Metabarcoding reveals that mixed forests mitigate negative effects of non‐native trees on canopy arthropod diversity

Forest gaps increase true bug diversity by recruiting open land species

(2023) Rafael Achury et al.   OECOLOGIA

What does literature tell us about the relationship between forest structural attributes and species richness in temperate forests? – A review

(2023) Laura Zeller et al.   Ecological Indicators

Tree species identity, canopy structure and prey availability differentially affect canopy spider diversity and trophic composition

(2023) Benjamin Wildermuth et al.   OECOLOGIA

Do admixed conifers change soil nutrient conditions of European beech stands?

(2023) Estela Covre Foltran et al.   Soil Research

The role of species interactions for forest resilience to drought

(2022) S. Haberstroh et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions

(2022) Yuhao Feng et al.   SCIENCE

Climate‐driven divergent long‐term trends of forest beetles in Japan

(2022) Maldwyn J. Evans et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diversity and Functional Relevance of Canopy Arthropods in Central Europe

(2022) Andreas Floren et al.   Diversity-Basel

Tree mixtures mediate negative effects of introduced tree species on bird taxonomic and functional diversity

(2022) Andreas Schuldt et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Monoculture and mixture-planting of non-native Douglas fir alters species composition, but promotes the diversity of ground beetles in a temperate forest system

(2021) Peter Kriegel et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

From mixtures to monocultures: Bird assemblage responses along a production forest conifer-broadleaf gradient

(2021) Adam Felton et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Non-native Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) promotes sentinel prey attack rates in Central European forests

(2021) Dragan Matevski et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2021) Christian Messier et al.   Conservation Letters

The conservation value of Aculeata communities in sand quarries changes during ecological succession

(2021) Lucyna Twerd et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

A spatially explicit index for tree species or trait diversity at neighborhood and stand level

(2021) Jonas Glatthorn   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Non-native Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) in Central Europe: Ecology, performance and nature conservation

(2021) Frank M. Thomas et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Shifting tree species composition affects biodiversity of multiple taxa in Central European forests

(2021) Jan Leidinger et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest fight

(2021) Gabriel Popkin   SCIENCE

DNA metabarcoding captures subtle differences in forest beetle communities following disturbance

(2020) Mingxin Liu et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Do non‐native plants contribute to insect declines?

(2020) Douglas W. Tallamy et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

Tree species richness, tree identity and non-native tree proportion affect arboreal spider diversity, abundance and biomass

(2020) Dragan Matevski et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems

(2019) Andreas Schuldt et al.   Nature Communications

Effects of forest management on herbivorous insects in temperate Europe

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

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

Optimizing sampling of flying insects using a modified window trap

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

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

(2019) Xiaoyang Wang et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Preventing European forest diebacks

(2019) Simon Thorn et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2019) Sebastian Seibold et al.   NATURE

Tree diversity is key for promoting the diversity and abundance of forest‐associated taxa in Europe

(2019) Evy Ampoorter et al.   OIKOS

Modernisation of the Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of western North America

(2018) S. B. Archibald et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Tree related microhabitats in temperate and Mediterranean European forests: A hierarchical typology for inventory standardization

(2018) Laurent Larrieu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Impacts of climate change, weather extremes and alternative strategies in managed forests

(2018) Narayanan Subramanian et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Saproxylic Diptera assemblages in a temperate deciduous forest: implications for community assembly

(2018) Julia J. Mlynarek et al.   PeerJ

Investigating the biodiversity of the forest strata: The importance of vertical stratification to the activity and development of saproxylic beetles in managed temperate deciduous forests

(2017) Radosław Plewa et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Arthropod Diversity and Functional Importance in Old-Growth Forests of North America

(2017) Timothy Schowalter   Forests

Tree Diversity Drives Forest Stand Resistance to Natural Disturbances

(2017) Hervé Jactel et al.   Current Forestry Reports

Improved productivity and modified tree morphology of mixed versus pure stands of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) with increasing precipitation and age

(2016) Eric A. Thurm et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Can mixed stands of native and non-native tree species enhance diversity of epigaeic arthropods in plantation forests?

