| species interactions and climate change: how the disruption of species co-occurrence will impact on an avian forest guild. | interspecific interactions are crucial in determining species occurrence and community assembly. understanding these interactions is thus essential for correctly predicting species' responses to climate change. we focussed on an avian forest guild of four hole-nesting species with differing sensitivities to climate that show a range of well-understood reciprocal interactions, including facilitation, competition and predation. we modelled the potential distributions of black woodpecker and boreal ... | 2020 | 31804736 |
| the neglected bee trees: european beech forests as a home for feral honey bee colonies. | it is a common belief that feral honey bee colonies (apis mellifera l.) were eradicated in europe through the loss of habitats, domestication by man and spread of pathogens and parasites. interestingly, no scientific data are available, neither about the past nor the present status of naturally nesting honeybee colonies. we expected near-natural beech (fagus sylvatica l.) forests to provide enough suitable nest sites to be a home for feral honey bee colonies in europe. here, we made a first asse ... | 2018 | 29637025 |