Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge

摘要: article i nfo The importance of dead wood for biodiversity is widely recognized but strategies conservation exist only in some regions worldwide. Most combine knowledge from observational and experimental studies remain preliminary as many facets the complex relationships are unstudied. In this first global review 79 addressing patterns wood, we identify major gaps aim to foster collaboration among researchers by providing a map previous ongoing experiments. We show that research has focused primarily on temperate boreal forests, where results have helped de- veloping evidence-based strategies, whereas comparatively few such efforts been made subtropical or tropical zones. limited early stages decomposition diverse functionally important saproxylic taxa, e.g., fungi, flies termites, under-represented. Our meta-analysis confirms benefits dead-wood addition biodiversity, particularly shows responses non-saproxylic taxa heterogeneous. analysis indicates organisms associated with would benefit most prioritizing tropics other neglected regions, focusing advanced assessing wider range taxa. By using existing set-ups study decay additional could be obtained more quickly less effort compared initiating new