Central Europe is predicted to experience an increase in temperatures and storm frequency and intensity, which will impact forest ecosystems directly and in interaction. European forests host a large share of Europe’s ...

Context - Bush encroachment has been observed in southern African savannas for several decades. This form of land degradation reduces the abundance of (palatable) grass biomass on farms, which in turn can support less ...

Human-caused restrictions like the fragmentation of the landscape poses a major challenge to wildlife conservation. Large and mobile species such as red deer (Cervus elaphus) are subject to increasing effects of isolation ...

Canopy gap research in European beech-dominated forests has experienced a remarkable upswing in the last decades. It contributes to answering both fundamental ecological questions and to designing silvicultural interventions ...

Human-caused fragmentation and loss of natural habitat are among the world’s major challenges today. In combination with climate change, these processes contribute to soaring local and global extinction of many plant and ...

Movement ecology is an emerging discipline within ecology. Researchers addressing ba- sic and applied questions within the movement ecology framework often rely on animal biotelemetry data. Biotelemetry sensors can collect ...