Investigating residual effects of selective logging on ant species assemblages in Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka

Gunawardene, Nihara; Majer, Jonathan; Edirisinghe, Jayanthi P.

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2009.11.012

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“…Decreases in species richness of ants have frequently been identified after major alterations of various types of forests, followed by a further increase as time passes and vegetation recovers (Puntilla et al, 1991;Vasconcelos, 1999;Watt et al, 2002). Sometimes, though, these differences in species richness in situations similar to ours (selective logging) have been small and not significant (Gunawardene et al, 2010;Vasconcelos et al, 2000).…”

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“…Both groups, Opportunists and Hot Climate Specialists, have been associated with disturbed habitats (Andersen, 1991;Bestelmeyer and Wiens, 1996;Gómez et al, 2003), and perhaps in this case, we are showing just a continued but controlled level of disturbance of these forests. As in other similar situations, selective logging is still practiced and has had the potential to permanently alter the composition of ant fauna (Gunawardene et al, 2010).…”

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“…c o m / l o c a t e / f o r e c o Ottonetti et al, 2006;Stephens and Wagner, 2006). In those programs ants have been used to monitor the effects of forest management practices such as selective logging and clearing, subsequent habitat recovery processes, or the subsequent land use of forest clearings (Gunawardene et al, 2010;Maeto and Sato, 2004;Nakamura et al, 2007;Palladini et al, 2007;Stephens and Wagner, 2006). Ants are an important component of the animal biomass and act as relevant ecosystem engineers (Folgarait, 1998).…”

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“…They have been included in monitoring programs associated with human activities around the world (Andersen et al, 2002;Bestelmeyer and Wiens, 1996;Gunawardene et al, 2010;Majer, 1983;Nakamura et al, 2007;Read and Andersen, 2000; …”

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Selective logging in public pine forests of the central Iberian Peninsula: Effects of the recovery process on ant assemblages

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2011

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Selective logging in public pine forests of the central Iberian Peninsula: Effects of the recovery process on ant assemblages

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2011

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“…Our findings of no overall changes in total species richness and abundance of ground‐dwelling beetles between selectively logged and unlogged stands and high proportion of habitat generalists partly supported this hypothesis. But consistent with many studies (e.g., Altegrim et al ., ; Lewis, ; Koivula, ; Ulyshen et al ., ; Gunawardene et al ., ), we also identified negative responses of saproxylic beetles to selective logging, and some specialists preferred unlogged forests, especially in the understory re‐initiation stage. Therefore, selective logging advocated as an efficient way to preserve biodiversity should be treated with caution in subtropical forest ecosystems.…”

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Does selective logging change ground‐dwelling beetle assemblages in a subtropical broad‐leafed forest of China?

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Lü

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Insect Science

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Selective logging with natural regeneration is advocated as a near-to-nature strategy and has been implemented in many forested systems during the last decades. However, the efficiency of such practices for the maintenance of forest species are poorly understood. We compared the species richness, abundance and composition of ground-dwelling beetles between selectively logged and unlogged forests to evaluate the possible effects of selective logging in a subtropical broad-leafed forest in southeastern China. Using pitfall traps, beetles were sampled in two naturally regenerating stands after clearcuts (ca. 50 years old, stem-exclusion stage: selectively logged 20 years ago) and two mature stands (> 80 years old, understory re-initiation stage: selectively logged 50 years ago) during 2009 and 2010. Overall, selective logging had no significant effects on total beetle richness and abundance, but saproxylic species group and some abundant forest species significantly decreased in abundance in selectively logged plots compared with unlogged plots in mature stands. Beetle assemblages showed significant differences between selectively logged and unlogged plots in mature stands. Some environmental characteristics associated with selective logging (e.g., logging strategy, stand age, and cover of shrub and moss layers) were the most important variables explaining beetle assemblage structure. Our results conclude that selective logging has no significant impacts on overall richness and abundance of ground-dwelling beetles. However, the negative effects of selective logging on saproxylic species group and some unlogged forest specialists highlight the need for large intact forested areas for sustaining the existence of forest specialist beetles.

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Contu

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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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Investigating residual effects of selective logging on ant species assemblages in Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka

Cited by 27 publications

References 50 publications

Selective logging in public pine forests of the central Iberian Peninsula: Effects of the recovery process on ant assemblages

Selective logging in public pine forests of the central Iberian Peninsula: Effects of the recovery process on ant assemblages

Does selective logging change ground‐dwelling beetle assemblages in a subtropical broad‐leafed forest of China?

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

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