Forest disturbance

Increasing forest disturbance enhances habitat suitability for Europe’s large herbivores
Forest disturbances have increased in many regions, but how they impact habitat suitability for wildlife remains poorly understood. …
Julian Oeser, Rafał Kowalczyk, Dries Kuijper, Wiebke Neumann, Rudolf Reiner, Rupert Seidl, Cornelius Senf, Hendrik Bluhm, Nadège C. Bonnot, Luca Börger, Tomasz Borowik, Francesca Cagnacci, Marcin Churski, Benedikt Gehr, Marco Heurich, A. J. Mark Hewison, Klemen Jerina, Max Kröschel, Nicolas Morellet, Atle Mysterud, Nives Pagon, Gabriele Retez, Sebastian Seibold, Rita T. Torres, Alba Viana-Soto, Adrian Mihai Aldea, Roksana Baryło, Sophie Baur, Sebastian Catanoiu, Rok Cerne, Marcin Grzegorzek, Dário Hipólito, Maciej Januszczak, Anders Jarnemo, Miloš Ježek, Artūras Kibiša, Daniel Klich, Alain Licoppe, Julien Lievens, Matthias-Claudio Loretto, Weronika Maslanko, Erling Meisingset, Rasmus Mohr Mortensen, András Náhlik, Wanda Olech, Astrid Olejarz, Federico Ossi, Algimantas Paulauskas, Maryline Pellerin, Kajetan Perzanowski, Wibke Peters, Mirosław Ratkiewicz, Thomas Rempfler, Sonia Saïd, Călin Constantin Șerban, Kastytis Šimkevičius, Jakub Skorupski, Maria Sobczuk, Nikica Šprem, Peter Sunde, Tamás Tari, Maciej Tracz, Magdalena Tracz, Aleksandra Wołoszyn-Gałęza, Tobias Kuemmerle
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Climate variability and human disturbances as drivers of vegetation health in the riparian zone of the Danube

Forests along rivers are among the most valuable ecosystems, buffering climate extremes and sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem …

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Protecting temperate old-growth forests as biotic microrefugia amid climate change
In times of climate change and biosphere degradation, leveraging the potential of forests to support carbon storage and biodiversity is …
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Unpacking the role of failed land investments in driving tropical deforestation
Tropical and subtropical forests and savannas support millions of forest-dependent people. These ecosystems are under rising pressure …
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Quantifying the Spatial Footprint of Agriculture-Driven Edge Effects in a Global Deforestation Hotspot
Tropical dry forests are under high and rising pressure from agricultural expansion, resulting in widespread forest conversion and …
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Only one-third of protected areas in the Chaco effectively curb woodland loss, but their impact extends beyond their boundaries
Forests in the tropics and subtropics harbor most of the world’s biodiversity and provide essential services but are under high …
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Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians
Most landscapes today have lost much of their historical biodiversity, particularly the largest animals (mega-fauna). Yet, in some …
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Same, but different: similar states of forest structure in temperate mountain regions of Europe despite different social-ecological forest disturbance regimes

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Ecosystem services provided by mountain forests are critically linked to forest structure. Social-ecological disturbance …

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Spatial variation in red deer density in a transboundary forest ecosystem
Forests in Europe are exposed to increasingly frequent and severe disturbances. The resulting changes in the structure and composition …
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Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests
Agricultural intensification, an increase in per-area productivity, may spare forests otherwise lost to agricultural expansion. Yet …
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