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Effects of natural disturbances and salvage logging on biodiversity – Lessons from the Bohemian Forest by Thorn, Simon, Bässler, Claus, Svoboda, Miroslav, Müller, Jörg

“…•Windstorms and bark beetle outbreaks restored natural forests in the Bohemian Forest.•Increased dead wood amount and insolation contributed to increasing…”
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Salvage logging in the world's forests: Interactions between natural disturbance and logging need recognition by Leverkus, Alexandro B., Lindenmayer, David B., Thorn, Simon, Gustafsson, Lena

“…Aim: Large disturbances increasingly shape the world's forests. Concomitantly, increasing amounts of forest are subject to salvage logging. Understanding and…”
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The living dead: acknowledging life after tree death to stop forest degradation by Thorn, Simon, Seibold, Sebastian, Leverkus, Alexandro B, Michler, Thomas, Müller, Jörg, Noss, Reed F, Stork, Nigel, Vogel, Sebastian, Lindenmayer, David B

“…Global sustainability agendas focus primarily on halting deforestation, yet the biodiversity crisis resulting from the degradation of remaining forests is…”
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Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages by Chao, Anne, Kubota, Yasuhiro, Zelený, David, Chiu, Chun‐Huo, Li, Ching‐Feng, Kusumoto, Buntarou, Yasuhara, Moriaki, Thorn, Simon, Wei, Chih‐Lin, Costello, Mark J., Colwell, Robert K.

“…We develop a novel class of measures to quantify sample completeness of a biological survey. The class of measures is parameterized by an order q ≥ 0 to…”
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Increasing disturbance demands new policies to conserve intact forest by Müller, Jörg, Noss, Reed F., Thorn, Simon, Bässler, Claus, Leverkus, Alexandro B., Lindenmayer, David

“…Ongoing controversy over logging the ancient Białowieża Forest in Poland symbolizes a global problem for policies and management of the increasing proportion…”
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Primary determinants of communities in deadwood vary among taxa but are regionally consistent by Müller, Jörg, Ulyshen, Mike, Seibold, Sebastian, Cadotte, Marc, Chao, Anne, Bässler, Claus, Vogel, Sebastian, Hagge, Jonas, Weiß, Ingmar, Baldrian, Petr, Tláskal, Vojtěch, Thorn, Simon

“…The evolutionary split between gymnosperms and angiosperms has far‐reaching implications for the current communities colonizing trees. The inherent…”
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Relationship of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient by Uhler, Johannes, Redlich, Sarah, Zhang, Jie, Hothorn, Torsten, Tobisch, Cynthia, Ewald, Jörg, Thorn, Simon, Seibold, Sebastian, Mitesser, Oliver, Morinière, Jérôme, Bozicevic, Vedran, Benjamin, Caryl S., Englmeier, Jana, Fricke, Ute, Ganuza, Cristina, Haensel, Maria, Riebl, Rebekka, Rojas-Botero, Sandra, Rummler, Thomas, Uphus, Lars, Schmidt, Stefan, Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf, Müller, Jörg

“…Recently reported insect declines have raised both political and social concern. Although the declines have been attributed to land use and climate change,…”
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An attribute-diversity approach to functional diversity, functional beta diversity, and related (dis)similarity measures by Chao, Anne, Chiu, Chun-Huo, Villéger, Sébastien, Sun, I-Fang, Thorn, Simon, Lin, Yi-Ching, Chiang, Jyh-Min, Sherwin, William B.

“…Based on the framework of attribute diversity (a generalization of Hill numbers of order q), we develop a class of functional diversity measures sensitive not…”
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Dead-wood addition promotes non-saproxylic epigeal arthropods but effects are mediated by canopy openness by Seibold, Sebastian, Bässler, Claus, Baldrian, Petr, Reinhard, Lena, Thorn, Simon, Ulyshen, Michael D., Weiß, Ingmar, Müller, Jörg

“…Restoring dead-wood amounts in forests is an increasingly and successfully applied conservation measure to counteract negative effects of intensive logging on…”
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Modeling the extinction risk of European butterflies and odonates by Franke, Sophia, Pinkert, Stefan, Brandl, Roland, Thorn, Simon

