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Adjustment of hydraulic, anatomical and leaf traits in Fagus sylvatica (L.) towards drier conditions. A study in mature stands.
(2022-08-24)Hydraulic traits are closely linked to the ability of tree species to survive droughts and were therefore used to predict the disposition of trees to suffer from hydraulic failure in the face of climate change. While most ... -
Ant diversity, function and services across tropical land-use systems in Indonesia
(2016-05-18)Land-use change due to agricultural expansion is one of the greatest global threats to biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions and services. In the tropics in particular, conversion of forest and agroforests into ... -
Arable plant diversity in conventionally managed farmland of Northwest Germany – Current state and a participative approach to increase farmland biodiversity
(2020-10-08)With the beginning of Central European agriculture in the Neolithic, man-made landscapes have been created, which are characterized by arable land cultivated with crops and grasslands needed for livestock farming. In these ... -
Assembly processes in soil animal communities: Integrating phylogeny and trait-based approaches
(2018-03-02)Soils are among the most biodiverse systems on earth. The coexistence in soils of a multitude of animal species has long puzzled soil ecologists. How can so many species co-occur, and what are the processes driving and ... -
Assessing sociality: catarrhine microsatellites and the dynamics of glucocorticoids with social relationships in wild male Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)
(2024-02-22)In order to navigate within-group competition and maximise fitness, strategies have evolved in group-living animals, including social dominance ranks and affiliative relationships. Both of these play a crucial role in ... -
Bat activity and diversity in a temperate old-growth forest - Influence of horizontal and vertical structural heterogeneity on the bat assemblage of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Belarus
(2022-12-21)There are two different options to manage forests in the era of global climate warming, with partly opposing inferences. One is to reduce management or abandon it, as undisturbed forest ecosystems effectively store carbon ... -
Carbon and nutrient cycles depending on climate and land use along the elevation gradient of Mount Kilimanjaro
(2017-10-18)Ecosystem functions of tropical mountain ecosystems and their ability to provide ecosystem services are particularly threatened by the combined impact of climate and land-use change. Carbon and nutrient cycling are fundamental ... -
Carbon flow in belowground food webs assessed by isotope tracers
(2016-02-04)Soil food webs are complex networks that consist of several trophic levels and taxonomic groups including soil microorganisms, protists, nematodes, annelids and soil arthropods. Interactions between and within trophic ... -
Changes in trophic niches of oribatid mites with transformation of tropical rainforest systems - from rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia
(2021-01-05)During the last decades especially tropical regions suffered from degradation as well as transformation of landscapes into different land-use systems. Logged rainforest sites in Southeast Asia are often transformed into ... -
Changes in trophic structure of decomposer communities with land use in Central European temperate forests
(2014-03-05)Soil animals affect major ecosystem processes, such as nutrient cycling and soil formation, and thereby play a central role in aboveground - belowground interactions. Soil animal food webs are complex trophic networks ... -
Collembola communities across forest ecosystems in Germany: Long-term dynamics and interrelationships with fungal food resources
(2023-06-20)Collembola, one of the most abundant animals in soils worldwide, are important drivers of soil ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and the cycling of organic matter. By feeding on fungal hyphae and spores, they ... -
Community structure, trophic ecology and reproductive mode of oribatid mites (Oribatida, Acari) in forest ecosystems
(2012-12-19)Oribatid mites are predominantly soil-living organisms reaching densities of up to 400,000 individuals per square meter in forest soils, where they contribute to decomposition processes and nutrient cycling. In acidic ... -
Conservation ecology and mitigation of conflicts between livestock owners and snow leopards (Panthera uncia)
(2022-05-13)The world is currently facing an accelerated loss of biodiversity, which is considered a human-induced mass extinction. Large carnivores face a multitude of anthropogenic threats and are particularly prone to local extirpation ... -
Cooperative breeding and anti-predator strategies of the azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyanus Pallas, 1776) in northern Mongolia
(2016-07-14)In this study, I investigated the proximate mechanisms underlying an expression of the helping behaviour by examining feeding rate and frequency of helpers under varying food availability and predation risk in different ... -
Coral islands in West Papua: A model system for functional and taxonomic diversity and the resilience of isolated habitats
(2019-07-03)Biological diversity on islands is shaped by an interplay of geo-environmental dynamics that are relatively easy to observe, as islands have distinct boundaries and are often small in size. These unique characteristics of ... -
Definition of areas with high conservation priority in Southern Ecuador – An approach combining spatial and temporal patterns of deforestation and human impact with endemic plant diversity
(2016-10-28)The forests of South Ecuador have high conservation value because they are highly threatened, but also possess high diversity and endemism levels. However, as the process of conservation is inherently spatial, the little ... -
Determinants of population structure in the world's smallest primate, <i>Microcebus berthae</i>, across its global range in Menabe Central, Western Madagascar
(2012-01-11)This study investigated the population ecology of the world s smallest primate, Microcebus berthae, which is locally endemic to Menabe Central, the largest remaining tract of dry deciduous ... -
Development and dynamics of the Atlantic rainforest during the Late Quaternary and its connections with the climate system
(2016-06-29)The Atlantic rainforest harbour an outstandingly high biodiversirty. Many different environmental factors (climate, soil, geomorphology, ocean and etc) interact in a very large space creating complex ecosystems with high ... -
Diverse forests for climate change: Drought stress tolerance of secondary timber species
(2021-08-17)Accelerated climate warming in the past decades and a recent increase in the frequency and severity of summer heat-waves in combination with more irregular summer precipitation challenge silvicultural concepts in Europe’s ... -
Diversity and leaf functional traits of vascular epiphytes along gradients of elevation and forest-use intensity.
(2021-03-11)Tropical mountains are hotspots of biodiversity and refugia for plants and animals, especially in a world of accelerating climatic change (Steinbauer et al., 2018). Biological diversity on tropical mountains is shaped by ...