Ecological research heavily relies on coarse‐gridded climate data based on standardized temperature measurements recorded at 2 m height in open landscapes. However, many …
Context Forest microclimates differ from regional macroclimates because forest canopies affect energy fluxes near the ground. However, little is known about the environmental …
C Meeussen, S Govaert, T Vanneste… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
Global forest cover is heavily fragmented. Due to high edge-to-surface ratios in small forest patches, a large proportion of forests is affected by edge influences involving steep …
Forest canopies can buffer the understory against temperature extremes, often creating cooler microclimates during warm summer days compared to temperatures outside the …
Forest canopies buffer macroclimatic temperature fluctuations. However, we do not know if and how the capacity of canopies to buffer understorey temperature will change with …
Macroclimate warming is often assumed to occur within forests despite the potential for tree cover to modify microclimates. Here, using paired measurements, we compared the …
Forest canopies buffer the macroclimate and thus play an important role in mitigating climate- warming impacts on forest ecosystems. Despite the importance of the tree layer for …
Forests harbour large spatiotemporal heterogeneity in canopy structure. This variation drives the microclimate and light availability at the forest floor. So far, we do not know how light …
Climate warming is causing a shift in biological communities in favor of warm-affinity species (ie, thermophilization). Species responses often lag behind climate warming, but the …