Guillaume Decocq

TL;DR: It is shown that microclimatic effects brought about by forest canopy closure can buffer biotic responses to macroclimate warming, thus explaining an apparent climatic lag.

TL;DR: The synthesis indicates that many life-history traits of plants vary with latitude but the translation of latitudinal clines into responses to temperature is a crucial step, and integrated approaches of observational studies along temperature gradients, experimental methods and common garden experiments increasingly emerge as the way forward to further the authors' understanding of species and community responses to climate warming.

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: The results suggest long-term negative effects of selective cutting on both structural and functional plant diversity, compared with coppice-with-standards, which does not cope with the objective of sustainable forest management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the contribution of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition versus other ecological drivers on forest understorey plant communities by combining a temporal and spatial approach was assessed by combining data from 1205 (semi-permanent vegetation plots taken from 23 rigorously selected under-storey resurvey studies along a large deposition gradient across deciduous temperate forest in Europe.