As the terrestrial human footprint continues to expand, the amount of native forest that is free
from significant damaging human activities is in precipitous decline. There is emerging …

BACKGROUND Rapid global change is creating fundamental challenges for the persistence
of natural ecosystems and their biodiversity. Conservation efforts aimed at the protection of …

Logging to “salvage” economic returns from forests affected by natural disturbances has
become increasingly prevalent globally. Despite potential negative effects on biodiversity …

Increasing evidence indicates that forest disturbances are changing in response to global
change, yet local variability in disturbance remains high. We quantified this considerable …

Dead wood (DW) provides critical habitat for thousands of species in forests, but its amount,
quality and diversity have been heavily reduced by forestry. Therefore, interventions aiming …

Aim Large disturbances increasingly shape the world's forests. Concomitantly, increasing
amounts of forest are subject to salvage logging. Understanding and managing the world's …

Post-fire landscapes are the frontline of forest ecosystem change. As such, they represent
opportunities to foster conditions that are better adapted to future climate and wildfires with …

Ongoing controversy over logging the ancient Białowieża Forest in Poland symbolizes a
global problem for policies and management of the increasing proportion of the earth's intact …

In Europe only some small isolated patches of forests with a high degree of naturalness still
exist. These are forests, whose structure, composition and function has been shaped by …

Human activities are altering natural areas worldwide. While our ability to map these
activities at fine scales is improving, a simplistic binary characterization of habitat and non …