Diversity of saproxylic beetle species in logging residues in Sweden – Comparisons between tree species and diameters

Jonsell, Mats; Hansson, Jesper; Wedmo, Lena

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.04.003

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“…The effect reported for the diameter in the literature is variable. For instance, several studies found no relationship between diameter and decay rate [52,58,59], and other studies found that decomposition rate declined with increasing log diameter because of reduced surface-to-volume ratios [59][60][61]. Interestingly, our results show the opposite trend.…”

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Deadwood Decay in a Burnt Mediterranean Pine Reforestation

Molinas-González

Castro

Leverkus

2017

Forests

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Dead wood remaining after wildfires represents a biological legacy for forest regeneration, and its decay is both cause and consequence of a large set of ecological processes. However, the rate of wood decomposition after fires is still poorly understood, particularly for Mediterranean-type ecosystems. In this study, we analyzed deadwood decomposition following a wildfire in a Mediterranean pine plantation in the Sierra Nevada Natural and National Park (southeast Spain). Three plots were established over an elevational/species gradient spanning from 1477 to 2053 m above sea level, in which burnt logs of three species of pines were experimentally laid out and wood densities were estimated five times over ten years. The logs lost an overall 23% of their density, although this value ranged from an average 11% at the highest-elevation plot (dominated by Pinus sylvestris) to 32% at an intermediate elevation (with P. nigra). Contrary to studies in other climates, large-diameter logs decomposed faster than small-diameter logs. Our results provide one of the longest time series for wood decomposition in Mediterranean ecosystems and suggest that this process provides spatial variability in the post-fire ecosystem at the scale of stands due to variable speeds of decay. Common management practices such as salvage logging diminish burnt wood and influence the rich ecological processes related to its decay.

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Deadwood Decay in a Burnt Mediterranean Pine Reforestation

Molinas-González

Castro

Leverkus

2017

Forests

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“…Wood diameter has a strong effect on saproxylic (i.e. dead wood inhabiting) invertebrate communities (Grove 2002;Jonsell et al 2007), because it determines wood moisture content and the pool of available resources. Large-diameter wood pieces also support more and partly specific, fungal species (Kruys and Jonsson 1999;Nordén and Paltto 2001), on which many wood inhabiting invertebrate species depend (Grove 2002).…”

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Controls on Coarse Wood Decay in Temperate Tree Species: Birth of the LOGLIFE Experiment

Cornelissen¹,

Sass‐Klaassen

Poorter

et al. 2012

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Dead wood provides a huge terrestrial carbon stock and a habitat to wide-ranging organisms during its decay. Our brief review highlights that, in order to understand environmental change impacts on these functions, we need to quantify the contributions of different interacting biotic and abiotic drivers to wood decomposition. LOG-LIFE is a new long-term 'common-garden' experiment to disentangle the effects of species' wood traits and siterelated environmental drivers on wood decomposition dynamics and its associated diversity of microbial and invertebrate communities. This experiment is firmly rooted in pioneering experiments under the directorship of Terry Callaghan at Abisko Research Station, Sweden. LOGLIFE features two contrasting forest sites in the Netherlands, each hosting a similar set of coarse logs and branches of 10 tree species. LOGLIFE welcomes other researchers to test further questions concerning coarse wood decay that will also help to optimise forest management in view of carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation.

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“…The importance for saproxylic beetles of standing dead trees and large branches on the ground belonging to first class decay is probably related to high abundance of wood-boring beetles that colonized exposed areas of hard dead wood such as bark beetles and the horned powder-post beetles captured by traps. Regarding the importance of large branches on the ground, previous studies showed that they harbour the same number of invertebrate species found in corresponding volumes of small branches (Schiegg 2001, Jonsell 2007. However, when the species richness is more or less similar on small and large pieces of dead wood, the species assemblages may consist of different species in each diameter class.…”

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Bird and beetle assemblages in relict beech forests of central Italy: a multi-taxa approach to assess the importance of dead wood in biodiversity conservation

Zan¹,

Battisti²,

Carpaneto³

2014

Community Ecology

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Abstract:The awareness of the importance of deadwood in forest ecosystems has increased in recent decades. Today, dead wood is recognized as a key factor affecting diversity of forest communities. Hole-nesting birds and saproxylic organisms represent an active part of the animal community through the recycle of decaying wood into the forest soils. Three relict beech forests of central Italy were surveyed for both saproxylic beetles and hole-nesting birds, using two different types of interception traps for the former group and point count method for the latter. The variables of dead wood quality were recorded from ten plots, particularly the decaying class and typology of all the wood debris with a diameter ≥ 5 cm. In order to correlate richness and abundance of beetles and birds in a symmetric way, we used co-inertia analysis (CoIA). To correlate in a predictive way the dead wood attributes (dead wood typology and class decay) with birds and beetles assemblages we used partial redundancy analysis (RDA). Our results showed a significant relationship between saproxylic beetle and hole-nesting bird communities. Three dead wood variables (the volume of standing dead trees, stumps and large branches on the ground) appeared to be good predictors of saproxylic beetle richness while the volume of standing dead tree and of dead trees on the ground were the same for hole-nesting birds. These results suggest specific recommendations useful for forest management and planning. for plants.

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Diversity of saproxylic beetle species in logging residues in Sweden – Comparisons between tree species and diameters

Cited by 129 publications

References 27 publications

Deadwood Decay in a Burnt Mediterranean Pine Reforestation

Deadwood Decay in a Burnt Mediterranean Pine Reforestation

Controls on Coarse Wood Decay in Temperate Tree Species: Birth of the LOGLIFE Experiment

Bird and beetle assemblages in relict beech forests of central Italy: a multi-taxa approach to assess the importance of dead wood in biodiversity conservation

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