Effects of dispersed and aggregated retention-cuttings and differently sized clear-cuttings in conifer plantations on necrophagous silphid and dung beetle assemblages
Effects of dispersed and aggregated retention-cuttings and differently sized clear-cuttings in conifer plantations on necrophagous silphid and dung beetle assemblages
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针叶林人工林中分散和聚集的保留枝条以及不同大小的皆伐对食尸虫和粪甲虫群落的影响
DOI:
10.1007/s10841-022-00386-3
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
Sato Shigeho
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文献类型:
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作者:
Ueda Akira;Ito Hiroki;Sato Shigeho
Retention forestry and small-sized clear-cuttings are thought to partially mitigate the impacts of logging. To evaluate the impacts of these two harvesting methods, a variety of logging operations were conducted in mature Sakhalin fir plantation forests in Hokkaido, northern Japan. The stands were logged with the following approaches: dispersed retention of naturally regenerated broad-leaved trees in large (100 trees/ha), medium (50), or small (10) amounts; 60 × 60 m aggregated retention; quadrilateral small-sized (ca 1-ha) clear-cutting; and whole clear-cutting. We collected necrophagous silphid and dung beetles from these stands and from unharvested natural broad-leaved forests and plantation forests using carrion-baited pitfall traps. All logging operations clearly affected the beetle assemblages. The 0.36 ha unharvested forest patches under aggregated retention did not act as refugia for forest species because their assemblages were almost identical to those outside the forest patches and in the whole clear-cuts. However, the total abundance of forest species and, specifically, the abundances of two dominant forest species were significantly and positively related to the trunk basal area of retained trees in the dispersed retention sites. The total abundance of forest species was significantly higher in the small clear-cuts than in the whole clear-cuts. A dominant open-land species was abundant in the harvested areas irrespective of the type of logging operation. Thus, we concluded that dispersed retention and small-sized clear-cuttings were beneficial harvesting methods for the beetle conservation because they conserved forest species compared to whole clear-cuttings and preserved the habitats of open-land species as well as whole clear-cuttings.Implications for insect conservationOur results indicated that large areas of unharvested forest patches are needed to conserve the habitat of forest necrophagous silphid and dung beetles, most species of which are adept at flying. Our results also indicated that the higher density of retained trees in dispersed retention forestry and the smaller areas of clear-cuttings were better for conserving forest species. Our findings provide useful information for selecting methods and designs of logging practices for species protection of flying insects in logged areas.
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发表时间:
1975
期刊:
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影响因子:
--
作者:
H. Katakura;H. Fukuda
通讯作者:
H. Fukuda
影响因子:
0.9
作者:
Seizi Suzuki;N. Kobayashi;Tetsuya Kato;H. Katakura
通讯作者:
H. Katakura
影响因子:
5
作者:
Baker, Susan C.;Halpern, Charles B.;Strengbom, Joachim
通讯作者:
Strengbom, Joachim
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
K. Matveinen;J. Niemelä;H. Rita;R. O’Hara
通讯作者:
R. O’Hara
影响因子:
2
作者:
Ikeda, Hiroshi;Kubota, Kohei;Abe, Toshio
通讯作者:
Abe, Toshio