Tropical montane forests in the Andes are one of the most species-rich ecosystems of the world, and are therefore both valuable from a conservation perspective and interesting for testing ecological hypotheses. Particularly ...

Global warming and increasing drought severity are exposing temperate forests to higher stress levels, challenging forest management in the 21st century. With a projected warming by 2–3 K until 2070, silvicultural adaptation ...

The historic large-scale forest conversion in the northern German lowlands resulted in a man-made dominance of Scots pine, in a landscape that would naturally be dominated by forests of European beech. Since drawbacks of ...

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 ...

A major part of the potential natural vegetation of central Europe consists of European beech forests (Fagus sylvatica L.). Beech is one of the most important broadleaf tree species for forestry within its distribution ...

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 ...

Global warming-related summer precipitation reduction represents a major threat on tree vitality and persistence and hence on forest productivity over large parts of the temperate zone. European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) ...

European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and European ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) are common tree species in Central European forests and of high ecological as well as economic value. However, knowledge about the ...

Agricultural intensification has transformed most grasslands of Central and Western Europe from extensive to highly intensive management during the last 50 years, resulting in a strong ...