Tree canopies are one of the most recognizable features of forests, providing shelter from
external influences to a myriad of species that live within and below the tree foliage. Canopy …

Recent global warming is acting across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems to
favor species adapted to warmer conditions and/or reduce the abundance of cold-adapted …

Forest canopies can buffer the understory against temperature extremes, often creating
cooler microclimates during warm summer days compared to temperatures outside the …

A stable below‐canopy microclimate of forests is essential for their biodiversity and
ecosystem functionality. Forest management necessarily modifies the buffering capacity of …

Forest management integrating nature conservation aspects into timber production focuses
increasingly on small-scale interventions. However, the ecological consequences of gap …

A long-distance edge effect influences structure of species-rich plant communities in
temperate forest fragments surrounded by an agricultural landscape in Central Europe …

Forest management has a major impact on the understorey vegetation, with the intensity and
type of the applied silvicultural treatments driving variable vegetation responses. We …

Forests dominated by European beech are characterized by a humid and relatively cool
forest interior climate with low light intensities on the forest floor, which harbors an adapted …

Climatic conditions are a prime candidate to explain local patterns of biodiversity and
consequently there is great need of on-site climatic measurements. Among them, however …

Soil moisture shapes ecological patterns and processes, but it is difficult to continuously
measure soil moisture variability across the landscape. To overcome these limitations, soil …