Habitat preferences of oak-feeding xylophagous beetles in a temperate woodland: implications for forest history and management

Vodka, Štěpán; Konvička, Martin; Čížek, Lukáš

doi:10.1007/s10841-008-9202-1

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“…The positive effect that big oak trees have on biodiversity has previously been described on many sites (Ranius et al 2009;Lassauce et al 2012;Bouget et al 2014). Some studies consider sun-exposed dead branches more important for biodiversity of saproxylic beetles than the remaining dead branches (Vodka et al 2009;Horak et al 2014). However, all types of dead branches are more important for this group of organisms than live branches.…”

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Crowns of "forgotten" standards in hardwood floodplain forests

Šálek¹,

Machar²,

Sıvacıoğlu³

et al. 2017

J. For. Sci.

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AbstractŠálek L., Machar I., Sivacioğlu A., Zahradník D., Simon J., Jeřábková L. (2017): Crowns of "forgotten" standards in hardwood floodplain forests. J. For. Sci., 63: 538-548.Floodplain forests have traditionally been managed using the coppice-with-standards silvicultural system for centuries. After abandoning this silvicultural system approximately in the 1950s the crown of standards (mature-aged trees) developed gradually under the growing influence of their tree competitors. This study examines the crowns of remnant oak and ash standards in a hardwood floodplain forest along the Morava River in the Czech Republic. 100 oak (Quercus robur Linnaeus) standards and 100 ash (Fraxinus excelsior Linnaeus) standards were randomly selected and the basic mensuration data as well as some ecological data, such as number of large dead branches, cavities, and height of the lowest large dead and green branches, were measured. The four nearest neighbour competitors were identified for each standard, and their height, distance and azimuth were measured. The DBH of the analysed oak standards ranged between 71 and 148 cm, and the projected oak crown area ranged between 125 and 533 m 2 . The ash DBH ranged between 71 and 127 cm, and projected ash crowns between 194 and 620 m 2 . To assess competitive pressure, we calculated an index as a ratio of the tangents of angles of regular and compressed crowns. Distance of competing trees was more important than their height in the ash data set, but not in the oak data set.

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“…The presence of dead wood in crowns is also important, although to a lesser extent, for biodiversity of oak-feeding xylophagous beetles (Vodka et al 2009). At the same time, some studies stress that open forests, open landscape and semi-open woodland pastures enhance the biodiversity of organisms dependent on dead wood (Franc, Götmark 2008;Horak et al 2014).…”

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Crowns of "forgotten" standards in hardwood floodplain forests

Šálek¹,

Machar²,

Sıvacıoğlu³

et al. 2017

J. For. Sci.

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“…Therefore, forest management of SCIs should aim at maintaining or restoring the typical biological diversity associated with habitat structure and functions, with appropriate management plans (Article 6). How habitat structure and associated saproxylic beetle communities should be maintained or restored is a challenging question (Vodka et al 2008, Sebek et al 2013, with particular e) The conservation status of a natural habitat will be taken as "favourable" when: -its natural range and areas it covers within that range are stable or increasing and -the specific structure and functions which are necessary for its long-term maintenance exist and are likely to continue to exist for the foreseeable future and -the conservation status of its typical species is favourable as defined in (i); i) The conservation status will be taken as "favourable" when: -population dynamics data on the species concerned indicate that it is maintaining itself on a long-term basis as a viable component of its natural habitats and -the natural range of the species is neither being reduced nor is likely to be reduced for the foreseeable future and -there is, and will probably continue to be, a sufficiently large habitat to maintain its populations on a long-term basis; reference to the Mediterranean basin which has high and poorly known levels of diversity and endemism (Baselga 2008). The long lasting association of C. cerdo with old and decaying trees (Buse et al 2007(Buse et al , 2008a suggests that trees colonised by C. cerdo represent keystone structures (Tews et al 2004) to maintain saproxylic diversity and functions associated with Mediterranean protected oak habitats (Sirami et al 2008).…”

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“…Due to past forest exploitation, old growth forests are rare in the Mediterranean basin (Blondel andAronson 1999, Scarascia-Mugnozza et al 2000), suggesting the need of delimiting non-intervention areas within the Natura 2000 network to "re-wilding" landscapes (Schnitzler 2014). However, in central European countries, the C. cerdo and other saproxylic beetles have been found to be associated with sun-exposed wood located near ground (Buse et al 2007, Albert et al 2013, Oleksa and Klejdysz 2017 and could benefit from the restoration of traditional management practices such as coppice with standards or woodland pastures (Buse et al 2007, Vodka et al 2008). Retention forestry is also emerging as a practical way to harvest forest and maintain or restore old-growth features of landscapes (Fedrowitz et al 2014, Mason andZapponi 2015).…”

Section: Managing Cerambyx Cerdo and Mediterranean Oaks Under The Habmentioning

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Monitoring and management of Cerambyx cerdo in the Mediterranean region – a review and the potential role of citizen science

Casula¹

2017

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The Great Capricorn beetle, Cerambyx cerdo, and Mediterranean oak habitats (Quercus ilex -9340 and Quercus suber -9330) are protected by the Habitats Directive (HD). However, in the Mediterranean basin, these habitats are also traditionally used for animal, wood, and cork productions. Cerambyx cerdo feeds into the wood of trees and can be perceived by forest practitioners as an umbrella species or as a pest, depending on the context. Monitoring programmes involving forest practitioners could thus focus on assessing: 1) the conservation status of the Great Capricorn beetle and habitats (distribution and abundance of insects and reproductive sites or colonised trees), 2) pest status, and 3) management options to achieve both conservational and economic benefits. Considering that Cerambyx cerdo and Cork and Holm oak forests are not priority species or habitats under the HD, targeted funding is likely to be limited for monitoring. In this context, citizen science could gather important information on the target species useful for the monitoring programmes and management. To address management questions, the citizen science based programme for Cerambyx cerdo monitoring and habitat conservation should be seen not only as citizens collecting good data sets, but also as a deeper collaboration amongst different knowledge bodies and perspectives within a community -based environmental monitoring and learning network.

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“…Throughout the time of decomposition, decaying wood provides shelter and habitat for a large number of organisms [1][2][3][4], guarantees nutrient availability and turnover [5][6][7], defines carbon residence time and sequestration [8,9], enhances soil moisture [10], and determines the vertical and horizontal physical structure of the habitat as snags or fallen logs [11][12][13][14]. All these processes, both singly and in synergic combination, deeply influence other ecosystem processes, ranging from the performance of individual plants to landscape-scale biodiversity and even biogeochemical cycles [15][16][17][18][19][20].…”

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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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Habitat preferences of oak-feeding xylophagous beetles in a temperate woodland: implications for forest history and management

Cited by 154 publications

References 59 publications

Crowns of "forgotten" standards in hardwood floodplain forests

Crowns of "forgotten" standards in hardwood floodplain forests

Monitoring and management of Cerambyx cerdo in the Mediterranean region – a review and the potential role of citizen science

Deadwood Decay in a Burnt Mediterranean Pine Reforestation

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