“…Insect populations have become increasingly threatened during the last decades due to climate change and landuse intensification. Species characteristics…”
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Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space by Bae, Soyeon, Levick, Shaun R., Heidrich, Lea, Magdon, Paul, Leutner, Benjamin F., Wöllauer, Stephan, Serebryanyk, Alla, Nauss, Thomas, Krzystek, Peter, Gossner, Martin M., Schall, Peter, Heibl, Christoph, Bässler, Claus, Doerfler, Inken, Schulze, Ernst-Detlef, Krah, Franz-Sebastian, Culmsee, Heike, Jung, Kirsten, Heurich, Marco, Fischer, Markus, Seibold, Sebastian, Thorn, Simon, Gerlach, Tobias, Hothorn, Torsten, Weisser, Wolfgang W., Müller, Jörg

“…Recent progress in remote sensing provides much-needed, large-scale spatio-temporal information on habitat structures important for biodiversity conservation…”
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Bark Beetles Increase Biodiversity While Maintaining Drinking Water Quality by Beudert, Burkhard, Bässler, Claus, Thorn, Simon, Noss, Reed, Schröder, Boris, Dieffenbach‐Fries, Helga, Foullois, Nicole, Müller, Jörg

“…Increasing natural disturbances in conifer forests worldwide complicate political decisions about appropriate land management. In particular, allowing insects…”
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New insights into the consequences of post-windthrow salvage logging revealed by functional structure of saproxylic beetles assemblages by Thorn, Simon, Bässler, Claus, Gottschalk, Thomas, Hothorn, Torsten, Bussler, Heinz, Raffa, Kenneth, Müller, Jörg

“…Windstorms, bark beetle outbreaks and fires are important natural disturbances in coniferous forests worldwide. Wind-thrown trees promote biodiversity and…”
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Changes in the dominant assembly mechanism drive species loss caused by declining resources by Thorn, Simon, Bässler, Claus, Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus, Cadotte, Marc, Heibl, Christoph, Schäfer, Hanno, Seibold, Sebastian, Müller, Jörg

“…The species–energy hypothesis predicts that more productive areas support higher species richness. Conversely, when resources are reduced, species richness is…”
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Land use at different spatial scales alters the functional role of web-building spiders in arthropod food webs by Mader, Viktoria, Birkhofer, Klaus, Fiedler, Daniela, Thorn, Simon, Wolters, Volkmar, Diehl, Eva

“…•Prey of web-building spiders was affected by habitat and landscape interactions.•Thysanoptera dominated prey in cereal fields located in low-arable…”
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"Trees Live on Soil and Sunshine!"--Coexistence of Scientific and Alternative Conception of Tree Assimilation by Thorn, Christine Johanna, Bissinger, Kerstin, Thorn, Simon, Bogner, Franz Xaver

“…Successful learning is the integration of new knowledge into existing schemes, leading to an integrated and correct scientific conception. By contrast, the…”
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Environmental policies to cope with novel disturbance regimes-steps to address a world scientists' warning to humanity by Leverkus, Alexandro B, Thorn, Simon, Gustafsson, Lena, Noss, Reed, Müller, Jörg, Pausas, Juli G, Lindenmayer, David B

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Canopy closure determines arthropod assemblages in microhabitats created by windstorms and salvage logging by Thorn, Simon, Bußler, Heinz, Fritze, Michael-Andreas, Goeder, Patrick, Müller, Jörg, Weiß, Ingmar, Seibold, Sebastian

“…•We investigated arthropods in microsites in artificial spruce windthrows.•Assemblages in root plates were determined by canopy closure.•Saproxylic beetle…”
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Debarking harvesters simultaneously combat the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) and conserve non‐target beetle diversity by Zarges, Sebastian, Wohlert, Jan, Kamp, Johannes, Thorn, Simon, Müller, Jörg, Hagge, Jonas

“…In the face of climate change, the European Spruce Bark Beetle (Ips typographus) breeding predominantly in Norway spruce (Picea abies) led to exceptional…”
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Functional response of lignicolous fungal guilds to bark beetle deforestation by Bässler, Claus, Müller, Jörg, Cadotte, Marc W., Heibl, Christoph, Bradtka, Johannes H., Thorn, Simon, Halbwachs, Hans

“…Conifer-dominated forests in the northern hemisphere are prone to large-scale natural disturbances, yet our understanding of their effects beyond changes in…”
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