The forest canopy is fundamentally important in biodiversity conservation and ecosystem
function. Cryptogamic epiphytes are dominant tree bole and canopy elements in temperate …

The effects of forest management on species richness and diversity have become important
research interests. The need to maintain biodiversity for forest ecosystem functioning has led …

The habitat heterogeneity hypothesis predicts that biodiversity increases with increasing
habitat heterogeneity due to greater niche dimensionality. However, recent studies have …

Major environmental gradients co‐vary with elevation and have been a longstanding natural
tool allowing ecologists to study global diversity patterns at smaller scales, and to make …

Severe natural disturbances are common in many forest ecosystems, particularly in the
Northern Hemisphere. Attempts to minimize their effects through forest management include …

Several experimental studies support the effectiveness of lichen diversity as an indicator of
environmental change. On the contrary, the potential of functional trait values of epiphytic …

Lichens are one of the most iconic and ubiquitous symbioses known, widely valued as
indicators of environmental quality and, more recently, climate change. Our understanding of …

Heavy natural disturbance in large protected areas of former commercial forests increasingly
evokes European parliaments to call for management intervention because a loss of …

Existing approaches for the assessment of forest management intensity lack a widely
accepted, purely quantitative measure for ranking a set of forest stands along a gradient of …

Lichens are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic association of a fungus with a
photosynthetic partner. Although the photobiont type is a key life-history trait, tests of the …