Leen Depauw

TL;DR: Arguments for the necessary inclusion of land-use legacies in predicting how multiple global environmental changes will affect future ecosystem patterns and processes are highlighted, to allow biologists to synthesize compositional and functional ecosystem responses.

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: 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: It is demonstrated that growth responds interactively to global-change drivers, with species-specific sensitivities to the combined factors, and that past forest management can modulate the effects of changing temperatures on Quercus' growth.