Daniel C. Donato

TL;DR: In this article, a series of large, severe ( 99% overstorey mortality) outbreaks of spruce bark beetles Ips typographus in Central Europe was investigated, and the authors used a forest inventory data set to evaluate regeneration dynamics in Norway spruce Picea abies forests across the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem (spanning Germany and the Czech Republic).

TL;DR: A mixed rarefaction/extrapolation approach to a global multi-taxa dataset from disturbed forests, including birds, plants, insects and fungi, finds that 75 ± 7% of a naturally disturbed area of a forest needs to be left unlogged to maintain 90% richness of its unique species.

TL;DR: It is suggested that naturally structured early-seral pre-forests in the PNW provide key habitat for many species, including obligates and near-obligates, and that future research should seek to refine the understanding of the specific structural and compositional attributes that form the basis of these associations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured sedimentation, vertical accretion, and belowground carbon accumulation rates in mangrove forests from the Republic of Palau and Vietnam to examine how diversity (high-Vietnam vs. low-Palau), land use, and location (fringe vs. interior) might influence these parameters.

TL;DR: It is suggested that in unmanaged forests after bark beetle attack, a structurally complex phase prior to tree canopy closure can last several decades, and that many aspects of early-seral biodiversity and ecosystem function only fully develop given this extended time period.