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Spatial Clustering of Termites but Not Fungi at Site‐Scale Drive Global Wood Decay PatternsNARA Subscribed
Deadwood stores ~8% of global forest carbon, and termites and fungi are its primary decomposers—organisms whose activities are likely to intensify under global warming. Yet it remains unclear how their site‐scale spatial self‐organization—whether clustered or overdispersed—varies with global change stressors and shapes global wood decomposition patterns. Leveraging a global experiment, we find that increasing termite spatial o...
Habitat filtering, not dispersal limitation, drives ant and termite community assembly along a tropical forest regeneration gradientNARA Subscribed
Regenerating forests comprise a significant proportion of tropical forest ecosystems, yet species assembly mechanisms after anthropogenic disturbances remain poorly understood. Locally established ant communities follow predictable paths along forest regeneration gradients, but whether this results from dispersal limitation or habitat filtering is unclear. Social insects, with highly mobile dispersing reproductives (alates) bu...
Tree Regeneration After Unprecedented Forest Disturbances in Central Europe Is Robust but Maladapted to Future Climate ChangeNARA Subscribed
Central Europe has been a hotspot of forest disturbance during 2018–2020, with large pulses of tree mortality from drought and bark beetles. Post‐disturbance recovery is crucial for forest resilience and the continued provision of ecosystem services. We surveyed 849 plots in disturbance hotspots across 10 Central European countries to assess the state of early (3–5 years) post‐disturbance tree regeneration. Our specific object...
Leaf and Root Traits Show Contrasting Resource Exploitation Strategies, but Converge Along Elevation in the Hengduan Mountain ForestsNARA Subscribed
Aim The variations of leaf and root traits in communities are associated with above‐ and below‐ground resource exploitation strategies and are used to infer community assembly processes along environmental gradients. However, little is known about variations in leaf and root traits and their drivers along elevations in mountain forests. Location Yulong Mountain, southeastern Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China. Taxon Seed plan...
Widespread insect losses are a critical global problem. Mitigating this problem requires identifying the principal drivers across different taxa and determining which insects are covered by protected areas. However, doing so is hindered by missing information on most species owing to extremely high insect diversity and difficulties in morphological identification. To address this knowledge gap, we used one of the most comprehe...
Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can track life underwater and on land. However, we lack a unified methodology to report this sampling effort and a comprehensive overview of PAM coverage to gauge its potential as a global research and monitoring tool. To address this...
Species-rich grasslands and their associated arthropods have become rare across Europe. Linear green infrastructure, such as river dikes, can serve as secondary habitats and improve the connectivity among isolated grasslands. Although applied extensively on dike grasslands, mowing impairs local arthropod populations, depending on the date and the techniques applied, while leaving areas uncut over winter can support arthropods....
Seasonally Changing Interactions of Species Traits of Termites and Trees Promote Complementarity in Coarse Wood DecompositionNARA Subscribed
Complementary resource use by functionally different species may accelerate ecosystem processes. However, how co‐variation in plant traits and animal traits promotes complementarity through temporal plant–animal interactions is poorly understood, even less so in detrital systems, thereby hampering our fundamental understanding of decomposition and carbon turnover. We hypothesised that, in seasonal subtropical forests where ter...
Auswirkungen der Deichmahd auf Vegetation und ArthropodenNARA Subscribed
Mountain forests are plant diversity hotspots, but changing climate and increasing forest disturbances will likely lead to far‐reaching plant community change. Projecting future change, however, is challenging for forest understory plants, which respond to forest structure and composition as well as climate. Here, we jointly assessed the effects of both climate and forest change, including wind and bark beetle disturbances, us...
Wood decomposition is increased by insect diversity, selection effects, and interactions between insects and microbesNARA Subscribed
Biodiversity drives ecosystem processes, but its influence on deadwood decomposition is poorly understood. To test the effects of insect diversity on wood decomposition, we conducted a mesocosm experiment manipulating the species richness and functional diversity of beetles. We applied a novel approach using computed tomography scanning to quantify decomposition by insects and recorded fungal and bacterial communities. Decompo...
Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer diversity differentially across trophic levelsNARA Subscribed
The species‐energy hypothesis predicts increasing biodiversity with increasing energy in ecosystems. Proxies for energy availability are often grouped into ambient energy (i.e., solar radiation) and substrate energy (i.e., non‐structural carbohydrates or nutritional content). The relative importance of substrate energy is thought to decrease with increasing trophic level from primary consumers to predators, with reciprocal eff...
The diversity of mycorrhiza‐associated fungi and trees shapes subtropical mountain forest ecosystem functioningNARA Subscribed
Aim Mycorrhiza play key roles for ecosystem structure and functioning in forests. However, how different mycorrhizal types influence mountain forest biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships are largely unknown. We evaluate how the diversity of distinct mycorrhiza‐associated fungi and trees shapes forest carbon storage along elevational gradients. Location Gaoligong Mountains within Hengduan Mountains, Southwest C...
Concerning declines in insect populations have been reported from Europe and the United States, yet there are gaps in our knowledge of the drivers of insect trends and their distribution across the world. We report on our analysis of a spatially extensive, 14‐year study of ground‐dwelling beetles in four natural forest biomes spanning Japan's entire latitudinal range (3000 km). Beetle species richness, abundance and biomass de...
Will forest dynamics continue to accelerate throughout the 21st century in the Northern Alps?NARA Subscribed
Observational evidence suggests that forests in the Northern Alps are changing at an increasing rate as a consequence of climate change. Yet, it remains unclear whether the acceleration of forest change will continue in the future, or whether downregulating feedbacks will eventually decouple forest dynamics from climate change. Here we studied future forest dynamics at Berchtesgaden National Park, Germany by means of a process...