Boreal carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in managed spruce forests – a summary of Finnish case studies

Short-term response of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) to fire and logging in a spruce-dominated boreal landscape

“…The landscape, as it evolved over the last hundreds of years, may not have been able to consistently sustain open-habitat specialists, and recent land use has not yet permitted infiltration of such species. Koivula and Niemelä (2002) have proposed several hypotheses to explain why forest generalists are in some cases common in logged stands. First, they suggested that some individuals might be wanderers from adjacent mature stands.…”

“…Short-term response of ground-dwelling arthropods to disturbance have been extensively studied (Seastedt and Crossley, 1981;Holliday, 1984;Martel et al, 1991;Saint-Germain and Mauffette, 2001;Wikars and Schimmel, 2001), particularly for ground beetles which have been widely used as indicators in relation to anthropogenic disturbances (Lenski, 1982;Niemelä et al, 1993;Spence et al, 1996;Beaudry et al, 1997;Heliölä et al, 2001;Koivula and Niemelä, 2002). However, they have seldom, if ever, been documented from both clearcuts and burns from the same landscape and from disturbances of the same age and thus exposed to the same recovery conditions.…”

Even-Aged and Uneven-Aged Forest Management in Boreal Fennoscandia: A Review

“…In a 4-year study Atlegrim et al (1997) reported no significant effects on carabid assemblages in response to different cutting treatments, except for a higher abundance of open-habitat species in clear cuts compared to the selection treatment. In a review of Finnish case studies Koivula and Niemelä (2002) argued that selection cuttings are beneficial for local (stand level) maintenance of carabid beetle assemblages.…”

Predicting the distribution of ground beetle species (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in Britain using land cover variables

“…Similar analyses have been undertaken with aquatic invertebrates (Malmqvist, 2002;Quinlan et al, 2002), flies (Delettre and Morvan, 2000), ants and spiders (Woinarski et al, 2002), saproxylic beetles in woodlands (Ranius, 2002;Similae et al, 2002) and dung beetles (Roslin, 2001). Ground beetles have also been extensively studied because they are easy to catch and are found throughout habitats such as wooded landscapes (Magura et al, 2003;Judas et al, 2002;Koivula and Niemelä, 2002), agricultural land (Kinnunen et al, 2001;Pena et al, 2003), grasslands (Niemelä and Baur, 1998;Vessby et al, 2002) and the urban environment (Andersen, 2000;Niemelä et al, 2002). Much of this research has been based on surveys of individual habitat types, but the diistribution and biodiversity of a number of invertebrate groups agricultural landscapes has also been investigated (Burel et al, 1998;Jeanneret et al, 2003).…”