Current management strategies for forests need to be adapted considering the climate change and its predicted effects. The joint project “FOMOSY- KK - Development of a forest monitoring system with regard to carbon sequestration and climate adaptation” focuses on the effects of adapted forest management. The Professorship of Forest Protection (Technische Universität Dresden) as one partner evaluates the effects of silvicultural management focusing on indicators of naturalness. Managed forest stands are compared to unmanaged reference stands and effects of experimental canopy gaps are examined. The occurrence of bark beetles and their antagonists is studied by visual recording of colonization traces on trap logs, by catching insects emerging from these logs in deadwood eclector traps and by the use of baited Theysohn® slot traps in the managed forest stands. The structure of every habitat is examined regarding the occurrence of dead wood. From this and the comparison of data with literature multifaceted food webs are deduced. These food webs show the functions of fauna elements that can be used to develop a monitoring system. So far, taphrorychus bicolor was found to prefer trap logs in managed stands compared to unmanaged reference stands. In general, sun exposed logs exhibited more signs of colonization by bark beetles. Regarding the number of species and individuals found in managed and unmanaged stands no significant differences were found.