Forest gaps increase true bug diversity by recruiting open land species

Insect decline in forests depends on species’ traits and may be mitigated by management

(2023) Michael Staab et al.   Communications Biology

Regional variation in deadwood decay of 13 tree species: Effects of climate, soil and forest structure

(2023) Pascal Edelmann et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Beetle diversity is higher in sunny forests due to higher microclimatic heterogeneity in deadwood

(2022) Ludwig Lettenmaier et al.   OECOLOGIA

Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment

(2022) Michael Staab et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Hierarchical trait filtering at different spatial scales determines beetle assemblages in deadwood

(2022) Felix Neff et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Plant diversity and functional identity alter ant occurrence and activity in experimental grasslands

(2022) Rafael Achury et al.   Ecosphere

Wild bees benefit from structural complexity enhancement in a forest restoration experiment

(2021) Tristan Eckerter et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Connectivity and succession of open structures as a key to sustaining light‐demanding biodiversity in deciduous forests

(2021) Petr Kozel et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Shed light in the dark – How do natural canopy gaps influence temperate bat diversity and activity?

(2021) Maude Erasmy et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

(2021) Lourens Poorter et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid colonization and turnover of birds in a tropical forest treefall gap

(2020) Henry S. Pollock et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Effects of forest management on herbivorous insects in temperate Europe

(2019) Jan Leidinger et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Modeling the distances traveled by flying insects based on the combination of flight mill and mark-release-recapture experiments

(2019) Christelle Robinet et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Scaling of thermal tolerance with body mass and genome size in ectotherms: a comparison between water- and air-breathers

(2019) Félix P. Leiva et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Optimizing sampling of flying insects using a modified window trap

(2019) Anna K. Knuff et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

(2019) Sebastian Seibold et al.   NATURE

Relations between forest management, stand structure and productivity across different types of Central European forests

(2018) Peter Schall et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Disperse or die: Colonisation of transient open habitats in production forests is only weakly dispersal-limited in butterflies

(2018) Mari-Liis Viljur et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Using metabolic and thermal ecology to predict temperature dependent ecosystem activity: a test with prairie ants

(2018) Rebecca M. Prather et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Canopy gap dynamics and tree understory release in a virgin beech forest, Slovakian Carpathians

(2018) Eike Feldmann et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

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

LiDAR-derived canopy structure supports the more-individuals hypothesis for arthropod diversity in temperate forests

(2018) Jörg Müller et al.   OIKOS

Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features

(2018) Caterina Penone et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Multitrait successional forest dynamics enable diverse competitive coexistence

(2017) Daniel S. Falster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Positive effects of ecological restoration on rare and threatened flat bugs (Heteroptera: Aradidae)

(2015) Ruaridh Hägglund et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

A summary of eight traits of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Araneae, occurring in grasslands in Germany

(2015) Martin M Gossner et al.   Scientific Data

Light intensity affects spatial distribution of Heteroptera in deciduous forests

(2014) Martin M. GOSSNER   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Wood resource and not fungi attract early-successional saproxylic species ofHeteroptera -an experimental approach

(2014) Sebastian Seibold et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Effects of gaps on regeneration of woody plants: a meta-analysis

(2014) Jiaojun Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

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

(2013) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Effect of dead wood enrichment in the canopy and on the forest floor on beetle guild composition

(2013) Martin M. Gossner et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Do forest-dwelling plant species disperse along landscape corridors?

(2013) Jaan Liira et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Forest Canopy Gap Distributions in the Southern Peruvian Amazon

(2013) Gregory P. Asner et al.   PLoS One

Coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation: standardizing samples by completeness rather than size

(2012) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGY

Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

(2010) Markus Fischer et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

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

Improving indicator species analysis by combining groups of sites

(2010) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   OIKOS

Tree diversity drives abundance and spatiotemporal β-diversity of true bugs (Heteroptera)

(2009) STEPHANIE SOBEK et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference

(2009) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   ECOLOGY

Canopy gaps in an old-growth fir-beech forest remnant of Western Carpathians

(2009) Stanislav Kucbel et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH