The ecological impact of pest-induced tree dieback on insect biodiversity in Yunnan pine plantations, China

Contrasting responses of habitat conditions and insect biodiversity to pest- or climate-induced dieback in coniferous mountain forests

(2020) Jérémy Cours et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Difference in the net value of ecological services between natural and artificial forests in China

(2019) Shixiong Cao et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The devil is in the detail: Metabarcoding of arthropods provides a sensitive measure of biodiversity response to forest stand composition compared with surrogate measures of biodiversity

(2019) N. Barsoum et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Measuring continuous compositional change using decline and decay in zeta diversity

(2019) Melodie A. Mcgeoch et al.   ECOLOGY

Prospects and challenges of implementing DNA metabarcoding for high-throughput insect surveillance

(2019) Alexander M Piper et al.   GigaScience

The biodiversity benefit of native forests and mixed‐species plantations over monoculture plantations

(2019) Xiaoyang Wang et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Similar compositional turnover but distinct insular environmental and geographical drivers of native and exotic ants in two oceans

(2019) Guillaume Latombe et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Rare species, functional groups, and evolutionary lineages drive successional trajectories in disturbed forests

(2019) Simon Thorn et al.   ECOLOGY

Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) growth and defense in response to mountain pine beetle outbreaks

(2019) Nickolas E. Kichas et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

MIDORI server: a webserver for taxonomic assignment of unknown metazoan mitochondrial-encoded sequences using a curated database

(2018) Matthieu Leray et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Tree plantations displacing native forests: The nature and drivers of apparent forest recovery on former croplands in Southwestern China from 2000 to 2015

(2018) Fangyuan Hua et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Experiments with dead wood reveal the importance of dead branches in the canopy for saproxylic beetle conservation

(2018) Sebastian Seibold et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

(2018) Torben Hilmers et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Using DNA metabarcoding for simultaneous inference of common vampire bat diet and population structure

(2018) Kristine Bohmann et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Adapting metabarcoding-based benthic biomonitoring into routine marine ecological status assessment networks

(2018) Eva Aylagas et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Deadwood enrichment combining integrative and segregative conservation elements enhances biodiversity of multiple taxa in managed forests

(2018) Inken Doerfler et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2018) Lander Baeten et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Body size determines soil community assembly in a tropical forest

(2018) Lucie Zinger et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

(2018) María R. Felipe-Lucia et al.   Nature Communications

Predicting the Ecological Quality Status of Marine Environments from eDNA Metabarcoding Data Using Supervised Machine Learning

(2017) Tristan Cordier et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: A meta-analysis

(2017) Simon Thorn et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The impact of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on regional biodiversity of multiple taxa in European beech forests

(2017) Peter Schall et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Algorithm for post-clustering curation of DNA amplicon data yields reliable biodiversity estimates

(2017) Tobias Guldberg Frøslev et al.   Nature Communications

Forest disturbances under climate change

(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Sorting things out: Assessing effects of unequal specimen biomass on DNA metabarcoding

(2017) Vasco Elbrecht et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

(2017) Alex Bush et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Dead-wood addition promotes non-saproxylic epigeal arthropods but effects are mediated by canopy openness

(2016) Sebastian Seibold et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Microclimate and habitat heterogeneity as the major drivers of beetle diversity in dead wood

(2016) Sebastian Seibold et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant diversity accurately predicts insect diversity in two tropical landscapes

(2016) Kai Zhang et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Spatial variability in tree regeneration after wildfire delays and dampens future bark beetle outbreaks

(2016) Rupert Seidl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water-deficit and fungal infection can differentially affect the production of different classes of defense compounds in two host pines of mountain pine beetle

(2016) Nadir Erbilgin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Opportunities for biodiversity gains under the world’s largest reforestation programme

(2016) Fangyuan Hua et al.   Nature Communications

Benthic monitoring of salmon farms in Norway using foraminiferal metabarcoding

(2016) J Pawlowski et al.   Aquaculture Environment Interactions

boral - Bayesian Ordination and Regression Analysis of Multivariate Abundance Data in r

(2016) Francis K.C. Hui   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

iNEXT: an R package for rarefaction and extrapolation of species diversity (Hill numbers)

(2016) T. C. Hsieh et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Effects of conservation policy on Chinas forest recovery

