František Máliš

TL;DR: It is shown that thermophilization and the climatic lag in forest plant communities are primarily controlled by microclimate, and increasing tree canopy cover reduces warming rates inside forests, but loss of canopy cover leads to increased local heat that exacerbates the disequilibrium between community responses and climate change.

TL;DR: Investigating biodiversity changes in a meta-analysis of 39 resurvey studies in European temperate forests concluded that models forecasting future biodiversity changes should consider coarse-resolution environmental changes, account for differences in baseline environmental conditions and for local changes in fine- Resolution environmental conditions.

TL;DR: Community trajectories were clearly influenced by interactions between management legacies from over 200 years ago and environmental change, and effects of environmental change were rare, although higher rates of precipitation change increased plant height, accompanied by increases in fertility indicator values.

TL;DR: Forest organisms experience less severe temperature extremes than suggested by currently available macro climate data; therefore, climate–species relationships and the responses of species to anthropogenic global warming cannot be modelled accurately in forests using macroclimate data alone.

TL;DR: A call for temperature time series submissions to SoilTemp, a geospatial database initiative compiling soil and near-surface temperature data from all over the world, will pave the way towards an improved global understanding of microclimate and bridge the gap between the available climate data and the climate at fine spatiotemporal resolutions relevant to most organisms and ecosystem processes.