate forest landscape

D Thom, W Rammer, T Dirnböck… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing changes to climate challenge the conservation of forest biodiversity. Yet, in
thermally limited systems, such as temperate forests, not all species groups might be …

Bark beetles increase biodiversity while maintaining drinking water quality

B Beudert, C Bässler, S Thorn, R Noss… - Conservation …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing natural disturbances in conifer forests worldwide complicate political decisions
about appropriate land management. In particular, allowing insects to kill trees without …

In search for factors that drive hantavirus epidemics

P Heyman, BR Thoma, JL Marié, C Cochez… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
In Europe, hantaviruses (Bunyaviridae) are small mammal-associated zoonotic and
emerging pathogens that can cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) …

European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus, L.) green attack affects foliar reflectance and biochemical properties

H Abdullah, R Darvishzadeh, AK Skidmore… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus, L.(hereafter bark beetle), causes major
economic loss to the forest industry in Europe, especially in Norway Spruce (Picea abies) …

Assessing biodiversity by remote sensing in mountainous terrain: the potential of LiDAR to predict forest beetle assemblages

J Müller, R Brandl - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Effective biodiversity management can only be implemented if data are available on
assemblage–environment relationships. The level of detail needs to be relevant to the scale …

Effects of resource availability and climate on the diversity of wood‐decaying fungi

C Bässler, J Müller, F Dziock, R Brandl - Journal of Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Wood‐decaying fungi are crucial for the functioning of forest ecosystems. We tested the
hypotheses that on coarse woody debris (CWD), the abundance, diversity and composition …