Deadwood Decay in a Burnt Mediterranean Pine Reforestation

Molinas-González, Carlos R.; Castro, Jorge; Leverkus, Alexandro B.

doi:10.3390/f8050158

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“…Therefore, the colonization patterns of deadwood decomposing microorganisms are of pivotal importance for mass loss. While the effect of the deadwood decaying fungal communities during the conversion from forest habitats to grassland habitats by diebacks (Fukasawa et al, 2019) or after wildfires (Molinas-González et al, 2017) has been studied, knowledge on deadwood decay in grassland, which is less connected to the forest source of wood decomposing organisms, is so far scarce. Recently a study on the same Swabian-Alb plots showed that fungi were superior in the colonization of mineral grassland plots.…”

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Drivers of deadwood decay of 13 temperate tree species are similar between forest and grassland habitats

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Deadwood provides an important carbon source in forests and wooded ecosystems and, accordingly, forest management strategies discuss the enrichment of deadwood amount and diversity by different tree species. To investigate the decomposition processes of enriched deadwood, we simultaneously placed 3,669 size-standardized and gamma sterilized wood specimens of 13 tree species (Populus tremula, Tilia cordata, Prunus avium, Betula pendula, Carpinus betulus, Fraxinus excelsior, Quercus robur, Fagus sylvatica, Acer platanoides, Larix decidua, Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies, and Pseudotsuga menziesii) at a total of 300 forest and grassland plots in three regions in Germany covering large gradients of management intensity and environmental conditions. After 1 year, mass loss was calculated and its relationship with wood traits and environmental conditions was assessed to determine the most important factors. Mass loss was overall higher in forest compared to grassland habitats, with wood traits as the most important driver, followed by region and environmental factors related to microclimate. However, management intensity was less relevant to explain the mass loss in both habitats. Our results suggest that decomposition of enriched deadwood, even after removal of endophytes, is influenced by the same drivers (positively by moisture and abundance of macronutrients, negatively by lignin and phenol concentration) as naturally occurring wood. Furthermore, due to the immense and standardized experimental setting, our study contributes to a better understanding of the important drivers of mass loss in different tree species and thus provides the basis for predictions of the carbon cycle in a changing world.

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Drivers of deadwood decay of 13 temperate tree species are similar between forest and grassland habitats

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Maurer

Goßner

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“…Standing trees can act as habitat for species that live in tree hollows (Lindenmayer and Possingham 1996) and as perches or visual cues for seed dispersers (Castro et al 2012;Cavallero et al 2013). Deadwood constitutes a pool of nutrients that is released to the soil in the mid and long terms through decomposition (Marañón-Jiménez and Castro 2013;Molinas-González et al 2017a). It can also ameliorate microclimatic conditions to enhance tree regeneration (Castro et al 2011) and help reduce herbivory by large ungulates (Leverkus et al 2015b).…”

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

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Wildfires, insect outbreaks, and windstorms are increasingly common forest disturbances. Post-disturbance management often involves salvage logging, i.e., the felling and removal of the affected trees; however, this practice may represent an additional disturbance with effects on ecosystem processes and services. We developed a systematic map to provide an overview of the primary studies on this topic and created a database with information on the characteristics of the retrieved publications, including information on stands, disturbance, intervention, measured outcomes, and study design. Of 4341 retrieved publications, 90 were retained in the systematic map. These publications represented 49 studies, predominantly from North America and Europe. Salvage logging after wildfire was addressed more frequently than after insect outbreaks or windstorms. Most studies addressed logging after a single disturbance event, and replication of salvaged stands rarely exceeded 10. The most frequent response variables were tree regeneration, ground cover, and deadwood characteristics. This document aims to help managers find the most relevant primary studies on the ecological effects of salvage logging. It also aims to identify and discuss clusters and gaps in the body of evidence, relevant for scientists who aim to synthesize previous work or identify questions for future studies.

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“…Other important variables to consider are fire and drought. There are very few studies comparing decomposition of WD that has been partially burned or not (Boulanger, Sirois, & Hebert, ; Molinas‐González, Castro, & Leverkus, ), even though fire resistance of trees has been linked to bark thickness (Charles‐Dominique, Midgley, & Bond, ; Pausas, ; Pellegrini et al., ).…”

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The cover uncovered: Bark control over wood decomposition

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1. Woody debris (WD) represents a globally significant carbon stock and its decomposition returns nutrients to the soil while providing habitat to microbes, plants and animals. Understanding what drives WD decomposition is therefore important.2. WD decomposition rates differ greatly among species. However, the role of bark in the process remains poorly known.3. We ask how, and how much, interspecific variation in bark functional traits related to growth and protection have afterlife effects on the decomposition of wood, partly mediated by animals. We examine the roles of bark cover and bark traits throughout the wood decomposition process. 4.Synthesis. We find that: (1) bark effects on WD decomposition are species-and wood size-specific, (2) bark can enhance coarser WD decomposition but slows twig decomposition in some species, and (3) bark acts as an environmental filter to faunal assemblages in the early stage of wood decomposition. We highlight the need to account for bark effects on WD decomposition and offer an important complementary contribution to including woody species identity effects in biogeochemical and climate-change models via species bark traits. K E Y W O R D Sarthropod, bark traits, carbon cycling, coarse woody debris, decomposition, ecosystem function, fungi, species identity effect

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Deadwood Decay in a Burnt Mediterranean Pine Reforestation

Cited by 10 publications

References 60 publications

Drivers of deadwood decay of 13 temperate tree species are similar between forest and grassland habitats

Drivers of deadwood decay of 13 temperate tree species are similar between forest and grassland habitats

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

The cover uncovered: Bark control over wood decomposition

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