Paying the colonization credit: converging plant species richness in ancient and post-agricultural forests in NE Germany over five decades

Vegetation changes in boreo–nemoral forest stands depending on soil factors and past land use during an 80 year period of no human impact

(2016) Ilze Kokarēviča et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Initial site conditions and interactions between multiple drivers determine herb-layer changes over five decades in temperate forests

(2016) Tobias Naaf et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2016) Michael P. Perring et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant extinctions take time

(2016) Quentin Cronk   SCIENCE

Colonization credit of post-agricultural forest patches in NE Germany remains 130–230years after reforestation

(2015) Tobias Naaf et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Herb layer extinction debt in highly fragmented temperate forests – Completely paid after 160 years?

(2015) Jens Kolk et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2015) Markus Bernhardt-Römermann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant species richness of very small forests related to patch configuration, quality, heterogeneity and history

(2014) Monika Wulf et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Searching for ancient forests: A 2000 year history of land use in northeastern French forests deduced from the pollen compositions of closed depressions

(2013) David Etienne et al.   HOLOCENE

Diverging effects of two contrasting tree species on soil and herb layer development in a chronosequence of post-agricultural forest

(2012) Arno Thomaes et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Life-history traits explain rapid colonization of young post-agricultural forests by understory herbs

(2012) Jörg Brunet et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

(2012) Stefan Dullinger et al.   Nature Climate Change

Understory succession in post-agricultural oak forests: Habitat fragmentation affects forest specialists and generalists differently

(2011) Jörg Brunet et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2011) Kris Verheyen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2011) An De Schrijver et al.   OECOLOGIA

Tree diversity and environmental context predict herb species richness and cover in Germany's largest connected deciduous forest

(2011) Elke A. Vockenhuber et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

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

(2010) Lander Baeten et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A GIS-based method for the reconstruction of the late eighteenth century forest vegetation in the Prignitz region (NE Germany)

(2010) Monika Wulf et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Lander Baeten et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Paying the Extinction Debt in Southern Wisconsin Forest Understories

(2009) DAVID A. ROGERS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The impact of former agriculture on habitat conditions and distribution patterns of ancient woodland plant species in recent black alder (Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn.) woods in south-western Poland

(2009) Anna Orczewska   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Taxonomic homogenization of woodland plant communities over 70 years

(2009) S. A. Keith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The prehistoric and preindustrial deforestation of Europe

(2009) Jed O. Kaplan et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Balancing biodiversity in a changing environment: extinction debt, immigration credit and species turnover

(2009) Stephen T. Jackson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Land-use history affects understorey plant species distributions in a large temperate-forest complex, Denmark

(2008) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY