Henning Meesenburg

TL;DR: A quantitative synthesis of longterm biodiversity trends across Europe is reported, showing how, despite overall increase in biodiversity metric and stability in abundance, trends differ between regions, ecosystem types, and taxa.

TL;DR: It is concluded that environmental and host factors explain most of the variation in ectomycorrhizal diversity, that the environmental thresholds used as major ecosystem assessment tools need adjustment and that the importance of belowground specificity and plasticity has previously been underappreciated.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential litter decomposition was investigated by using standardized substrates (Rooibos and Green tea) for comparison of litter mass loss at 336 sites (ranging from

TL;DR: The results suggest that the accumulation of necromass was not due to a slower disappearance at the more acid sites, but to earlier root death.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared linear regression and Mann-Kendall trend analysis techniques often used to detect temporal trends in atmospheric deposition and found that the choice of method influenced the number of significant trends, and the slope of a trend needed to exceed a certain minimum in order to be detected despite the short-term variability of deposition.