Thibault Lachat

TL;DR: A new database of more than 1.6 million samples from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world is described and assessed.

TL;DR: To make current wood-production practices in beech forests throughout Europe more conservation oriented, it is recommended increasing the amount of dead wood to >20 m(3) /ha; not removing dead wood of large diameter and allowing more dead wood in advanced stages of decomposition to develop; and designating strict forest reserves that would serve as refuges for and sources of saproxylic habitat specialists.

TL;DR: A definition and a typology of TreM types borne by living and dead standing trees in temperate and Mediterranean forests in Europe are proposed and provided the basis for compiling data and may help to improve the reliability of reporting and evaluation of the conservation value of forests.

TL;DR: The PREDICTS project as discussed by the authors provides a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use.

TL;DR: The habitat amount hypothesis predicts that species richness in plots of fixed size is more strongly and positively related to the amount of habitat around the plot than to patch size or isolation, and habitat amount better predicts species density than patch size and isolation combined.