In Europe, like in many temperate lowlands worldwide, forest has a long history of
fragmentation and land use change. In many places, forest landscapes consist of patches of …

In the context of the worldwide increasing interest on the role of forests for global warming
and biodiversity targets, there is a growing tendency to consider the need to increase not …

One of the main challenges in biodiversity conservation is to curb a further degradation and
loss of high-quality habitats. In agricultural matrix landscapes, the detection of alternative …

The general negative impact of forestry on wood-inhabiting fungal diversity is well
recognized, yet the effect of forest naturalness is poorly disentangled among different fungal …

Altered forest landscape structure has been suggested as a possible cause for the decline of
some specialized forest species in Fennoscandia. Here, we present a time series of boreal …

Many forests throughout the world contain legacies of former human impacts and
management. This study reviews evidence of floristic legacies in the understory of Swedish …

Successional and other temporal habitat changes may also affect conservation areas and
reduce their conservation value. Active management to promote vulnerable habitat features …

Understanding the long-term interaction between humans and the environment requires the
reconstruction of historical forest dynamics. However, the accuracy of methods to reconstruct …

Historical processes may have longer lasting effects in arid forest and woodlands because
of slow rates of succession. We investigated the influence of historical tree harvesting upon …

Questions Long‐term fragmentation and land use in Europe have created a landscape
pattern where small forest patches are embedded among agricultural landscapes. These …