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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Thresholds of logging intensity to maintain tropical forest biodiversity |
Author: | Burivalova, Z. Şekercioǧlu, C. Koh, L. |
Citation: | Current Biology, 2014; 24(16):1893-1898 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Science |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
ISSN: | 0960-9822 1879-0445 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Zuzana Burivalova, Çağan Hakkı Şekercioğlu, Lian Pin Koh |
Abstract: | Primary tropical forests are lost at an alarming rate, and much of the remaining forest is being degraded by selective logging. Yet, the impacts of logging on biodiversity remain poorly understood, in part due to the seemingly conflicting findings of case studies: about as many studies have reported increases in biodiversity after selective logging as have reported decreases. Consequently, meta-analytical studies that treat selective logging as a uniform land use tend to conclude that logging has negligible effects on biodiversity. However, selectively logged forests might not all be the same. Through a pantropical meta-analysis and using an information-theoretic approach, we compared and tested alternative hypotheses for key predictors of the richness of tropical forest fauna in logged forest. We found that the species richness of invertebrates, amphibians, and mammals decreases as logging intensity increases and that this effect varies with taxonomic group and continental location. In particular, mammals and amphibians would suffer a halving of species richness at logging intensities of 38 m(3) ha(-1) and 63 m(3) ha(-1), respectively. Birds exhibit an opposing trend as their total species richness increases with logging intensity. An analysis of forest bird species, however, suggests that this pattern is largely due to an influx of habitat generalists into heavily logged areas while forest specialist species decline. Our study provides a quantitative analysis of the nuanced responses of species along a gradient of logging intensity, which could help inform evidence-based sustainable logging practices from the perspective of biodiversity conservation. |
Keywords: | Animals |
Rights: | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.065 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.065 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Earth and Environmental Sciences publications |
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