Krzysztof Świerkosz

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: 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: It is illustrated how combining resurvey data from multiple regions can increase the likelihood of driver orthogonality within the design and show that repeatedly surveying across multiple regions provides higher representativeness and comprehensiveness, allowing us to answer more completely a broader range of questions.

TL;DR: This work quantifies how individual species trajectories scale up to diversity changes using data from 68 vegetation resurvey studies of seminatural forests in Europe, and suggests that Herb-layer species with small geographic ranges are being replaced by more widely distributed species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors designed a study that mimicked all steps in a resurvey study and that allowed determination of the magnitude of observer errors only vs the joint observer and relocation errors.