A5021803468- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Forest ecology and management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
University of Göttingen
2015-2024
Université du Québec à Montréal
2023
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
2023
Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt
2023
University of Padua
2023
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
2021
Flanders Marine Institute
2021
John Wiley & Sons (Germany)
2018
Fuchs (Germany)
2007
Technical University of Munich
1991-1994
The biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis and its impacts on ecosystem functioning. Understanding BPR critical for accurate valuation effective conservation biodiversity. Using ground-sourced data from 777,126 permanent plots, spanning 44 countries most terrestrial biomes, we reveal a globally consistent positive concave-down BPR, showing that continued biodiversity loss would result in an accelerating decline forest...
Abstract Climatic warming may lead to increased or decreased future forest productivity. However, more frequent heat waves, droughts and storms accompanying pathogen attacks are also expected for Europe considered be increasingly important abiotic biotic stress factors forests. Adaptive forestry can help ecosystems adapt these new conditions in order achieve management goals, maintain desired ecosystem services reduce the risks of degradation. With a focus on central Europe, this paper...
Significance Land-use intensification is a major threat to biodiversity. So far, however, studies on biodiversity impacts of land-use intensity (LUI) have been limited single or few groups organisms and not considered temporal variation in LUI. Therefore, we examined total ecosystem grasslands varying LUI with newly developed index called multidiversity, which integrates the species richness 49 different organism ranging from bacteria birds. Multidiversity declined strongly increasing LUI,...
Significance Ecosystem services derive from ecosystem functions and rely on complex interactions among a diversity of organisms. By understanding the relationships between biodiversity, functions, humans receive nature, we can anticipate how changes in land use will affect ecosystems human wellbeing. We show that increasing land-use intensity homogenizes synergies three organizational levels ecosystem, namely, services. Increasing keystone components, which are important for functioning...
Trade-offs and synergies in the supply of forest ecosystem services are common but drivers these relationships poorly understood. To guide management that seeks to promote multiple services, we investigated between 12 stand-level attributes, including structure, composition, heterogeneity plant diversity, plus 4 environmental factors, proxies for 14 150 temperate plots. Our results show attributes best predictors most also good several trade-offs services. Environmental factors play an...
Abstract For managed temperate forests, conservationists and policymakers favour fine‐grained uneven‐aged (UEA) management over more traditional coarse‐grained even‐aged (EA) management, based on the assumption that within‐stand habitat heterogeneity enhances biodiversity. There is, however, little empirical evidence to support this assumption. We investigated for first time how differently grained forest systems affect biodiversity of multiple above‐ below‐ground taxa across spatial scales....
Late-spring frosts (LSFs) affect the performance of plants and animals across world’s temperate boreal zones, but despite their ecological economic impact on agriculture forestry, geographic distribution evolutionary these frost events are poorly understood. Here, we analyze LSFs between 1959 2017 resistance strategies Northern Hemisphere woody species to infer trees’ adaptations for minimizing damage leaves forecast forest vulnerability under ongoing changes in frequencies. Trait values...
Abstract Insects are declining, but the underlying drivers and differences in responses between species still largely unclear. Despite importance of forests, insect trends therein have received little attention. Using 10 years standardized data (120,996 individuals; 1,805 species) from 140 sites Germany, we show that declines occurred most across trophic groups. In particular, (quantified as correlation year respective community response) were more consistent with many non-native trees or a...
Abstract Some forest‐related studies on possible effects of climate change conclude that growth potential European beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.) might be impaired by the predicted increase in future serious drought events during growing season. Other recent research suggests not only multiyear increment rates but also resistance and recovery during, respectively, after dry years may differ between pure mixed stands. Thus, we combined dendrochronological investigations wood stable isotope...
Existing approaches for the assessment of forest management intensity lack a widely accepted, purely quantitative measure ranking set stands along gradient intensity. We have developed silvicultural indicator (SMI) which combines three main characteristics given stand: tree species, stand age and aboveground, living dead wooden biomass. Data on these factors are used as input to represent risk loss, is function species age, density, regime, species. Consequently, consists component (SMIr)...
Temperate forest understorey vegetation poses an excellent study system to investigate whether increases in resource availability lead increase plant species richness. Most sunlight is absorbed by the species-poor tree canopy, making much more species-rich inhabit a severely resource-limited habitat. Additionally, heterogeneity of light availability, resulting from management-moderated composition and age structure, may contribute coexistence. One would therefore expect that diversity herb...