Biodiversity of soil macrofauna in the New Forest: a benchmark study across a national park landscape

Carpenter, Daniel; Hammond, Peter; Sherlock, Emma; A, Lidgett; Leigh, Kerry; Eggleton, Paul

doi:10.1007/s10531-012-0369-0

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“…These now include the most threatened or extinct species in the New Forest (Sanderson 2010). The National Park includes large areas of old growth forest as well as oak plantations ranging from c. 150 to[300 years old (Carpenter et al 2012), now maintained as wood pasture. In our study the major tree species included oak-Quercus petraea, Quercus robur (and hybrids of those two species), beech (Fagus sylvatica) and holly (Ilex aquifolium) together with a range of other native and introduced species at low densities.…”

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“…Fifteen woodland plots, already defined for a soil macrofauna survey (Carpenter et al 2012) representing deciduous woodland in old growth and plantation habitats and located within core and peripheral areas of the Park ( Fig. 1; Table 1) were selected.…”

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“…Plot age was defined from published records (Sanderson 2007;Carpenter et al 2012), with ancient woodland plots being assigned an arbitrary (large) age of 500 years (Table 1). Plots were defined as old growth or plantation and as isolated or within the central block of woodland (giving four categories: old growth core, old growth isolated, plantation core, plantation isolated).…”

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“…Plots were defined as old growth or plantation and as isolated or within the central block of woodland (giving four categories: old growth core, old growth isolated, plantation core, plantation isolated). Isolation and fragmentation was calculated for each of the plots using mapping data supplied by the Forestry Commission in ArcMap10 (Carpenter et al 2012). The size of the habitat fragments in which each of the plots was located was calculated, taking into consideration continuous and contiguous habitats and using an area calculation Forest type a ancient woodland, p plantation; is isolation, c core woodland, Avg.…”

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“…This landscape has provided us with an opportunity to investigate the distribution of lichen communities across the New Forest in both old growth and plantation woodlands, as well as the effects of isolation and fragmentation where changes in management practices have occurred within and around the forest. The establishment of 15 one ha plots in both old growth wood pasture and in enclosed plantation woodlands of the New Forest for quantitative soil macrofauna sampling (Carpenter et al 2012) provided a basic structure within which to undertake a quantitative survey of epiphytic lichens, to explore patterns of epiphytic lichen species density and composition, as well as their associated photobionts in relation to substrate, tree species and plot age and to correlate these with the effects of fragmentation and isolation of woodland sites in an area of lowland Britain where human population density has remained comparatively low.…”

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Patterns and drivers of lichen species composition in a NW-European lowland deciduous woodland complex

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We surveyed lichens in an extensive area of lowland deciduous oak and beech dominated forest under wood pasture management within the New Forest National Park, southern England. This provided the basis for an investigation of factors affecting the species density and composition of epiphytic lichen communities. Fifteen 1 hectare plots were established in the same sites as a parallel invertebrate survey, of which nine were in old growth forest and six in oak plantations of between c. 150 and 300 years old. In each plot 12 trees were identified for sampling and lichens were sampled on four aspects of each trunk. Results at the plot level showed that species density was significantly higher in the old growth woodland plots from those in plantations. Plot age had a significant effect on species on oak but this was not significant for lichen communities on beech. The species density of lichens associated with Trentepohliaceae photobionts on oaks showed a linear positive relationship with increasing plot age while the species density of species with other coccal green Chlorophyta decreased with age of the plot. A major part of the lichenised fungi with Trentepohliaceae photobionts includes indicator and notable species used in conservation evaluation and this component is most affected by fragmentation and isolation of forest sites. The results emphasise the importance of long term connectivity and ecological continuity in this extensive mosaic of lowland deciduous forest. Communicated by Pradeep Kumar Divakar.This article belongs to the Topical Collection: Forest and plantation biodiversity.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

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The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity.

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Ant diversity as a direct and indirect driver of pselaphine rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) functional diversity in tropical rainforests, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

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Pselaphinae is a species-rich beetle subfamily found globally, with many exhibiting myrmecophily-a symbiotic association with ants. Pselaphine-ant associations vary from facultative to obligate, but direct behavioral observations still remain scarce. Pselaphines are speciose and ecologically abundant within tropical leaf litter invertebrate communities where ants dominate, implying a potentially important ecological role that may be affected by habitat disturbances that impact ants. In this study, we measured and analyzed putative functional traits of leaf litter pselaphines associated with myrmecophily through morphometric analysis. We calculated "myrmecophile functional diversity" of pselaphines at different sites and examined this measure's relationship with ant abundance, in both old growth and logged rainforest sites in Sabah, Borneo. We show that myrmecophile functional diversity of pselaphine beetles increases as ant abundance increases. Old growth rainforest sites support a high abundance of ants, which is associated with a high abundance of probable myrmecophilous pselaphines. These results suggest a potential link between adult morphological characters and the functional role these beetles play in rainforest litter as ecological interaction partners with ants.

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Biodiversity of soil macrofauna in the New Forest: a benchmark study across a national park landscape

Cited by 18 publications

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Patterns and drivers of lichen species composition in a NW-European lowland deciduous woodland complex

Patterns and drivers of lichen species composition in a NW-European lowland deciduous woodland complex

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

Ant diversity as a direct and indirect driver of pselaphine rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) functional diversity in tropical rainforests, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

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