Käferkämpfe: Borkenkäfer und Landschaftskonflikte im Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald

Müller, Martín; Imhof, Nadja

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-22325-0_19

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“…Asking national park visitors in different European national parks, Kortmann et al (2021) [72] showed that the perceived restorativeness in disturbed landscapes was surprisingly high. In addition, after severe natural disturbances in the Bavarian Forest National Park, visitor numbers remained high in the following years [73]. Hence, visitors might learn that dead wood in a forest landscape does not reduce their recreational experience.…”

Section: National Park Visits Promote Well-being In Disturbed Landscapesmentioning

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Disturbance Severity and Human–Nature Relationships: A New Approach to Analyze People’s Well-Being along a Bark Beetle Infestation Gradient

Kortmann

Angelstam

Mayer

et al. 2022

Forests

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Contact to nature and greenspace is important for emotional well-being and can promote human health. Forest landscapes provide such access to greenspace, especially in protected areas. However, forested protected areas are impacted by natural disturbances such as bark beetle infestations. On the one hand, such disturbances have positive impacts on ecological processes and biodiversity. On the other hand, they have allegedly negative impacts on the recreational value of a landscape. Limited knowledge about the public’s perception of forests subject to natural disturbances still hampers forest management to balance ecological functions and visitors’ recreational experience. Thus, our aim was to determine how attitudes towards nature influence the personal well-being in a naturally disturbed landscape. We investigated self-reported well-being and attitudes towards nature in a standardized questionnaire-based survey of 1008 German inhabitants in an experimentally adapted landscape visualization. Self-reported well-being was generally highest in landscapes with relatively few bark-beetle-killed trees. This was especially the case for people who felt included with nature and preferred an appreciative use or preservation of nature. Conversely, people who had previously visited a national park with visible bark beetle infestations rated their personal well-being highest in landscapes with larger proportions of beetle-killed trees. Our results indicate that it is necessary to analyze people’s knowledge about and relations to forest landscapes as well as concepts of nature conservation, natural landscapes, and biodiversity to gain a better understanding of people’s perceptions of natural disturbances.

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Section: National Park Visits Promote Well-being In Disturbed Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disturbance Severity and Human–Nature Relationships: A New Approach to Analyze People’s Well-Being along a Bark Beetle Infestation Gradient

Kortmann

Angelstam

Mayer

et al. 2022

Forests

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Debarking harvesters simultaneously combat the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) and conserve non‐target beetle diversity

Zarges,

Wohlert,

Kamp

et al. 2024

Ecol Sol and Evidence

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In the face of climate change, the European Spruce Bark Beetle (Ips typographus) breeding predominantly in Norway spruce (Picea abies) led to exceptional amounts of damaged timber in European forests. Up to now, if pest control is applied, damaged or weakened P. abies trees are either extracted by salvage logging or, when quantities are low, made unsuitable for breeding by manual debarking techniques. Both pest control interventions are costly, are often limited by the short timeframe of effectiveness and come with negative impacts on the non‐target biodiversity. As alternatives for timely removal, a debarking head for harvesters for large scale disturbances and a bark gouging device for motor‐manual treatment have been developed in recent years to make breeding material unsuitable for bark beetles and reduce existing larvae. Based on data from an experimental design with infested Norway spruce logs, we show that the harvester debarking head and the motor‐manual bark gouging regulate I. typographus populations efficiently, whereas a conventional harvester did not reduce the emerging bark beetles. Species assemblages of non‐target beetles living in the infested Norway spruce logs were altered from the natural species assemblages in control logs by processing logs with the debarking head or the bark gouging device but not by the conventional harvester. None of the bark treatments reduced non‐target beetle species richness in this experiment. Practical implication. We endorse the debarking head and bark gouging as alternatives to salvage logging and manual debarking. This uncouples pest control from in‐time dependencies on the availability of transport capacities. The debarking head and bark gouging open up the opportunity to retain dead wood biomass in the forest, supporting ecological benefits and conservation goals. Particularly for protected areas these two new management options better balance requirements of pest control and biodiversity conservation.

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Spatial Developments in Germany: Persistences, New Differences and the Effort for Unity

Kühne

Weber

2022

World Regional Geography Book Series

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Käferkämpfe: Borkenkäfer und Landschaftskonflikte im Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

Disturbance Severity and Human–Nature Relationships: A New Approach to Analyze People’s Well-Being along a Bark Beetle Infestation Gradient

Disturbance Severity and Human–Nature Relationships: A New Approach to Analyze People’s Well-Being along a Bark Beetle Infestation Gradient

Debarking harvesters simultaneously combat the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) and conserve non‐target beetle diversity

Spatial Developments in Germany: Persistences, New Differences and the Effort for Unity

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