Conservation value of low-productivity forests measured as the amount and diversity of dead wood and saproxylic beetles

Sammanfattning

In many managed landscapes, low-productivity land comprises most of the remaining relatively untouched areas, and is often over-represented within protected areas. The relationship between the productivity and conservational value of a site is poorly known; however, it has been hypothesized that biodiversity increases with productivity due to higher resource abundance or heterogeneity, and that the species communities of low-productivity land are a nested subset of communities from more productive land. We tested these hypotheses for dead-wood-dependent beetles by comparing their species richness and composition, as well as the amount and diversity of dead wood, between low-productivity (potential forest growth

Nyckelord

dead wood; low-productivity forest; mire; Pinus sylvestris; productivity-diversity relationship; saproxylic

Publicerad i

Ecological Applications
2018, volym: 28, nummer: 4, sidor: 1011-1019
Utgivare: WILEY

SLU författare

• Hämäläinen, Aino

  • Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Strengbom, Joachim

  • Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Ranius, Thomas

  • Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Ekologi

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1705

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