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Open AccessXylem safety in relation to the stringency of plant water potential regulation of European beech, Norway spruce, and Douglas-fir trees during severe drought
Norway spruce operates with larger hydraulic safety margins (HSM) than beech and Douglas-fir despite the known drought sensitivity of spruce, questioning a pivotal role of HSM in drought tolerance.
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Open AccessAdaptive monitoring in action—what drives arthropod diversity and composition in central European beech forests?
Recent studies suggest that arthropod diversity in German forests is declining. Currently, different national programs are being developed to monitor arthropod trends and to unravel the effects of forest manag...
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Von der Netzführung zur Systemführung in Verteilernetzen
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Open AccessDiversification of coniferous monocultures in the last 30 years and implications for forest restoration: a case study from temperate lower montane forests in Central Europe
Planted monocultures of even-aged coniferous tree species are abundant worldwide but increasingly damaged by biotic and abiotic stressors and disturbances. In Central Europe, a fundamental goal of ecologically...
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Open AccessIntegrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential
Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system1. Remote-sensing estimates to quantify carbon losses from gl...
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Open AccessThe global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit
Understanding what controls global leaf type variation in trees is crucial for comprehending their role in terrestrial ecosystems, including carbon, water and nutrient dynamics. Yet our understanding of the fa...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions
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Open AccessNative diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions
Determining the drivers of non-native plant invasions is critical for managing native ecosystems and limiting the spread of invasive species1,2. Tree invasions in particular have been relatively overlooked, even ...
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Open AccessAbrupt height growth setbacks show overbrowsing of tree saplings, which can be reduced by raising deer harvest
Intensive ungulate browsing significantly impacts forests worldwide. However, it is usually not single browsing events that lead to sapling mortality, but the little-researched interactions of browsed saplings...
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Open AccessEffects of competition reduction on intra-annual radial growth of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) at stem base and crown base
In beech stands, thinning affects growth differently along tree stems, with higher and longer duration increment at stem base than at crown base while unmanaged stands depict opposite patterns.
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Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity
Increasing pressure on land resources necessitates landscape management strategies that simultaneously deliver multiple benefits to numerous stakeholder groups with competing interests. Accordingly, we develop...
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Open AccessRegeneration in European beech forests after drought: the effects of microclimate, deadwood and browsing
With progressing climate change, increasing weather extremes will endanger tree regeneration. Canopy openings provide light for tree establishment, but also reduce the microclimatic buffering effect of forests...
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Open AccessLinking structure and species richness to support forest biodiversity monitoring at large scales
Authors have analyzed the possible correlation between measurements/indicators of forest structure and species richness of many taxonomic or functional groups over three regions of Germany. Results show the po...
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Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients
The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most recognized global patterns of species richness exhibited across a wide range of taxa. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed in the past two centurie...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Influence of heterozygosity and competition on morphological tree characteristics of Quercus rubra L.: a new single‑tree based approach
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Open AccessTree regeneration characteristics in limestone forests of the Cat Ba National Park, Vietnam
The ability of overstory tree species to regenerate successfully is important for the preservation of tree species diversity and its associated flora and fauna. This study investigated forest regeneration dyna...
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From an ecological perspective, forestry interventions can be defined as disturbances actively implemented at different spatial scales with the aim of obtaining a variety of forest-based ecosystem services. By...
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Open AccessThree-dimensional quantification of tree architecture from mobile laser scanning and geometry analysis
Mobile laser scanning and geometrical analysis revealed relationships between tree geometry and seed dispersal mechanism, latitude of origin, as well as growth.
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Open AccessDistribution of the timber quality attribute ‘knot surface’ in logs of Fagus sylvatica L. from pure and mixed forest stands
Research on mixed forests has mostly focused on tree growth and productivity, or resistance and resilience in changing climate conditions, but only rarely on the effects of tree species mixing on timber qualit...
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Correction to: From facilitation to competition: the effect of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) on the growth performance of four poplar-hybrids (Populus spp.) in mixed short rotation coppice
Unfortunately, there is information missing in Fig. 3. This figure represents all 4 poplar genotypes and black locust, which are differentiated by the letters (a) to (e).
