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17 years of grassland management leads to parallel local and regional biodiversity shifts among a wide range of taxonomic groups

A model-based approach to studying changes in compositional heterogeneity

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A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests

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An intraspecific application of the leaf-height-seed ecology strategy scheme to forest herbs along a latitudinal gradient

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Avian nutritional condition increases with forest structural complexity

scientific article published in 2023

BIOFRAG - a new database for analyzing BIOdiversity responses to forest FRAGmentation.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Beyond plant-soil feedbacks: mechanisms driving plant community shifts due to land-use legacies in post-agricultural forests

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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context

scientific article

Biodiversity as insurance for sapling survival in experimental tree plantations

scientific article published in 2016

Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

scientific article

Can soil acidity and light help to explain tree species effects on forest herb layer performance in post-agricultural forests?

article by Arno Thomaes et al published 9 June 2013 in Plant and Soil

Changes in the nature of environmental limitation in two forest herbs during two decades of forest succession

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Clear-felling effects on colonization rates of shade-tolerant forest herbs into a post-agricultural forest adjacent to ancient forest

Climatic conditions, not above- and belowground resource availability and uptake capacity, mediate tree diversity effects on productivity and stability

scientific article published on 22 December 2021

Combining community resurvey data to advance global change research

scientific article published on 01 December 2016

Combining multiple investigative approaches to unravel functional responses to global change in the understorey of temperate forests

scientific article published on 9 December 2023

Complementary distribution patterns of arthropod detritivores (woodlice and millipedes) along forest edge-to-interior gradients

Complex patterns in tolerance and resistance to pests and diseases underpin the domestication of tomato

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality

scientific article

Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations

scientific article

Correction: Schelfhout, S.; et al. Tree Species Identity Shapes Earthworm Communities. Forests 2017, 8, 85

Declining potential nectar production of the herb layer in temperate forests under global change

scientific article published on 6 March 2024

Desiccation resistance determines distribution of woodlice along forest edge-to-interior gradients

Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats

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Disentangling dispersal from phylogeny in the colonization capacity of forest understorey plants

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Disentangling the effects of phosphorus, nitrogen and species identity on the vegetation reflectance spectrum

scientific article published in October 2022

Disentangling tree species identity and richness effects on the herb layer: first results from a German tree diversity experiment

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Distinguishing between turnover and nestedness in the quantification of biotic homogenization

Divergent roles of herbivory in eutrophying forests

Diverging effects of overstorey conversion scenarios on the understorey vegetation in a former coppice-with-standards forest

scientific article published in 2008

Diversifying forest communities may change Lyme disease risk: extra dimension to the dilution effect in Europe

scientific article

Do diverse overstoreys induce diverse understoreys? Lessons learnt from an experimental–observational platform in Finland

scholarly article by E. Ampoorter et al published April 2014 in Forest Ecology and Management

Does neighbourhood tree diversity affect the crown arthropod community in saplings?

Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales

scientific article published on 27 July 2015

Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests

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Early Trajectories of Spontaneous Vegetation Recovery after Intensive Agricultural Land Use

article published in 2010

Ecosystem multifunctionality lowers as grasslands under restoration approach their target habitat type

scientific article published on 27 February 2022

Ecosystem services of mixed species forest stands and monocultures: comparing practitioners' and scientists' perceptions with formal scientific knowledge

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Effects of Mineral Soil and Forest Floor on the Regeneration of Pedunculate Oak, Beech and Red Oak

article by Stefanie De Groote et al published 27 January 2018 in Forests

Enhancing Tree Performance Through Species Mixing: Review of a Quarter-Century of TreeDivNet Experiments Reveals Research Gaps and Practical Insights

scientific article published in 2024

Environmental limitation contributes to the differential colonization capacity of two forest herbs

Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny

scientific article

Evaluating plant lineage losses and gains in temperate forest understories: a phylogenetic perspective on climate change and nitrogen deposition

scientific article published in 2023

Experimental assessment of the survival and performance of forest herbs transplanted beyond their range limit

scientific article published in 2012

Flowering phenology and reproduction of a forest understorey plant species in response to the local environment

scientific article

For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!

scientific article

Forest edges reduce slug (but not snail) activity-density across Western Europe

scientific article published in July 2019

Forest floor leachate fluxes under six different tree species on a metal contaminated site

scientific article published in February 2013

Forest fragmentation modulates effects of tree species richness and composition on ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Forest herbs in the face of global change: a single-species-multiple-threats approach for Anemone nemorosa

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Forest herbs show species-specific responses to variation in light regime on sites with contrasting soil acidity: An experiment mimicking forest conversion scenarios

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Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Former land use affects the nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and biomass of forest herbs

scientific article published in 2010

Four decades of post-agricultural forest development have caused major redistributions of soil phosphorus fractions

scientific article published on 26 November 2011

Global environmental change effects on ecosystems: the importance of land-use legacies

scientific article

Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies.

