TY - JOUR
T1 - Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity
AU - Thorn, Simon
AU - Chao, Anne
AU - Georgiev, Kostadin B.
AU - Müller, Jörg
AU - Bässler, Claus
AU - Campbell, John L.
AU - Castro, Jorge
AU - Chen, Yan Han
AU - Choi, Chang Yong
AU - Cobb, Tyler P.
AU - Donato, Daniel C.
AU - Durska, Ewa
AU - Macdonald, Ellen
AU - Feldhaar, Heike
AU - Fontaine, Joseph B.
AU - Fornwalt, Paula J.
AU - Hernández, Raquel María Hernández
AU - Hutto, Richard L.
AU - Koivula, Matti
AU - Lee, Eun Jae
AU - Lindenmayer, David
AU - Mikusiński, Grzegorz
AU - Obrist, Martin K.
AU - Perlík, Michal
AU - Rost, Josep
AU - Waldron, Kaysandra
AU - Wermelinger, Beat
AU - Weiß, Ingmar
AU - Żmihorski, Michał
AU - Leverkus, Alexandro B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Forests are increasingly affected by natural disturbances. Subsequent salvage logging, a widespread management practice conducted predominantly to recover economic capital, produces further disturbance and impacts biodiversity worldwide. Hence, naturally disturbed forests are among the most threatened habitats in the world, with consequences for their associated biodiversity. However, there are no evidence-based benchmarks for the proportion of area of naturally disturbed forests to be excluded from salvage logging to conserve biodiversity. We apply a mixed rarefaction/extrapolation approach to a global multi-taxa dataset from disturbed forests, including birds, plants, insects and fungi, to close this gap. We find that 75 ± 7% (mean ± SD) of a naturally disturbed area of a forest needs to be left unlogged to maintain 90% richness of its unique species, whereas retaining 50% of a naturally disturbed forest unlogged maintains 73 ± 12% of its unique species richness. These values do not change with the time elapsed since disturbance but vary considerably among taxonomic groups.
AB - Forests are increasingly affected by natural disturbances. Subsequent salvage logging, a widespread management practice conducted predominantly to recover economic capital, produces further disturbance and impacts biodiversity worldwide. Hence, naturally disturbed forests are among the most threatened habitats in the world, with consequences for their associated biodiversity. However, there are no evidence-based benchmarks for the proportion of area of naturally disturbed forests to be excluded from salvage logging to conserve biodiversity. We apply a mixed rarefaction/extrapolation approach to a global multi-taxa dataset from disturbed forests, including birds, plants, insects and fungi, to close this gap. We find that 75 ± 7% (mean ± SD) of a naturally disturbed area of a forest needs to be left unlogged to maintain 90% richness of its unique species, whereas retaining 50% of a naturally disturbed forest unlogged maintains 73 ± 12% of its unique species richness. These values do not change with the time elapsed since disturbance but vary considerably among taxonomic groups.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-020-18612-4
DO - 10.1038/s41467-020-18612-4
M3 - Article
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 11
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 4762
ER -