Old growth attributes by chain saw: how between-patch heterogeneity changes the metacommunities of beetles in temperate forests
Oliver Mitesser, Marc W. Cadotte, Akira S. Mori, Fons van der Plas, Anne Chao, Julia Rothacher, Claus Bässler, Mirjana Bevanda, Peter H. W. Biedermann, Pia M. Bradler, Antonio José Castañeda-Gómez, Orsi Decker, Benjamin M. Delory, Sebastian Dittrich, Heike Feldhaar, , Jörg Müller
The paper experiments with structural heterogeneity in forests to determine its impact on beetle metacommunities, finding increased species diversity and support for mass-effect and species-sorting processes.
bioRxiv · Aug 30, 2025 · PreprintEcology