The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis

Ecology versus society: Impacts of bark beetle infestations on biodiversity and restorativeness in protected areas of Central Europe

(2021) Mareike Kortmann et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire

(2021) Luke Collins et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: A history, synthesis, and outlook

(2021) Gavin M. Jones et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Quantifying pyrodiversity and its drivers

(2021) Zachary L. Steel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Forest disturbance and salvage logging have neutral long-term effects on drinking water quality but alter biodiversity

(2021) Kostadin B. Georgiev et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Windthrows promote higher diversity of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera: Passalidae) in a Central Amazon forest

(2021) Janderson Batista Rodrigues Alencar et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

(2021) Sebastian Seibold et al.   NATURE

Are fire refugia less predictable due to climate change?

(2021) Brendan Mackey et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Initial response of understorey vegetation and tree regeneration to a mixed‐severity fire in old‐growth Araucaria–Nothofagus forests

(2020) Andres Fuentes‐Ramirez et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Why do several small patches hold more species than few large patches?

(2020) Lenore Fahrig   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Salvage logging changes the taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional successional trajectories of forest bird communities

(2020) Kostadin B. Georgiev et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages

(2020) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

New spatial analyses of Australian wildfires highlight the need for new fire, resource, and conservation policies

(2020) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantifying natural disturbances using a large‐scale dendrochronological reconstruction to guide forest management

(2020) Vojtěch Čada et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The response of canopy height diversity to natural disturbances in two temperate forest landscapes

(2020) Cornelius Senf et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Disturbance intensity, disturbance extent and ocean climate modulate kelp forest understory communities

(2020) T Wernberg et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity

(2020) Simon Thorn et al.   Nature Communications

Bark beetle outbreak enhances biodiversity and foraging habitat of native bees in alpine landscapes of the southern Rocky Mountains

(2020) Thomas Seth Davis et al.   Scientific Reports

Forest fire induces short‐term shifts in soil food webs with consequences for carbon cycling

(2020) Konstantin B. Gongalsky et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Successional dynamics of the bee community in a tropical dry forest: Insights from taxonomy and functional ecology

(2019) Melbi A. Ramos-Fabiel et al.   BIOTROPICA

Moderate fire severity is best for the diversity of most of the pollinator guilds in Mediterranean pine forests

(2019) Maria Lazarina et al.   ECOLOGY

Are reptile responses to fire shaped by forest type and vegetation structure? Insights from the Mediterranean basin

(2019) Brahim Chergui et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A global synthesis of fire effects on pollinators

(2019) Lucas M. Carbone et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Are Wildfires a Threat to Fungi in European Pinus Forests? A Case Study of Boreal and Mediterranean Forests

(2019) Iván Franco-Manchón et al.   Forests

Does burn severity affect plant community diversity and composition in mixed conifer forests of the United States Intermountain West one decade post fire?

(2019) Eva K. Strand et al.   Fire Ecology

Proportional mixture of two rarefaction/extrapolation curves to forecast biodiversity changes under landscape transformation

(2019) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How do plant communities differ between fire refugia and fire‐generated early‐seral vegetation?

(2019) William M. Downing et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

ENSO-related droughts and ISM variations during the last millennium in tropical southwest China

(2019) Yansheng Gu et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Response of bark beetles and woodborers to tornado damage and subsequent salvage logging in northern coniferous forests of Maine, USA

(2019) Kevin J. Dodds et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest wildfire and 12 years of post-disturbance succession of saprotrophic macrofungi (Basidiomycota, Ascomycota)

(2019) Kauko Salo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The species diversity × fire severity relationship is hump‐shaped in semiarid yellow pine and mixed conifer forests

(2019) Clark Richter et al.   Ecosphere

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

(2019) Simon Thorn et al.   ECOLOGY

Key perspectives on early successional forests subject to stand-replacing disturbances

(2019) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The effects of wildfire severity and pyrodiversity on bat occupancy and diversity in fire-suppressed forests

(2019) Z. L. Steel et al.   Scientific Reports

Salvage logging effects on regulating and supporting ecosystem services — a systematic map

(2018) Alexandro B. Leverkus et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Logging and fire regimes alter plant communities

(2018) Elle J. Bowd et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Severity of forest wildfire had a major influence on early successional ectomycorrhizal macrofungi assemblages, including edible mushrooms

(2018) Kauko Salo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Evidence of a trait-specific response to burning in springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) in the boreal forests of European Russia

(2018) Ruslan A. Saifutdinov et al.   GEODERMA

Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

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

From unburnt to salvage logged: Quantifying bird responses to different levels of disturbance severity

(2018) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

(2018) James E. M. Watson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Salvage logging in the world's forests: Interactions between natural disturbance and logging need recognition

(2018) Alexandro B. Leverkus et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Generalized fire response strategies in plants and animals

(2018) Juli G. Pausas   OIKOS

Towards better mapping of forest management patterns: A global allocation approach

(2018) Katharina Schulze et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Does fire disturbance affect ant community structure? Insights from spatial co-occurrence networks

(2018) Julia Tavella et al.   OECOLOGIA

Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome

(2018) Andreas Sommerfeld et al.   Nature Communications

The succession of soil Collembola communities in spruce forests of the High Tatra Mountains five years after a windthrow and clear–cut logging

