Central European temperate oak woodlands are highly valued for their rich biodiversity.
They are also of great economic importance and forest management aims to produce high …

Disturbances play an important role in forest dynamics. The determination of long-term
spatiotemporal characteristics of disturbance regimes is essential for understanding forest …

Changing environmental conditions may substantially interact with site quality and forest
stand characteristics, and impact forest growth and carbon sequestration. Understanding the …

Coppicing, once a common type of management in European broadleaved forests, was
abandoned in many places after WWII. This form of management provided a variety of …

Trees with hollows are key features sustaining biodiversity in wooded landscapes. They host
rich assemblages of often highly specialised organisms. Hollow trees, however, have …

The contemporary state of functional traits and species richness in plant communities
depends on legacy effects of past disturbances. Whether temporal responses of community …

Studies using tree-rings to reconstruct forest disturbance dynamics are common and their
number has been increasing in the recent years. Despite the evident need for a common set …

Traditional woodland management created a mosaic of differently aged patches providing
favorable conditions for a variety of arthropods. After abandonment of historical ownership …

Open woodlands are among the biologically richest habitats of the temperate zone.
Although open woodlands were much more common in the past and covered large areas of …

Spatial distribution of arthropods in woodlands has crucial implications for biodiversity
conservation and forest management. However, its determinants are insufficiently known. In …