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The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition.
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73 authors at 20 institutions in 30 countries.
Sebastian SeiboldEcosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group, School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany. sebastian.seibold@tum.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7968-4489
Werner RammerEcosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group, School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Torsten HothornEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Rupert SeidlEcosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group, School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3338-3402
Michael D UlyshenSouthern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA, USA.
Janina LorzField Station Fabrikschleichach, University of Würzburg, Rauhenebrach, Germany.
Marc W CadotteBiological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
David B LindenmayerFenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4766-4088
Yagya P AdhikariDepartment of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
Roxana AragónInstituto de Ecología Regional, CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Yerba Buena, Argentina.
Soyeon BaeDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1961-1226
Petr BaldrianLaboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8983-2721
Hassan Barimani VarandiAgricultural and Natural Resources Research Centre of Mazandaran, Sari, Iran.
Jos BarlowLancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4992-2594
Claus BässlerDepartment of Biodiversity Conservation, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
Jacques BeauchêneCIRAD, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane (EcoFoG), AgroParisTech, CNRS, INRA, Universite des Antilles, Universite de Guyane, Kourou, France.
Erika BerenguerLancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8157-8792
Rodrigo S BergaminGrassland Vegetation Lab, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Tone BirkemoeFaculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway.
Gergely BorosInstitute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary.
Roland BrandlAnimal Ecology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Hervé BrustelÉcole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan, Université de Toulouse, UMR 1201 Dynafor, Toulouse, France.
Philip J BurtonEcosystem Science and Management Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Terrace, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5956-2716
Yvonne T Cakpo-TossouLaboratory of Applied Ecology, University of Abomey-Calavi, Godomey, Benin.
Jorge CastroDepartment of Ecology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Eugénie CateauÉcole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan, Université de Toulouse, UMR 1201 Dynafor, Toulouse, France.
Tyler P CobbRoyal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Nina FarwigConservation Ecology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Romina D FernándezInstituto de Ecología Regional, CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Yerba Buena, Argentina.
Jennifer FirnScience and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6026-8912
Kee Seng GanForest Research Institute Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Grizelle GonzálezInternational Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, San Juan, PR, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3007-5540
Martin M GossnerForest Entomology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1516-6364
Jan C HabelEvolutionary Zoology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
Christian HébertNatural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
Christoph HeiblBavarian Forest National Park, Grafenau, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-3299
Osmo HeikkalaEurofins Ahma Oy, Oulu, Finland.
Andreas HempDepartment of Plant Systematics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
Claudia HempDepartment of Plant Systematics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
Joakim HjälténDepartment of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
Stefan HotesApplied Landscape Ecology, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.
Jari KoukiSchool of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2624-8592
Thibault LachatForest Entomology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3952-7443
Jie LiuCAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
Yu LiuECNU-Alberta Joint Lab for Biodiversity Study, Tiantong National Station for Forest Ecosystem Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9869-2735
Ya-Huang LuoCAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
Damasa M MacandogInstitute of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Laguna, The Philippines.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3700-1176
Pablo E MartinaDepartment of Thermodynamics, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Resistencia, Argentina.
Sharif A MukulTropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6955-2469
Baatarbileg NachinForest Ecosystem Monitoring Laboratory, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Kurtis NisbetSchool of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3536-7318
John O'HalloranSchool of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Anne OxbroughEdge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK.
Jeev Nath PandeyInstitute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Pokhara, Nepal.
Tomáš PavlíčekInstitute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Stephen M PawsonScion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute), Christchurch, New Zealand.
Jacques S RakotondranaryInstitute of Zoology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Jean-Baptiste RamanamanjatoTropical Biodiversity and Social Enterprise, Fort Dauphin, Madagascar.
Liana RossiDepartamento de Ecologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil.
Jürgen SchmidlEcology Group, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5497-4116
Mark SchulzeH. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Blue River, OR, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0438-4091
Stephen SeatonEnvironmental and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University, Melville, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1076-6005
Marisa J StoneEnvironmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5766-0646
Nigel E StorkEnvironmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia.
Byambagerel SuranForest Ecosystem Monitoring Laboratory, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7078-5566
Anne Sverdrup-ThygesonFaculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3122-2250
Simon ThornField Station Fabrikschleichach, University of Würzburg, Rauhenebrach, Germany.
Ganesh ThyagarajanAshoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India.
Timothy J WardlawARC Centre for Forest Value, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8686-0671
Wolfgang W WeisserTerrestrial Ecology Research Group, School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2757-8959
Sungsoo YoonEcoBank Team, National Institute of Ecology, Seocheon-gun, Republic of Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4712-8004
Naili ZhangCollege of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
Jörg MüllerField Station Fabrikschleichach, University of Würzburg, Rauhenebrach, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1409-1586
University of Würzburg · DEGriffith University · AUUniversity of Bayreuth · DEKunming Institute of Botany · CNNational University of Mongolia · MNNational University of Tucumán · ARNorwegian University of Life Sciences · NOPhilipps University of Marburg · DETechnical University of Munich · DEUniversité Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées · FRAshoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment · INAustralian National University · AUBavarian Forest National Park · DEBeijing Forestry University · CNBern University of Applied Sciences · CHCanadian Forest Service · CACentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRChuo University · JPCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology · CZEast China Normal University · CN
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Abstract
The amount of carbon stored in deadwood is equivalent to about 8 per cent of the global forest carbon stocks
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