Decay fungi are an extremely important part of the forest ecosystem and provide essential ecosystem services including the breakdown of complex organic compounds and nutrient release. However, this important group of fungi ...

Worldwide, forest ecosystem functioning and plant diversity have been altered by global environmental change. Understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning with long-term environmental ...

Outbreaks of insect defoliators have broad ecological effects on forested ecosystems because they can cause extensive mortality in host tree populations. They also represent peaks in the density of food for specialist ...

Windthrow is a self-identified disturbance factor in forests, which has a huge ecological and economic impact. This paper discusses the influence of windthrow on boreal forests and analyzes the changes of tree ecosystems ...

The purpose of this paper is to clarify that the differences in natural regeneration between the two forests in northern China are caused by precipitation, altitude, temperature, and canopy density. Similarly, the ...

Coarse Woody Debris (CWD) is considered any woody decay that has fallen on the forest floor. This important piece of forest ecology has a large influence on a variety of forest characteristics. This thesis first evaluates ...

Biodiversity assessments are conducted using various methods featuring diverse assemblages of biota and whose results have seemingly endless important applications. In this assessment pitfall traps were used to research ...

Human activities exacerbate the production and emission of reactive nitrogen and lead to the increase and globalization of nitrogen deposition. At present, the interference of human activities in the global nitrogen cycle ...

This paper discusses the effects of climate change and disturbance on forest ecosystems. At present, the increasing temperature caused by global warming and the occurrence of various fire events has posed a huge challenge ...