Maartje J. Klapwijk

TL;DR: Positive outcomes from mixtures are identified including increased biodiversity, water quality, esthetic and recreational values, as well as reduced stand vulnerability to pest and pathogen damage.

TL;DR: It is suggested that experiments investigating the mechanistic responses of interacting species to environmental change are needed to support the analysis and interpretation of observational data on species' phenology.

TL;DR: A review of methods strongly suggests that while in many cases individual methods are sufficient to study specific questions, combinations of methods hold a high potential to provide more holistic insights into predation events.

TL;DR: Analyzing a long-term data set collected by the Hungarian Forest Research Institute over the period 1961-2009 concludes that species exhibiting a trend toward outbreak-level damage over a greater geographical area may be positively affected by changes in weather conditions coinciding with important life stages.

TL;DR: This work compared the monoculture clear-cut regime commonly used during the recent decades in Europe, especially in Fennoscandia, and in North America with three alternative forest management methods, short rotation forestry, mixed forest stands and continuous cover forestry, and argued that changing forest management to any of the methods discussed will decrease the relative effects of bottom-up forces and increase the Relative effects of top-down forces on forest pests.