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

scientific article

Habitat preferences of European NightjarsCaprimulgus europaeusin forests on sandy soils

article published in 2011

Herb layer changes (1954-2000) related to the conversion of coppice-with-standards forest and soil acidification

How tree species identity and diversity affect light transmittance to the understory in mature temperate forests

scientific article published on 11 November 2017

Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests

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Induced phenological avoidance: A neglected defense mechanism against seed predation in plants

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

Inferring plant functional diversity from space: the potential of Sentinel-2

scientific article published on 24 August 2019

Influence of canopy budget model approaches on atmospheric deposition estimates to forests

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Interregional variation in the floristic recovery of post-agricultural forests

scientific article published in 2010

Intraspecific variation in flowering phenology affects seed germinability in the forest herb Primula elatior

Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

scientific article

Leaf trait variation in grassland plant species in response to soil phosphorus

scientific article published in March 2024

Linking macrodetritivore distribution to desiccation resistance in small forest fragments embedded in agricultural landscapes in Europe

scientific article published in 2018

Local habitat and landscape affect Ixodes ricinus tick abundances in forests on poor, sandy soils

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Local neighbourhood effects on sapling growth in a young experimental forest

scientific article published in 2017

Long-term scenarios of the invasive black cherry in pine-oak forest: Impact of regeneration success

scientific article published in 2011

Low recruitment across life stages partly accounts for the slow colonization of forest herbs

scientific article published in 2009

Management driven changes (1967–2005) in soil acidity and the understorey plant community following conversion of a coppice-with-standards forest

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Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

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Mixing effects on litter decomposition rates in a young tree diversity experiment

scientific article published in 2016

Mixing of tree species is especially beneficial for biodiversity in fragmented landscapes, without compromising forest functioning

scientific article published on 03 September 2021

Nutrient input from hemiparasitic litter favors plant species with a fast-growth strategy

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Observer and relocation errors matter in resurveys of historical vegetation plots

Overstorey composition shapes across‐trophic level community relationships in deciduous forest regardless of fragmentation context

scientific article

P-removal for restoration of Nardus grasslands on former agricultural land: cutting traditions

scientific article published in 2017

Plant Biodiversity Change Across Scales During the Anthropocene

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Plasticity in response to phosphorus and light availability in four forest herbs

scientific article published on 19 March 2010

Prunus serotina unleashed: invader dominance after 70 years of forest development

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Quantifying establishment limitations during the ecological restoration of species-rich Nardus grassland

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ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

scientific article published in March 2024

Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe's temperate forest biome

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Response to Comment on "Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming"

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Response to Comment on "Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming"

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Responses of competitive understorey species to spatial environmental gradients inaccurately explain temporal changes

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Shrub clearing adversely affects the abundance of Ixodes ricinus ticks

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

Soil Legacies of Tree Species Composition in Mature Forest Affect Tree Seedlings’ Performance

scientific article published on 5 August 2024

Soil legacies of tree species richness in a young plantation do not modulate tree seedling response to watering regime

scientific article published on 2 December 2023

Soil phosphorus availability determines the contribution of small, individual grassland remnants to the conservation of landscape‐scale biodiversity

scientific article published on 31 May 2021

Soil properties and neighbouring forest cover affect above-ground biomass and functional composition during tropical forest restoration

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Spatio-temporal variation in seed predation by a native weevil in the invasive Prunus serotina

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Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Temporal changes in forest plant communities at different site types

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The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

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The abundance of Ixodes ricinus ticks depends on tree species composition and shrub cover

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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

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The effect of air pollution and other environmental stressors on leaf fluctuating asymmetry and specific leaf area of Salix alba L

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

The effect of forest structural complexity on tick-borne pathogens in questing ticks and small mammals

scientific article published in June 2024

The effects of hemiparasitic plant removal on community structure and seedling establishment in semi-natural grasslands

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The effects of local neighbourhood diversity on pest and disease damage of trees in a young experimental forest

scientific article published in 2014

The phosphorus legacy of former agricultural land use can affect the production of germinable seeds in forest herbs

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The seedling bank stabilizes the erratic early regeneration stages of the invasive Prunus serotina

article published in 2009

Thermal differences between juveniles and adults increased over time in European forest trees

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Throughfall deposition and canopy exchange processes along a vertical gradient within the canopy of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst).

scientific article published on 9 February 2012

Tree Species Identity Shapes Earthworm Communities

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Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought

scientific article published on 8 April 2024

Tree neighbourhood-scale variation in topsoil chemistry depends on species identity effects related to litter quality

scientific article published in 2022

Understorey removal effects on tree regeneration in temperate forests: A meta‐analysis

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Understorey vegetation shifts following the conversion of temperate deciduous forest to spruce plantation

scientific article published in 2013

Unexpected understorey community development after 30 years in ancient and post-agricultural forests

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Win some, lose some: Mesocosm communities maintain community productivity despite lower phosphorus availability because of increased species diversity

scientific article published in 2021

Zoonotic pathogens linked with hedgehog diphtheric disease

scientific article published on 21 October 2022