The effect of clear-cutting and wildfire on soil Oribatida (Acari) in windthrown stands of the High Tatra Mountains (Slovakia)

Lóšková, Jana; Ľuptáčik, Peter; Miklisová, Dana; Kováč, Ĺubomír

doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2013.01.001

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“…It was additionally found that the disturbance of forest soil and vegetation increased abundance of nematode communities in stands damaged by fire and stands left to natural succession, mostly due to colonizers or rstrategist species (Čerevková & Renčo 2009). It was also observed that extracting of windthrown timber following a windstorm was less favourable for communities of edaphic Collembola and slows down the recovery of communities (Čuchta et al 2012b), similar results being recorded for soil Oribatida (Lóšková et al 2013). Furthermore Čuchta et al (2012a) recorded that natural wild fire may increase abundance and species richness of edaphic Collembola in spruce forest previously damaged by windthrow.…”

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The effect of windthrow, wild fire, and management practices on epigeic Collembola in windthrown forest stands of the High Tatra Mts (Slovakia)

2013

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Epigeic communities of Collembola were studied after a windthrow in differently managed spruce forest stands in the High Tatras, Slovakia. Investigations were carried out in following treatments: reference forest stands (REF), windthrown stands left to natural regeneration (NEX), windthrown stands from which fallen wood had been extracted (EXT), and windthrown stands from which fallen wood had been removed and which had been affected by fire (FIR). A KruskalWallis nonparametric ANOVA revealed significant differences of Collembola community composition and activity between the treatments studied, which was also further supported by the results from NMS ordination and cluster analysis using indicator species analysis. EXT stands had communities with remarkably high activity and diversity of Collembola, whereas FIR stands had low species richness and diversity indices compared to other treatments (REF, NEX, EXT). Windthrown stands had greater collembolan activity and diversity (NEX, EXT) than intact forest stands. However, forest specialists and bryophilous species were sensitive to forest clearing and fire disturbance and were replaced by xeroresistant and generalist species, or species preferring open habitats. The collembolan community most similar to that found in REF stands, in terms of community homogeneity and the magnitude of diversity indices, was found in NEX stands.

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The effect of windthrow, wild fire, and management practices on epigeic Collembola in windthrown forest stands of the High Tatra Mts (Slovakia)

2013

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“…Negative impacts on earthworm biomass and diversity at sites with uprooted trees were reported from areas as different as Belgium and northern Iran (Nachtergale et al , 2002; Kooch & Hosseini, 2010). Another belowground species group that was reported to be negatively affected by windthrow (salvaged) and fire disturbance was Oribatida in the Slovakian High Tatra Mountains (Lóšková et al , 2013). However, a positive impact of fire was reported on soil collembolan diversity in a northern hardwood forest (Huebner, Lindo & Lechowicz, 2012) as well as on soil microbial communities in Spain (Fontúrbel et al , 2012), indicating that disturbances can have both positive and negative impacts on soil diversity.…”

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Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests

2015

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In many parts of the world forest disturbance regimes have intensified recently, and future climatic changes are expected to amplify this development further in the coming decades. These changes are increasingly challenging the main objectives of forest ecosystem management, which are to provide ecosystem services sustainably to society and maintain the biological diversity of forests. Yet a comprehensive understanding of how disturbances affect these primary goals of ecosystem management is still lacking. We conducted a global literature review on the impact of three of the most important disturbance agents (fire, wind, and bark beetles) on 13 different ecosystem services and three indicators of biodiversity in forests of the boreal, cool‐ and warm‐temperate biomes. Our objectives were to (i) synthesize the effect of natural disturbances on a wide range of possible objectives of forest management, and (ii) investigate standardized effect sizes of disturbance for selected indicators via a quantitative meta‐analysis. We screened a total of 1958 disturbance studies published between 1981 and 2013, and reviewed 478 in detail. We first investigated the overall effect of disturbances on individual ecosystem services and indicators of biodiversity by means of independence tests, and subsequently examined the effect size of disturbances on indicators of carbon storage and biodiversity by means of regression analysis. Additionally, we investigated the effect of commonly used approaches of disturbance management, i.e. salvage logging and prescribed burning. We found that disturbance impacts on ecosystem services are generally negative, an effect that was supported for all categories of ecosystem services, i.e. supporting, provisioning, regulating, and cultural services (P < 0.001). Indicators of biodiversity, i.e. species richness, habitat quality and diversity indices, on the other hand were found to be influenced positively by disturbance (P < 0.001). Our analyses thus reveal a ‘disturbance paradox’, documenting that disturbances can put ecosystem services at risk while simultaneously facilitating biodiversity. A detailed investigation of disturbance effect sizes on carbon storage and biodiversity further underlined these divergent effects of disturbance. While a disturbance event on average causes a decrease in total ecosystem carbon by 38.5% (standardized coefficient for stand‐replacing disturbance), it on average increases overall species richness by 35.6%. Disturbance‐management approaches such as salvage logging and prescribed burning were neither found significantly to mitigate negative effects on ecosystem services nor to enhance positive effects on biodiversity, and thus were not found to alleviate the disturbance paradox. Considering that climate change is expected to intensify natural disturbance regimes, our results indicate that biodiversity will generally benefit from such changes while a sustainable provisioning of ecosystem services might come increasingly under pressure. This underlines that dist...

