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Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2013

Ecological traps and habitat loss, stump extraction and its effects on saproxylic beetles

Victorsson, Jonas; Jonsell, Mats

Abstract

Stump extraction reduced the P. abies stump volume by 76%. The concomitant decrease in beetle community abundance was 70%, a decrease from 9109 to 2692 beetles per hectare. A conservative estimate is that between 5.2% and 23.1% of the beetles "produced" at the stump extraction site were killed at stump pile removal. Our results indicated that the stump storage piles were a severe ecological trap for four individual species. However, a lower community density of beetles in stump storage piles compared to surrounding extraction clear-cuts, indicate that stump storage piles did not constitute a community-wide ecological trap. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Biodiversity; Bioenergy; Community ecology; Coleoptera

Published in

Forest Ecology and Management
2013, volume: 290, pages: 22-29
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Authors' information

Victorsson, Jonas
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology

UKÄ Subject classification

Zoology
Ecology
Forest Science
Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use

Publication Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2012.06.057

URI (permanent link to this page)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/52633