Monthly Archive:: November 2018

30 Nov 2018

Covariation between tree size and shade tolerance modulates mixed-forest productivity

In tree communities, tree size inequality reduces productivity and interacts with tree shade tolerance to modulate stand productivity, with a higher productivity in stands where shade-intolerant species dominate shade-tolerant species in size. Abstract Positive diversity–productivity relationships have
12 Nov 2018

New special issue: Frontiers in Modelling Future Forest Growth, Yield and Wood Properties

We are launching the special issue “Frontiers in Modelling Future Forest Growth, Yield and Wood Properties”. This special issue will gather articles from presentations given at the IUFRO Meeting “New Frontiers in Forecasting Forests” held in Stellenbosch,
9 Nov 2018

Science needs management data for a better prediction of climate change effects on socio-ecosystems.

Recent articles show that climate-change science lacks multi-scale ecosystem demographics and dynamics data to test, improve and validate its models and recommendations. This is a major drawback, one that leads to skepticism from managers, policy makers and
6 Nov 2018

Liming alters body size distribution in a community of epigeic spiders in birch forest (Betula pendula Roth)

Liming, an ameliorative method for acidified forest soils, affected the relative abundance of prey of ground-hunting spiders and consequently reduced densities of functionally similar species of these predators. Context Liming, an ameliorative method for acidified forest soils,