Microclimate modelling to understand the understorey community assembly within forests.
Assessing the role of structurally complex forests as climatic refugia for plant biodiversity.
Reforestation and afforestation programs are promoted as strategies to mitigate rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and enhance ecosystem services. Planting diverse forests is supposed to foster such benefits, but optimal tree planting techniques, …
Assessing the role of structurally complex forests as climatic refugia for plant biodiversity.
Biotic buffering is able to mitigate climatic extremes.