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Taxon-specific responses to different forestry treatments in a temperate forest

Elek, Zoltán and Kovács, Bence and Aszalós, Réka and Boros, Gergely and Samu, Ferenc and Tinya, Flóra and Ódor, Péter (2018) Taxon-specific responses to different forestry treatments in a temperate forest. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 8. ISSN 2045-2322

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Abstract

There are only few studies that explore the ecological consequences of forest management on several organism groups. We studied the short-term effects of four forestry treatments including preparation cutting, clear-cutting, retention tree group and gap-cutting in a temperate managed forest on the assemblage structure of understory plants, enchytraeid worms, spiders and ground beetles. Here we show, that the effect of treatments on the different facets of assemblage structure was taxon-specific. Clear-cutting and retention tree group strongly impoverished enchytraeids assemblages. Even if the species richness and cover of plants increased in clear-cutting and gap-cutting, their species composition moderately changed after treatments. For spiders only their species composition was influenced by the treatments, while the response of ground beetles was slightly affected. Short-term effect of forest management interventions on biodiversity might be compensated by the dispersal (spiders, ground beetles) and resilience (plants) of organism groups, however sedentary soil organism showed high sensitivity.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QH Natural history / természetrajz > QH540 Ecology / ökológia
S Agriculture / mezőgazdaság > SD Forestry / erdőgazdaság
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 19 Nov 2018 15:03
Last Modified: 19 Nov 2018 15:03
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/87187

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