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“…However, there is still lack of information about the relation of forests age classes and surface wildfires, which are very common in Central Europe. Nevertheless, the published studies that have been conducted in young (Jung et al 2010 ; Kim and Jung 2013 ) and mature forests (Kudryasheva and Laskova 2002 ; Camann et al 2007 ; Malmström 2008 ; Hylander 2011 ; Camann et al 2012 ; Malmström 2012 ; Lóšková et al 2013 ; Zaitsev et al 2014 ) did not show any pattern of the relationship between forest age and fire. This may result from studies done on different tree species (e.g.…”

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“…It can affect both the above ground part of the forest ecosystems by burning the shrubs and trees and also the soil environment (Buhk et al 2007 ; Certini 2005 ). The impact of fire on soil depends on many factors such as forest characteristics (amount, nature and moisture of life and dead fuel), climatic conditions (air temperature and humidity, wind spread), topography of the site and also fire type and severity (intensity and duration) (Lóšková et al 2013 ). Recent studies have indicated that the climatic changes (i.e.…”

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“…Previously published studies connecting fire and soil animal communities (Table 1 ) have focused on two aspects: the recovery process and the effect of various types of fires on soil fauna communities. The recovery process after the fire was investigated in short (until 1 year) (Badejo 1994 ; Camann et al 2007 ) versus long (for years) periods of time (Kudryasheva and Laskova 2002 ; Bogorodskaya et al 2010 ; Kim and Jung 2013 ), both after wildfire (Hylander 2011 ; Kim and Jung 2013 ; Lóšková et al 2013 ; Zaitsev et al 2014 ) or experimental burning (Bogorodskaya et al 2010 ; Camann et al 2012 ; Malmström 2012 ). There is also some research focusing on biodiversity as the effect of various types of fire (Michalik et al 2004 ; Jung et al 2010 ; Zaitsev et al 2014 ).…”

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Mite communities (Acari: Mesostigmata) in young and mature coniferous forests after surface wildfire

2017

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Density, diversity and assemblage structure of Mesostigmata (cohorts Gamasina and Uropodina) were investigated in Scots pine forests differing in forest age (young: 9–40 years and mature: 83–101 years) in which wildfire occurred. This animal group belongs to the dominant acarine predators playing a crucial role in soil food webs and being important as biological control agents. In total, six forests (three within young and three within mature stands) were inspected in Puszcza Knyszyńska Forest Complex in May 2015. At each forest area, sampling was done from burned and adjacent control sites with steel cylinders for heat extraction of soil fauna. Data were analyzed statistically with nested ANOVA. We found a significant effect on mite density of both fire and forest age, with more mites in mature forests and control plots. In total, 36 mite taxa were identified. Mite diversity differed significantly between forest ages but not between burned versus control. Our study indicated that all studied forests are characterized by unique mite species and that the mite communities are dominated by different mite species depending on age forest and surface wildfire occurrence. Finally, canonical correspondence analysis ranked the mite assemblages from control mature, through burned young and burned mature, away from the control young.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10493-017-0148-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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The effect of clear-cutting and wildfire on soil Oribatida (Acari) in windthrown stands of the High Tatra Mountains (Slovakia)

Cited by 25 publications

References 38 publications

The effect of windthrow, wild fire, and management practices on epigeic Collembola in windthrown forest stands of the High Tatra Mts (Slovakia)

The effect of windthrow, wild fire, and management practices on epigeic Collembola in windthrown forest stands of the High Tatra Mts (Slovakia)

Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests

Mite communities (Acari: Mesostigmata) in young and mature coniferous forests after surface wildfire

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