The importance of small natural features in forests—How the overgrowth of forest gaps affects indigenous flower supply and flower‐visiting insects and seed sets of six Campanula species
Abstract The abandonment of historical land‐use forms within forests, such as grazing or coppicing, and atmospheric nitrogen deposition, has led to an increasing overgrowth of forest gaps and canopy closure in forest ecosystems of Central Europe. From 1945 to 2015, 81% of the forest gaps greater tha...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2021-09-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7965 |