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Overview

Simon Thorn is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and biological sciences, with a notable concentration in forest ecology and biodiversity.

Their research output spans several key fields of study:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broad fields, they concentrate on specialized subfields including:

  • Insect Science
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Simon Thorn's main topics of work address various aspects of forest systems and their ecological dynamics:

  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Plant and Animal Studies

Their recent publications cover a range of ecological topics as demonstrated by the following papers:

  • "Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages," 2020, published in Ecological Research
  • "The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition," 2021, published in Nature
  • "Heterogeneity-diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests," 2020, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Relationship of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis," 2022, published in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simon Thorn frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, evidencing a network of researchers engaged in related studies. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Jörg Müller (40 joint publications)
  • Claus Bässler (18 joint publications)
  • Sebastian Seibold (15 joint publications)
  • Alexandro B. Leverkus (11 joint publications)
  • Anne Chao (10 joint publications)

Their work is often published in ecological and conservation-focused journals. The most frequent venues include:

  • Forest Ecology and Management (9 publications)
  • Biological Conservation (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • Journal of Applied Ecology (3 publications)
  • Journal of Animal Ecology (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: A meta‐analysis

    Simon Thorn;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Philip J. Burton

  • Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages

    Anne Chao;Yasuhiro Kubota;David Zelený;Chun Huo Chiu

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

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Martin M. Gossner

  • Association of extinction risk of saproxylic beetles with ecological degradation of forests in Europe

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Roland Brandl;Jörn Buse;Torsten Hothorn

  • Microclimate and habitat heterogeneity as the major drivers of beetle diversity in dead wood

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Boris Büche

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

    Sebastian Seibold;Werner Rammer;Torsten Hothorn;Rupert Seidl

  • A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems

    Dominik Kulakowski;Rupert Seidl;Jan Holeksa;Timo Kuuluvainen

  • Bark Beetles Increase Biodiversity While Maintaining Drinking Water Quality

    Burkhard Beudert;Claus Bässler;Simon Thorn;Simon Thorn;Reed Noss

  • The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis

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  • Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests

    Lea Heidrich;Soyeon Bae;Shaun Levick;Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold

  • “Primeval forest relict beetles” of Central Europe: a set of 168 umbrella species for the protection of primeval forest remnants

    Andreas Eckelt;Jörg Müller;Jörg Müller;Ulrich Bense;Hervé Brustel

  • Relationship of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient.

    Johannes Uhler;Sarah Redlich;Jie Zhang;Torsten Hothorn

  • The Necessity of Multitrophic Approaches in Community Ecology

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Marc W. Cadotte;J. Scott MacIvor;Simon Thorn

  • An attribute‐diversity approach to functional diversity, functional beta diversity, and related (dis)similarity measures

    Anne Chao;Chun‐Huo Chiu;Sébastien Villéger;I‐Fang Sun

  • Increasing disturbance demands new policies to conserve intact forest

    Jörg Müller;Jörg Müller;Reed F. Noss;Simon Thorn;Claus Bässler

  • Salvage logging in the world's forests: Interactions between natural disturbance and logging need recognition

    Alexandro B. Leverkus;David B. Lindenmayer;Simon Thorn;Lena Gustafsson

  • The living dead: acknowledging life after tree death to stop forest degradation

    Simon Thorn;Sebastian Seibold;Alexandro B Leverkus;Thomas Michler

  • Effects of natural disturbances and salvage logging on biodiversity – Lessons from the Bohemian Forest

    Simon Thorn;Claus Bässler;Claus Bässler;Miroslav Svoboda;Jörg Müller;Jörg Müller

  • Salvage logging effects on regulating and supporting ecosystem services – a systematic map

    Alexandro B. Leverkus;José María Rey Benayas;Jorge Castro;Dominique Boucher

  • An experimental test of the habitat-amount hypothesis for saproxylic beetles in a forested region.

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Lenore Fahrig

  • Please do not disturb ecosystems further.

    David Lindenmayer;Simon Thorn;Sam Banks

Frequent Co-Authors

Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Claus Bässler
Claus Bässler Goethe University Frankfurt
Sebastian Seibold
Sebastian Seibold Technical University of Munich
Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg
Roland Brandl
Roland Brandl Philipp University of Marburg
David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Marc W. Cadotte
Marc W. Cadotte University of Toronto
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Jorge Castro
Jorge Castro University of Granada

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