Fire and insects are natural disturbance agents in many forest ecosystems, often interacting to affect succession, nutrient cycling, and forest species composition. We review literature pertaining to effects of fire-insect interactions on ecological succession, use of prescribed fire for insect pest control, and effects of fire on insect diversity from northern and boreal forests in North Ameri...

The forest canopy harbors a diverse assemblage of plants of many different growth habits. The reproductive parts of tall trees, many epiphytes, and lianas may exist only in the upper canopy. Access to these upper regions is essential to identify canopy plants and to collect and document voucher specimens for a particular forest region. The majority of botanists, however, have relied on collecti...

Focusing on the chemical basis of dietary selection while investigating the nutritional ecology of animals helps understand their feeding biology. It is also important to consider food abundance/biomass while studying the mechanism of animal food selection. We studied leaf selection in two Bornean folivorous primates in relation to plant chemistry and abundance: proboscis monkeys inhabiting a s...

The widespread paradigm in ecology that community structure determines function has recently been challenged by the high complexity of microbial communities. Here, we investigate the patterns of and connections between microbial community structure and microbially-mediated ecological function across different forest management practices and temporal changes in leaf litter across beech forest ec...

Complex systems science provides a transdisciplinary framework to study systems characterized by (1) heterogeneity, (2) hierarchy, (3) self-organization, (4) openness, (5) adaptation, (6) memory, (7) non-linearity, and (8) uncertainty. Complex systems thinking has inspired both theory and applied strategies for improving ecosystem resilience and adaptability, but applications in forest ecology ...

Ken W. Krauss, Jamie A. Duberstein,* Nicole Cormier, Hillary S. Young and Stacie A. Hathaway 1 US Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, 700 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, LA, 70506, USA 2 Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University, Georgetown, SC, 28442, USA 3 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California – Santa Barba...

a Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706‐1598, USA b Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Theodor-Lieser Strasse 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany c Biodiversity Conservation and Bioresources Use Laboratory, Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences, 33...

EDWARD A. D. MITCHELL†*, ALEXANDRE BUTTLER‡, PHILIPPE GROSVERNIER§, HÅKAN RYDIN¶, ANDY SIEGENTHALER† and JEAN-MICHEL GOBAT† †Department of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany, University of Neuchâtel, Rue Émile Argand 11, CH-2007 Neuchâtel, Switzerland; ‡Laboratoire de Chrono-écologie, UMR 6565 CNRS, UFR des Sciences et Techniques, 16 route de Gray, Université de Franche-Comté, F-25030, Besançon...