(2016) Anne Oxbrough et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Canopy closure determines arthropod assemblages in microhabitats created by windstorms and salvage logging

(2016) Simon Thorn et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Interacting effects of forest stratum, edge and tree diversity on beetles

(2016) Claudia Normann et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

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

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

(2016) J. Liang et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

(2016) Torbjørn Rognes et al.   PeerJ

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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

Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

(2015) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

DNA barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation

(2015) W. John Kress et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Declining resilience of ecosystem functions under biodiversity loss

(2015) Tom H. Oliver et al.   Nature Communications

Non-native tree species (Pseudotsuga menziesii) strongly decreases predator biomass and abundance in mixed-species plantations of a tree diversity experiment

(2014) Andreas Schuldt et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Explaining the variation in impacts of non-native plants on local-scale species richness: the role of phylogenetic relatedness

(2014) Montserrat Vilà et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Insects as drivers of ecosystem processes

(2014) Louie H Yang et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Plant origin asymmetrically impacts feeding guilds and life stages driving community structure of herbivorous arthropods

(2013) Karin T. Burghardt et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

(2013) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding

(2013) Yinqiu Ji et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Arthropod Communities on Native and Nonnative Early Successional Plants

(2013) Meg Ballard et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ecological consequences of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) cultivation in Europe

(2013) Max Schmid et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

The effects of edge-interior and understorey-canopy gradients on the distribution of saproxylic beetles in a temperate lowland forest

(2013) Š. Vodka et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Ground-dwelling spider (Araneae) and carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) community assemblages in mixed and monoculture stands of oak (Quercus robur L./Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.)

(2013) N. Barsoum 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

Redesign of PCR primers for mitochondrial cytochromecoxidase subunit I for marine invertebrates and application in all-taxa biotic surveys

(2013) J. Geller et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A DNA-Based Registry for All Animal Species: The Barcode Index Number (BIN) System

(2013) Sujeevan Ratnasingham et al.   PLoS One

Can mixed species stands enhance arthropod diversity in plantation forests?

(2012) Anne Oxbrough et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The relationship between available area efficiency and area exploitation index in an even-aged coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) stand

(2012) M. Gspaltl et al.   FORESTRY

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

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

Urban biodiversity: comparison of insect assemblages on native and non-native trees

(2012) Alvin J. Helden et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phytophagy on phylogenetically isolated trees: why hosts should escape their relatives

(2011) Benjamin Yguel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Conservation of Insect Diversity: a Habitat Approach

(2010) Jennifer B. Hughes et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Arthropod species richness in the Norway Spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) canopy along an elevation gradient

(2010) Juliane Röder et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Replacing coniferous monocultures with mixed-species production stands: An assessment of the potential benefits for forest biodiversity in northern Europe

(2010) Adam Felton et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Non-native plants reduce abundance, richness, and host specialization in lepidopteran communities

(2010) Karin T. Burghardt et al.   Ecosphere

Native Fauna on Exotic Trees: Phylogenetic Conservatism and Geographic Contingency in Two Lineages of Phytophages on Two Lineages of Trees

(2009) Martin M. Goßner et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Arthropods as bioindicators of sustainable forest management, with a focus on plantation forests

(2009) M. Abdul Maleque et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

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

(2009) STEPHANIE SOBEK et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

DNA barcode accumulation curves for understudied taxa and areas

(2009) M. ALEX SMITH et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models

(2008) Torsten Hothorn et al.   BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL

Influence of environmental parameters on small-scale distribution of soil-dwelling spiders in forests: What makes the difference, tree species or microhabitat?

(2008) Tim Mark Ziesche et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The effect of the tree species ratio of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) on polyphagous and monophagous pest species – Lymantria monacha L. and Calliteara pudibunda L. (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) as an example

(2007) Julian Heiermann et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT