Effects of compound disturbance on Canada lynx and snowshoe hare: Wildfire and forest management influence timing and intensity of use

Olson, Lucretia E.; Crotteau, Justin S.; Fox, Shelagh; Hanvey, Gary; Holbrook, Joseph D.; Jackson, Scott M.; Squires, John R.

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120757

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“…The diet and predation success of many carnivores was influenced by production forests. Some studies reported higher hunting success (Bojarska et al 2017, Ausilio et al 2022) or higher prey availability (Soutiere 1979, Boisjoly et al 2010, Parsons et al 2020) for carnivores in harvested than unharvested native forest, which sometimes caused them to select this habitat (Simons-Legaard et al 2016, Gagné et al 2016, Roffler et al 2018, Olson et al 2023) but not always (Hargis et al 1999). In other cases prey availability or hunting success was lower in harvested than unharvested native forest (Andruskiw et al 2008, Rayan & Linkie 2015, Jiang et al 2017).…”

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A systematic global review of mammalian carnivore responses to production forests

Jones

Koch

Hamede

et al. 2023

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1. Unmodified forests are increasingly rare worldwide, with forestry a major contributor to habitat modification. Extending conservation practices beyond protected areas is important to conserve forest ecosystems. 2. We investigate the response of native mammalian carnivores (both Order Carnivora and Family Dasyuridae) to production forests globally, including harvested native forest and timber plantations. We examine how carnivores recorded in production forests use these forests versus other land uses, particularly native and unharvested forest; how habitat use relates to threatened status, body size, diet, and harvesting method; carnivore responses to habitat features within production forests; and carnivore denning, breeding, and predation behaviour in production forests. 3. We review 294 studies recording 132 carnivore species in production forests. Carnivores generally show higher use of native and unharvested forests and lower use of agricultural land than production forests. Threatened species and large carnivores respond more negatively to production forests than non-threatened species and small carnivores respectively. Hypercarnivores respond more negatively than omnivores to plantations compared to native forest, but there was no difference in the use of harvested and unharvested native forest between these dietary groups. 4. Surprisingly, a high proportion of carnivore species use clearfelled more than unharvested native forest. In forest with partial harvesting or reduced-impact logging, most species show no difference in use between harvested and unharvested forest. 5. Carnivores generally respond positively to habitat features such as riparian areas and coarse woody debris. Several carnivores were recorded denning and breeding in production forests. Production forests often influence the prey availability, hunting success, and diet of carnivores. 6. We show that many carnivores use production forests, and how they respond to production forestry varies with species traits. We recommend that production forests are managed as valuable carnivore habitat, and highlight strategies to enhance the use of these forests by carnivores.

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confidence: 99%

A systematic global review of mammalian carnivore responses to production forests

Jones

Koch

Hamede

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…The diet and predation success of many carnivores was influenced by production forestry. Some studies reported higher hunting success (Bojarska et al 2017, Ausilio et al 2022 or higher prey availability (Soutiere 1979, Boisjoly et al 2010, Parsons et al 2020 for carnivores in harvested than unharvested native forest, which sometimes caused them to select this habitat (Gagné et al 2016, Simons-Legaard et al 2016, Roffler et al 2018, Olson et al 2023) but not always (Hargis et al 1999). In other cases, prey availability or hunting success was lower in harvested than unharvested native forest (Andruskiw et al 2008, Rayan & Linkie 2015, Jiang et al 2017.…”

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A systematic global review of mammalian carnivore responses to production forests

Jones,

Koch,

Hamede

et al. 2023

Mammal Review

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Unmodified forests are increasingly rare worldwide, with forestry a major contributor to habitat modification. Extending conservation practices beyond protected areas is important to conserve forest ecosystems. We investigate the response of native mammalian carnivores (both Order Carnivora and Family Dasyuridae) to production forests globally, including harvested native forest and timber plantations. We examine how carnivores recorded in production forests use these forests versus other land uses, particularly native and/or unharvested forest; how habitat use relates to threatened status, body size, diet and harvesting method; carnivore responses to habitat features within production forests; and carnivore denning, breeding and predation behaviour in production forests. We review 294 studies recording 132 carnivore species in production forests. Carnivores generally show higher use of unharvested native forests and lower use of agricultural land than production forests. Threatened species and large carnivores respond more negatively to production forests than non‐threatened species and small carnivores respectively. Hypercarnivores respond more negatively than omnivores to plantations compared to native forest, with no difference in the use of harvested and unharvested native forest between these dietary groups. Notably, a high proportion of carnivore species use clearfelled more than unharvested native forest. In forest with partial harvesting or reduced‐impact logging, most species show no difference in use between harvested and unharvested forest. Carnivores generally respond positively to habitat features such as riparian areas and coarse woody debris. Several carnivores were recorded denning and breeding in production forests. Production forests often influence the prey availability, hunting success and diet of carnivores. We show that many carnivores use production forests, and how they respond to production forestry varies with species traits and conservation status. We recommend that production forests are managed as valuable carnivore habitat, and highlight strategies to enhance the use of these forests by carnivores.

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Wildfire influences species assemblage and habitat utilisation of boreal wildlife after more than a decade in northern Sweden

Fredriksson,

Cromsigt,

Hofmeester

2024

Wildlife Biology

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Fires can strongly change the vegetation structure and the availability of resources for wildlife, but fire suppression has long affected the natural role of fire in shaping boreal ecosystems in northern Europe. Recently, wildfires have increased in frequency, possibly due to global warming. In contrast to the boreal systems in North America, there have been few studies on responses of wildlife to wildfires in northern Europe. Based on the findings from North America, we predict that responses of wildlife to wildfire vary among wildlife species: where mammalian herbivores, such as moose Alces alces and mountain hare Lepus timidus, will be attracted to burnt areas following an increase in food availability, other species, such as reindeer Rangifer tarandus, are negatively impacted due to fire reducing their preferred food. We then tested our predictions by contrasting wildlife utilization of sites that burnt by wildfire in 2006 with nearby unburnt control sites in three areas in northern Sweden. To measure wildlife utilization, we used 72 camera traps, equally divided between the burnt and control sites, with two placement strategies: random and on wildlife trails. The cameras recorded 27 mammal and bird species during summer 2018. Species assemblage differed between burnt and control sites. Fieldfare Turdus pilaris used burnt sites more than control sites, while pine marten Martes martes and western capercaillie Tetrao urogallus used control sites more than burnt sites. We however did not find support for a positive effect of past forest fires on any of the observed wild mammals. We discuss how, due to the impact of forestry, forage‐rich habitat may not be as limiting in Scandinavia as in the North‐American context, potentially leading to recently burnt sites being less attractive to herbivores such as moose.

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Effects of compound disturbance on Canada lynx and snowshoe hare: Wildfire and forest management influence timing and intensity of use

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A systematic global review of mammalian carnivore responses to production forests

A systematic global review of mammalian carnivore responses to production forests

A systematic global review of mammalian carnivore responses to production forests

Wildfire influences species assemblage and habitat utilisation of boreal wildlife after more than a decade in northern Sweden

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