Vegetation succession following ride edge management in lowland plantations and woods. 1. The influence of site factors and management practices

Buckley, G. P.; Howell, R.; Watt, T. A.; Ferris-Kaan, R.; Anderson, Max

doi:10.1016/s0006-3207(97)00024-4

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“…Hill, 1979;Kiyono, 1990;Simmons and Buckley, 1992;Wallace et al, 1992;Wallace and Good, 1995;Buckley et al, 1997a;Nakagawa and Ito, 1997;Moore and Allen, 1999;Thomas et al, 1999;Brosofske et al, 2001;Euskirchen et al, 2001;Ito et al, 2003), as reviewed by Nagaike (2000) and Battles et al (2001). Some of these studies have referred to the importance of management history affecting the plant species diversity through the availability of seed banks (Buckley et al, 1997b).…”

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Effects of previous land-use on plant species diversity in semi-natural and plantation forests in a warm-temperate region in southeastern Kyushu, Japan

Ito

Nakayama

Buckley

2004

Forest Ecology and Management

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Effects of previous land-use on plant species diversity in semi-natural and plantation forests in a warm-temperate region in southeastern Kyushu, Japan

Ito

Nakayama

Buckley

2004

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…However, the role of natural forest adjacent to conifer plantations as the seed source has been little studied. The management history of the stand and its status as a first-or second-generation plantation crop may also affect the buried seed composition (Buckley et al 1997a) as well as the survival of above-ground, perennial vegetation, which thus may influence species richness.…”

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Species richness in sugi (Cryptomeria japonica D. DON) plantations in southeastern Kyushu, Japan: the effects of stand type and age on understory trees and shrubs

Ito

Nakagawa

Buckley

et al. 2003

Journal of Forest Research

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The species richness of trees, shrubs and climbing plants was investigated in 41 sugi (Cryptomeria japonica D. Don) plantations of different stand age and area in southern Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Altogether 174 species were found, of which 145 infrequent species were selected for analysis. Two groups were extracted from the species list according to their occurrence in older (49 spp.) or younger (28 spp.) stands, the latter containing a higher percentage of climbing plants and species with wind-dispersed seeds. In contrast, the older stand group contained major tree components typical of seminatural, evergreen broadleaved forests in the region and was more heavily dependent on stand age, especially for species with gravity-and frugivoredispersed seeds, showing a gradual increase up to 60 years old. The species richness was less correlated with edge perimeter facing seminatural forests and the years after latest thinning. The juxtaposition of plantation compartments with stands of seminatural forest or other plantations, as well as the compartment's origin as former plantation site or a seminatural stand, had relatively little influence on species richness. However, topographic variation was important in determining the species composition, with valley stands having higher species richness and containing many plants typical of the regional seminatural forests. These results suggest that (1) the major trend of species richness is determined by the presence of old stand type species, (2) topographic variation of species richness remains even after establishment of plantations, and (3) the normal rotation period of sugi plantations (35-40 years) may therefore be too short to conserve the maximum potential species diversity within the working forest.

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“…Large wind throw gaps also contribute to enhancing insect diversity in forest ecosystems (Bouget & Duelli, 2004). Therefore, although we should note that widening trails can sometimes lead to an increase in the numbers of non native plants (Buckley et al, 1997), creating sunlit spaces seem to be essential for enhancing biodiversity in temperate forests. Because stand-level plantation management is labour intensive (Cumming & Reid, 2008), labour and cost saving trail management options need to be explored in greater detail as a means of creating open areas and increase biodiversity in plantations in temperate regions.…”

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“…In temperate Japan, clearing coppice woods increases the abundance of not only butterfl ies that prefer open spaces, but also forest butterfl ies (Inoue, 2003). In addition, sunny forest stands, rides, tracks and glades in woodlands and plantations harbour a higher richness of herbaceous plants (Sparks et al, 1993;Buckley et al, 1997;Smith et al, 2007), butterfl ies (Warren, 1985;Greatorex-Davies, 1993;van Halder et al, 2011) and cerambycid and chrysomelid beetles (Ohsawa, 2004;Ohsawa & Nagaike, 2006) than shady stands, rides, tracks and glades. Large wind throw gaps also contribute to enhancing insect diversity in forest ecosystems (Bouget & Duelli, 2004).…”

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Associations between canopy openness, butterfly resources, butterfly richness and abundance along forest trails in planted and natural forests

Ohwaki¹,

Maeda²,

Kitahara³

et al. 2017

Eur. J. Entomol.

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Abstract. Increasing the biodiversity in plantations of trees is an important issue because plantations have replaced many natural and semi-natural ecosystems worldwide. Therefore, identifying appropriate management techniques and key factors for enhancing biodiversity in plantations is required. We surveyed butterfl y assemblages along forest trails in both plantations and natural forests and measured various environmental variables, including canopy, sub canopy and shrub stem densities, percentage of deciduous trees, fl ower plant richness, host plant richness, canopy openness and distance to forest edge. We hypothesized that (1) fl ower and host plant richness increase with an increase in the percentage of deciduous trees and canopy openness; (2) butterfl y richness and abundance increase with an increase in forest structural complexity, butterfl y resources, canopy openness and distance to forest edge; (3) the responses of plants and butterfl ies to canopy openness differ in plantations and natural forests; and (4) in plantations, tree-feeding butterfl ies respond to canopy openness less strongly than herbaceous plant feeding butterfl ies do because of the low diversity of trees in plantations. Our results generally support these hypotheses. Butterfl y resources and butterfl y richness and abundance all increase with increasing canopy openness; however, the increases were usually more dramatic in natural forests than in plantations and other factors are less important. In plantations, herbaceous plant feeding butterfl ies responded to increasing canopy openness more strongly than tree-feeding butterfl ies. The results of the present study indicate the importance of sunlit forest trails in enhancing butterfl y resources, butterfl y richness and abundance in plantations. Because at the stand-level management is labour-and cost-intensive, labour-and cost-saving trail management options need to be explored further in terms their effectiveness in increasing biodiversity in plantations.

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Vegetation succession following ride edge management in lowland plantations and woods. 1. The influence of site factors and management practices

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Effects of previous land-use on plant species diversity in semi-natural and plantation forests in a warm-temperate region in southeastern Kyushu, Japan

Effects of previous land-use on plant species diversity in semi-natural and plantation forests in a warm-temperate region in southeastern Kyushu, Japan

Species richness in sugi (Cryptomeria japonica D. DON) plantations in southeastern Kyushu, Japan: the effects of stand type and age on understory trees and shrubs

Associations between canopy openness, butterfly resources, butterfly richness and abundance along forest trails in planted and natural forests

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