1. Background Fungal pathogens have the potential to affect plant biogeography and ecosystem processes through their influence on the fitness and functioning of their plant hosts. Simultaneously, changes in plant communities can influence fungal p...

We sampled trophobioses from 29 May to 31 July 2014 and 11 September to 8 October on site A and B dayly alternating between sites (for information on the trophobioses on Site A in 2014 see dataset 566). We selected in total 150 plots from tree di...

Total basal area per CSP based on living as well as broken stems due to the snowbreak event in 2008.

Thickness and mass of the standing leaf litter layer was measured in all CSPs in spring 2009, summer 2009, autumn 2009 and winter 2010. This piece of work will contribute to calculate total carbon and nitrogen pool sizes of the broad-leaved fore...

Soil chemical laboratory analyses of all plots on Site A. Contents of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur as well as pH-values (in H2O and KCl) of six depth increments per plot.

Pitfall traps (four traps per plot, located at the corners of the central 10 x 10 m subplot) were used to assess the activity abundance and species richness of selected macrofauna taxa in relation to the plots' woody plant diversity. Enables to te...