(2016) A. Vina et al.   Science Advances

Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests

(2015) Dominik Thom et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Intraspecific and interspecific attraction of three Tomicus beetle species during the shoot-feeding phase

(2015) J. Wang et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Effectiveness of China's National Forest Protection Program and nature reserves

(2015) Guopeng Ren et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Tag jumps illuminated - reducing sequence-to-sample misidentifications in metabarcoding studies

(2015) Ida Baerholm Schnell et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Insight into biases and sequencing errors for amplicon sequencing with the Illumina MiSeq platform

(2015) Melanie Schirmer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Mapping Robinia Pseudoacacia Forest Health Conditions by Using Combined Spectral, Spatial, and Textural Information Extracted from IKONOS Imagery and Random Forest Classifier

(2015) Hong Wang et al.   Remote Sensing

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

(2015) Craig D. Allen et al.   Ecosphere

From Benchtop to Desktop: Important Considerations when Designing Amplicon Sequencing Workflows

(2015) Dáithí C. Murray et al.   PLoS One

High-throughput sequencing and morphology perform equally well for benthic monitoring of marine ecosystems

(2015) Franck Lejzerowicz et al.   Scientific Reports

Zeta Diversity as a Concept and Metric That Unifies Incidence-Based Biodiversity Patterns

(2014) Cang Hui et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Selective-logging and oil palm: multitaxon impacts, biodiversity indicators, and trade-offs for conservation planning

(2014) David P. Edwards et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Using metabarcoding to ask if easily collected soil and leaf-litter samples can be used as a general biodiversity indicator

(2014) Chenxue Yang et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Origin and Expansion of the Yunnan Shoot Borer, Tomicus yunnanensis (Coleoptera: Scolytinae): A Mixture of Historical Natural Expansion and Contemporary Human-Mediated Relocation

(2014) Jun Lü et al.   PLoS One

In search of the best local habitat drivers for saproxylic beetle diversity in temperate deciduous forests

(2013) C. Bouget et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

BayesHammer: Bayesian clustering for error correction in single-cell sequencing

(2013) Sergey I Nikolenko et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding

(2013) Yinqiu Ji et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of salvage logging and sanitation felling on bark beetle (Ips typographus L.) infestations

(2013) Golo Stadelmann et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents

(2013) Matthieu Leray et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Contrasting Diversity Values: Statistical Inferences Based on Overlapping Confidence Intervals

(2013) Ian MacGregor-Fors et al.   PLoS One

Increasing tree cover while losing diverse natural forests in tropical Hainan, China

(2013) De-Li Zhai et al.   Regional Environmental Change

PANDAseq: paired-end assembler for illumina sequences

(2012) Andre P Masella et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Role of eucalypt and other planted forests in biodiversity conservation and the provision of biodiversity-related ecosystem services

(2012) Eckehard G. Brockerhoff et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring

(2012) Douglas W. Yu et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

mvabund- anRpackage for model-based analysis of multivariate abundance data

(2012) Yi Wang et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Climate change could alter the distribution of mountain pine beetle outbreaks in western Canada

(2011) Kishan R. Sambaraju et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Mountain pine beetle host-range expansion threatens the boreal forest

(2011) CATHERINE I. CULLINGHAM et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Learning from a “benign neglect strategy” in a national park: Response of saproxylic beetles to dead wood accumulation

(2010) Jörg Müller et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects

(2010) Barbara J. Bentz et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The forgotten stage of forest succession: early-successional ecosystems on forest sites

(2010) Mark E Swanson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Assessing China’s Ecological Restoration Programs: What’s Been Done and What Remains to Be Done?

(2009) Runsheng Yin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Forest canopy cover and canopy closure: comparison of assessment techniques

(2009) Alessandro Paletto et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Deadwood and saproxylic beetle diversity in naturally disturbed and managed spruce forests in Nova Scotia

(2009) Christopher Majka et al.   ZooKeys

The European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus in a national park: from pest to keystone species

(2008) Jörg Müller et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Determination of the compositional change (1999–2006) in the pine forests of British Columbia due to mountain pine beetle infestation

(2008) Colin Robertson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Effect of management on the spatial spread of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) in Banff National Park

(2008) M. Kurtis Trzcinski et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services

(2008) J. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA