Thilo Heinken

TL;DR: It is shown that microclimatic effects brought about by forest canopy closure can buffer biotic responses to macroclimate warming, thus explaining an apparent climatic lag.

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: In this paper, the contribution of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition versus other ecological drivers on forest understorey plant communities by combining a temporal and spatial approach was assessed by combining data from 1205 (semi-permanent vegetation plots taken from 23 rigorously selected under-storey resurvey studies along a large deposition gradient across deciduous temperate forest in Europe.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared weather station temperatures for an altitudinal (500900 m a.s.l.) and a latitudinal gradient (4968 degrees N) with data obtained by temperature sensors placed right below the soil surface at five sites along these gradients.

TL;DR: This work has shown that zoochory can be an efficient mechanism for plants to colonize new patches of potentially suitable habitat and predicted that seed dispersal by ungu ...