Seven years of follow-up of continuous-cover forestry: responses of saproxylic beetles
Fennoscandian forest management has since 1950s been characterized by forest regeneration through clear cutting, with subsequent top-soil preparation, seeding or planting with conifers, and removals of legacy elements important for biodiversity, such as dead wood. According to national Red Lists, th...
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/61773 2023-05-15T16:12:54+02:00 Seven years of follow-up of continuous-cover forestry: responses of saproxylic beetles Heikkala, Osmo Koivula, Matti Siitonen, Juha 2018 text/html fulltext https://doi.org/10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107208 http://urn.fi/ eng eng Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä https://peerageofscience.org/conference/eccb2018/107208/ ECCB2018: 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. 12th - 15th of June 2018, Jyväskylä, Finland Heikkala, O., Koivula, M. and Siitonen, J. (2018). Seven years of follow-up of continuous-cover forestry: responses of saproxylic beetles. 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. doi:10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107208 doi:10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107208 http://urn.fi/ CC BY 4.0 © the Authors, 2018 openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferenceItem conference paper not in proceedings publishedVersion conferenceObject 2018 ftjyvaeskylaenun https://doi.org/10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107208 2021-09-23T20:16:20Z Fennoscandian forest management has since 1950s been characterized by forest regeneration through clear cutting, with subsequent top-soil preparation, seeding or planting with conifers, and removals of legacy elements important for biodiversity, such as dead wood. According to national Red Lists, this structural simplification in most Fennoscandian forests has made hundreds of species threatened. One possible way to support these species is continuous-cover forestry, where at least half of a stand is covered by mature or near-mature trees throughout the logging rotation. Such forestry might secure both economic benefits and support specialized forest species, but empirical evidence is largely lacking. Therefore, we collected beetles in Eastern Finnish Scots pine forests that represent a continuum from clear-cuts to different continuous-cover forestry techniques, combined with large-sized dead-wood increment, and unharvested mature forest ("control"). We used flight-intercept window traps one year before (2010) and seven years after logging (2011-17) to collect beetle data. We will present comparisons of the overall community, and specialized groups of saproxylic beetles, and associate these patterns with structural features of forest stands, particularly volume and diversity of live and dead trees and size of cleared gaps. Our results will shed light on relative merits of continuous-cover forestry and legacy elements from an ecological point of view. Such information is crucial not only for conservation of biodiversity in managed forests but also for guidelines of forestry. peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Fennoscandian JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive Proceedings of the 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology |
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Fennoscandian forest management has since 1950s been characterized by forest regeneration through clear cutting, with subsequent top-soil preparation, seeding or planting with conifers, and removals of legacy elements important for biodiversity, such as dead wood. According to national Red Lists, this structural simplification in most Fennoscandian forests has made hundreds of species threatened. One possible way to support these species is continuous-cover forestry, where at least half of a stand is covered by mature or near-mature trees throughout the logging rotation. Such forestry might secure both economic benefits and support specialized forest species, but empirical evidence is largely lacking. Therefore, we collected beetles in Eastern Finnish Scots pine forests that represent a continuum from clear-cuts to different continuous-cover forestry techniques, combined with large-sized dead-wood increment, and unharvested mature forest ("control"). We used flight-intercept window traps one year before (2010) and seven years after logging (2011-17) to collect beetle data. We will present comparisons of the overall community, and specialized groups of saproxylic beetles, and associate these patterns with structural features of forest stands, particularly volume and diversity of live and dead trees and size of cleared gaps. Our results will shed light on relative merits of continuous-cover forestry and legacy elements from an ecological point of view. Such information is crucial not only for conservation of biodiversity in managed forests but also for guidelines of forestry. peerReviewed |
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