(2018) Peter Čuchta et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The natural disturbance regime in forests of the Dinaric Mountains: A synthesis of evidence

(2017) Thomas A. Nagel et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Impact of windthrow and salvage-logging on taxonomic and functional diversity of forest arthropods

(2017) Beat Wermelinger et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Localized Effects of Tornado Damage on Ground Beetle Communities and Vegetation in a Forested Preserve

(2017) Nicholas A. Barber et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Forest disturbances under climate change

(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Bee response to fire regimes in Mediterranean pine forests: The role of nesting preference, trophic specialization, and body size

(2016) Maria Lazarina et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

The effect of fire history in shaping diversity patterns of flower-visiting insects in post-fire Mediterranean pine forests

(2016) Maria Lazarina et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Response of bird assemblages to windstorm and salvage logging — Insights from analyses of functional guild and indicator species

(2016) Simon Thorn et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Long-term effect of wildfires on temperate Pinus sylvestris forests: Vegetation dynamics and ecosystem resilience

(2016) Martin Adámek et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Pyrodiversity begets plant-pollinator community diversity

(2016) Lauren C. Ponisio et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Smoothing Parameter and Model Selection for General Smooth Models

(2016) Simon N. Wood et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION

The effect of treefall gaps on the understorey structure and composition of the tropical dry forest of Nizanda, Oaxaca, Mexico: implications for forest regeneration

(2016) Yanus A. Dechnik-Vázquez et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Diversity patterns of wild bees and wasps in managed boreal forests: Effects of spatial structure, local habitat and surrounding landscape

(2015) Diana Rubene et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2015) Dominik Thom et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

How pervasive is biotic homogenization in human-modified tropical forest landscapes?

(2015) Ricardo Ribeiro de Castro Solar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Guild-specific responses of forest Lepidoptera highlight conservation-oriented forest management – Implications from conifer-dominated forests

(2015) Simon Thorn et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Diversity–disturbance relationship in forest landscapes

(2015) Daniel Yeboah et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Bark Beetles Increase Biodiversity While Maintaining Drinking Water Quality

(2015) Burkhard Beudert et al.   Conservation Letters

Wildfire disturbance and productivity as drivers of plant species diversity across spatial scales

(2015) Laura A. Burkle et al.   Ecosphere

Conducting Meta-Analyses inRwith themetaforPackage

(2015) Wolfgang Viechtbauer   Journal of Statistical Software

Connectivity of litter islands remaining after a fire and unburnt forest determines the recovery of soil fauna

(2014) Andrey S. Zaitsev et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

A succession of theories: purging redundancy from disturbance theory

(2014) Stephanie A. Pulsford et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

(2014) Anke Stein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ten years of vegetation assembly after a North American mega fire

(2014) Scott R. Abella et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

(2013) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Stand-replacing wildfires alter the community structure of wood-inhabiting fungi in southwestern ponderosa pine forests of the USA

(2013) Valerie J. Kurth et al.   Fungal Ecology

Temporal changes in the breeding bird community caused by post-fire treatments after the Samcheok forest fire in Korea

(2013) Chang-Yong Choi et al.   Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Responses of insect pollinators and understory plants to silviculture in northern hardwood forests

(2012) Eleanor Proctor et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Local forest structure, climate and human disturbance determine regional distribution of boreal bird species richness in Alberta, Canada

(2012) Jian Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis should be abandoned

(2012) Jeremy W. Fox   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Bryophyte species richness and composition in young forests regenerated after clear-cut logging versus after wildfire and spruce budworm outbreak

(2011) Martin Schmalholz et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

On the meta-analysis of response ratios for studies with correlated and multi-group designs

(2011) Marc J. Lajeunesse   ECOLOGY

The response of land snail assemblages below aspens to forest fire and clear-cutting in Fennoscandian boreal forests

(2011) Kristoffer Hylander   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Multiple successional pathways and precocity in forest development: can some forests be born complex?

(2011) Daniel C. Donato et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

(2011) J. M. Chase et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological importance of intermediate windstorms rivals large, infrequent disturbances in the northern Great Lakes

(2011) Kirk M. Stueve et al.   Ecosphere

Flawed Meta-Analysis of Biodiversity Effects of Forest Management

(2010) PANU HALME et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Fire-induced taxonomic and functional changes in saproxylic beetle communities in fire sensitive regions

(2010) Marco Moretti et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

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

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

(2010) Alain Paquette et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis applies to tropical forests, but disturbance contributes little to tree diversity

(2009) Frans Bongers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage

(2009) Jon E. Keeley   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Combining plant and animal traits to assess community functional responses to disturbance

(2008) Marco Moretti et al.   ECOGRAPHY

THINNING AND BURNING RESULT IN LOW-LEVEL INVASION BY NONNATIVE PLANTS BUT NEUTRAL EFFECTS ON NATIVES

(2008) Cara R. Nelson et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Catastrophic windstorm and fuel-reduction treatments alter ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in a North American sub-boreal forest

(2008) Kamal J.K. Gandhi et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Taxonomical vs. functional responses of bee communities to fire in two contrasting climatic regions

(2008) Marco Moretti et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The effects of wildfire on ground-active spiders in deciduous forests on the Swiss southern slope of the Alps

(2002) Marco Moretti et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY