Journal article
Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity
Nature Communications, Vol.11(1), Article number: 4762
2020
Abstract
Forests are increasingly affected by natural disturbances. Subsequent salvage logging, a widespread management practice conducted predominantly to recover economic capital, produces further disturbance and impacts biodiversity worldwide. Hence, naturally disturbed forests are among the most threatened habitats in the world, with consequences for their associated biodiversity. However, there are no evidence-based benchmarks for the proportion of area of naturally disturbed forests to be excluded from salvage logging to conserve biodiversity. We apply a mixed rarefaction/extrapolation approach to a global multi-taxa dataset from disturbed forests, including birds, plants, insects and fungi, to close this gap. We find that 75 ± 7% (mean ± SD) of a naturally disturbed area of a forest needs to be left unlogged to maintain 90% richness of its unique species, whereas retaining 50% of a naturally disturbed forest unlogged maintains 73 ± 12% of its unique species richness. These values do not change with the time elapsed since disturbance but vary considerably among taxonomic groups.
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- Title
- Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity
- Authors/Creators
- S. Thorn (Author/Creator) - University of WürzburgA. Chao (Author/Creator) - National Tsing Hua UniversityK.B. Georgiev (Author/Creator) - Bavarian Forest National ParkJ. Müller (Author/Creator) - Bavarian Forest National ParkC. Bässler (Author/Creator) - Goethe University FrankfurtJ.L. Campbell (Author/Creator) - Oregon State UniversityJ. Castro (Author/Creator) - Universidad de GranadaY-H Chen (Author/Creator) - National Tsing Hua UniversityC-Y Choi (Author/Creator) - Seoul National UniversityT.P. Cobb (Author/Creator) - Royal Alberta MuseumD.C. Donato (Author/Creator) - University of WashingtonE. Durska (Author/Creator) - Museum and Institute of ZoologyE. Macdonald (Author/Creator) - University of AlbertaH. Feldhaar (Author/Creator) - University of BayreuthJ.B. Fontaine (Author/Creator)P.J. Fornwalt (Author/Creator) - Rocky Mountain Research StationR.M.H. Hernández (Author/Creator) - Universidad de La LagunaR.L. Hutto (Author/Creator) - University of MontanaM. Koivula (Author/Creator) - Natural Resources Institute FinlandE-J Lee (Author/Creator) - Urban Planning Research Group, Daejeon Sejong Research Institute, Daejeon, 34863, Korea.D. Lindenmayer (Author/Creator) - Australian National UniversityG. Mikusinski (Author/Creator) - Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesM.K. Obrist (Author/Creator) - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape ResearchM. Perlík (Author/Creator) - Sewanee: The University of the SouthJ. Rost (Author/Creator) - Universitat de GironaK. Waldron (Author/Creator) - Natural Resources CanadaB. Wermelinger (Author/Creator) - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape ResearchI. Weiß (Author/Creator) - Rehtränke, 94481, Rosenau, Germany.M. Zmihorski (Author/Creator) - Mammal Research InstituteA.B. Leverkus (Author/Creator) - Universidad de Granada
- Publication Details
- Nature Communications, Vol.11(1), Article number: 4762
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Identifiers
- 991005542563007891
- Copyright
- © 2020 Springer Nature Limited
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Environmental and Conservation Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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