Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity

Simulating functional diversity of European natural forests along climatic gradients

(2020) Kirsten Thonicke et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate and plant community diversity in space and time

(2020) Susan Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change

(2020) Christopher H. Trisos et al.   NATURE

Predicting Tree-Related Microhabitats by Multisensor Close-Range Remote Sensing Structural Parameters for the Selection of Retention Elements

(2020) Julian Frey et al.   Remote Sensing

Towards mapping the diversity of canopy structure from space with GEDI

(2020) Fabian D. Schneider et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

(2020) Cornelius Senf et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Community and structural constraints on the complexity of eastern North American forests

(2020) Christopher M. Gough et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Mapping the forest disturbance regimes of Europe

(2020) Cornelius Senf et al.   Nature Sustainability

Bioclimatic modeling of potential vegetation types as an alternative to species distribution models for projecting plant species shifts under changing climates

(2020) Robert E. Keane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A unified framework for land cover monitoring based on a discrete global sampling grid (GSG)

(2019) Lutz Fehrmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Assessing Understory Complexity in Beech-dominated Forests (Fagus sylvatica L.) in Central Europe—From Managed to Primary Forests

(2019) Katharina Willim et al.   SENSORS

The global tree restoration potential

(2019) Jean-Francois Bastin et al.   SCIENCE

Need for a global map of forest naturalness for a sustainable future

(2019) Alessandro Chiarucci et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

High rates of primary production in structurally complex forests

(2019) Christopher M. Gough et al.   ECOLOGY

From tree to stand-level structural complexity — Which properties make a forest stand complex?

(2019) Dominik Seidel et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Mixed-species tree plantings enhance structural complexity in oil palm plantations

(2019) Delphine Clara Zemp et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Monitoring forest structure to guide adaptive management of forest restoration: a review of remote sensing approaches

(2019) Nicolò Camarretta et al.   NEW FORESTS

Impacts of climatic and edaphic factors on the diversity, structure and biomass of species-poor and structurally-complex forests

(2019) Arshad Ali et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Tree height explains mortality risk during an intense drought

(2019) Atticus E. L. Stovall et al.   Nature Communications

Forest structure in space and time: Biotic and abiotic determinants of canopy complexity and their effects on net primary productivity

(2018) Alex T. Fotis et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

A sensible climate solution for the boreal forest

(2018) Rasmus Astrup et al.   Nature Climate Change

Forest Canopy Structural Complexity and Light Absorption Relationships at the Subcontinental Scale

(2018) J. W. Atkins et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Key ecological research questions for Central European forests

(2018) Christian Ammer et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2018) Caterina Penone et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of structural heterogeneity on the diurnal temperature range in temperate forest ecosystems

(2018) Martin Ehbrecht et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Canopy space filling rather than conventional measures of structural diversity explains productivity of beech stands

(2017) Julia Juchheim et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Airborne laser-guided imaging spectroscopy to map forest trait diversity and guide conservation

(2017) G. P. Asner et al.   SCIENCE

Mapping functional diversity from remotely sensed morphological and physiological forest traits

(2017) Fabian D. Schneider et al.   Nature Communications

Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks

(2017) Delphine Clara Zemp et al.   Nature Communications

Forest disturbances under climate change

(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013

(2017) Peter Potapov et al.   Science Advances

SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

(2017) Tomislav Hengl et al.   PLoS One

Effective number of layers: A new measure for quantifying three-dimensional stand structure based on sampling with terrestrial LiDAR

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

Revising the biome concept for understanding and predicting global change impacts

(2016) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Water availability predicts forest canopy height at the global scale

(2015) Tamir Klein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Crown plasticity enables trees to optimize canopy packing in mixed-species forests

(2015) Tommaso Jucker et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Species richness promotes canopy packing: a promising step towards a better understanding of the mechanisms driving the diversity effects on forest functioning

(2015) Xavier Morin   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

How adaptable is the hydraulic system of European beech in the face of climate change-related precipitation reduction?

(2015) Bernhard Schuldt et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Boreal forest health and global change

(2015) S. Gauthier et al.   SCIENCE

Tropical tree diversity enhances light capture through crown plasticity and spatial and temporal niche differences

(2014) Jurgis Sapijanskas et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Anke Stein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Advances in animal ecology from 3D-LiDAR ecosystem mapping

(2014) Andrew B. Davies et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment

(2012) Scott C. Stark et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The use of terrestrial LiDAR technology in forest science: application fields, benefits and challenges

(2011) Mathieu Dassot et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients

(2011) James C. Stegen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics