Recent global warming is acting across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems to
favor species adapted to warmer conditions and/or reduce the abundance of cold-adapted …

Climate warming is causing a shift in biological communities in favor of warm-affinity species
(ie, thermophilization). Species responses often lag behind climate warming, but the …

Disturbance may cause community composition across sites to become more or less
homogenous, depending on the importance of different processes involved in community assembly…

Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition is expected to change forest understorey plant community
composition and diversity, but results of experimental addition studies and observational …

315 isolated semi‐natural and natural stands in NW Germany were investigated floristically,
285 stands of ancient woodlands and 30 recent ones. In the study area nearly all semi‐…

Global biodiversity is affected by numerous environmental drivers. Yet, the extent to which
global environmental changes contribute to changes in local diversity is poorly understood. …

Aim Forest understorey microclimates are often buffered against extreme heat or cold, with
important implications for the organisms living in these environments. We quantified seasonal …

Long-term analyses of biodiversity data highlight a ‘biodiversity conservation paradox’:
biological communities show substantial species turnover over the past century 1 , 2 , but …

Understanding the mechanisms that control vegetation development beneath canopy gaps
is of major importance for a nature-based management of European beech forests. We …

The contemporary state of functional traits and species richness in plant communities
depends on legacy effects of past disturbances. Whether temporal responses of community …