Bernhard Schuldt

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.

This study shows the xylem safety-efficiency trade-off is not universal, emerging only in specific ecological and evolutionary contexts.

This paper identifies a two-step mechanism of embolism propagation in angiosperm xylem, involving bubble generation and embolism formation as distinct processes.

Across 109,626 wood density records from 16,829 plant species (GWDD v.2), intraspecific variation explains 15% of global variance, tracks interspecific environmental gradients at 20-30% magnitude, and limits single-plant predictability.

The paper examines how vertical and horizontal temperature differences in a managed forest influence arthropod communities using temperature loggers and metabarcoding.

The paper quantifies microclimatic heterogeneity in forests and links it to biodiversity, showing that canopy structure and gaps influence temperature variation and species diversity.

The paper creates a high-resolution global map of wood density using species and vegetation data, showing improved accuracy and a wider density range than previous estimates.

This study links stomatal size and density to water-use efficiency and leaf carbon isotope ratio in juvenile and mature trees, showing GCL and SD as key functional traits.

TreeCompR is an open-source package that evaluates tree competition indices using 3D point clouds and forest inventory data, comparing their performance across 308 European beech trees.