The importance of substrate type, shading and scorching for the attractiveness of dead wood to saproxylic beetles

Habitat associations of saproxylic beetles in the southeastern United States: A comparison of forest types, tree species and wood postures

“…4). These differences are consistent with previous studies (Jonsell and Weslien, 2003;Gibb et al, 2006;McGeoch et al, 2007;Hjä lté n et al, 2007;Franc, 2007) and probably widen with time, particularly as the snags become dry following bark loss (Boulanger and Sirois, 2007).…”

Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge

“…3) by shading single logs (Hjältén et al, 2007) or exposing dead wood on both shady and sunny forest plots (Seibold et al, 2014). On the landscape level, soil conditions were the focus of a few studies (e.g., Cornelissen et al, 2012), but macroclimate was only rarely examined (e.g., Müller et al, 2014).…”

Long-term effects of stump harvesting and landscape composition on beetle assemblages in the hemiboreal forest of Sweden

“…Since the early 50s this trend has been accentuated by the use of mechanical forestry with clear-cutting, planting and thinning as main methods for forest regeneration (Östlund, 1997). One clear effect of these transformations is a radical decline in the abundance of saproxylic (wood inhabiting) species, which most likely is a direct outcome of the large reduction of dead and decaying wood in the forest landscape and the loss of forest continuity (Jonsell et al, 1998;Grove and Stork, 1999;Martikainen et al, 2000;Siitonen, 2001;Hjältén et al, 2007;Stenbacka et al, 2010). Some species are highly specialized and thus linked to very specific substrates (Jonsell et al, 1998).…”