Heike Feldhaar

The study shows that warmer microclimates in forest gaps boost biodiversity in colder regions but not in warmer ones, suggesting climate-specific forest management strategies.

The paper examines how moisture affects nesting diversity of bees, wasps, and parasitoids in deadwood, finding that lying deadwood has lower diversity due to higher moisture retention.

COLLEMBOT automates counting of Collembola in OECD 232 tests using YOLOv11, achieving high accuracy and significantly reducing time compared to manual methods.

Antscan provides 2,193 standardized whole-body 3D synchrotron micro-CT datasets across 792 ant species (212 genera), pairing morphological volumes with automated deep-learning segmentation and genome sequencing projects.

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.

This study extends the typology of tree-related microhabitats to include tropical forests and compares their diversity between tropical and temperate forests.