We studied the effects of tree species on leaf litter decomposition and forest floor dynamics in a common garden experiment of 14 tree species (Abies alba, Acer platanoides, Acer pseudoplatanus, Betula pendula, Carpinus betulus, Fagus sylvatica, Larix decidua, Picea abies, Pinus nigra, Pinus sylvestris, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus robur, Quercus rubra, and Tilia cordata) in southwestern Pola...

Understanding how past climate changes affected biodiversity is a key issue in contemporary ecology and conservation biology. These diversity changes are, however, difficult to reconstruct from paleoecological sources alone, because macrofossil and pollen records do not provide complete information about species assemblages. Ecologists therefore use information from modern analogues of past com...

Abstract. Forest steppes are dynamic ecosystems, highly susceptible to changes in climate, disturbances and land use. Here we examine the Holocene history of European forest steppe ecotone lower Danube Plain better understand its sensitivity climate fluctuations, fire human impact, timing transition into a cultural steppe. We used multi-proxy analyses (pollen, n-alkanes, coprophilous fungi, cha...

Bu çalışmada Göreme Milli Parkı içerisinde yayılış gösteren epifitik karayosunlarının substrat tercihleri ordinasyon yöntemleri kullanılarak araştırılmıştır. Çalışmada istatistik hesaplamalar için açık kaynak kodlu PAST (PAleontological STatistics) programı kullanılmıştır. program ile biyolojik çeşitlilik ve benzerlik indeksleri hesaplanmış Temel Bileşen (PCA) Küme (CA) analizleri yapılmıştır. ...

In coppice-with-standards, once a common type of management in Central European lowland forests, selected trees (standards) were left to grow mature among the regularly harvested coppice stools to obtain construction wood. After the underwood was harvested, the forest canopy opened rapidly, giving standard trees an opportunity to benefit from reduced competition. Although this silvicultural sys...