Abstract Forests in Central Europe have been used since centuries and were systematically
changed by silvicultural practices since the late 1700s. Focusing on possible biodiversity …

Via sheltering, decoupling and buffering mechanisms, tree canopies have the capacity to
mitigate impacts of multiple global‐change drivers on below‐canopy processes and …

Tree density affects species diversity in forest plantations. Understory species diversity, tree
regeneration, and soil physicochemical characteristics were assessed under three planting …

Over the past centuries in Western Europe, the long history of forest management has
shaped both landscape-and local-scale forest structures. In France, a network of strict forest …

Assessments of forest ecosystem health for use in adaptive management need an
integrative multi-indicator examination at the stand scale. To assess forest health, we …

Abstract The Mediterranean Region constitutes a biodiversity hotspot and its forests have
provided multiple ecosystem services (ES) to human societies for millennia. In the last …

Policies to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss often assume that protecting carbon‐
rich forests provides co‐benefits in terms of biodiversity, due to the spatial congruence of …

The COST Action BOTTOMS-UP (CA18207: https://www. bottoms-up. eu/en/) took up the
challenge to increase the degree of sustainability of European temperate forest …

Root reinforcement is a mechanism through which forests contribute to the prevention and
mitigation of shallow instabilities in soils, one of the main hazards in mountain areas. This …

Ecological knowledge on long-term forest dynamics and development has been primarily
derived from the study of old-growth forests. Centuries of forest management have …