Saproxylic beetles' morphological traits and higher trophic guilds indicate boreal forest naturalness.

ABSTRACT: Forests contribute to numerous ecosystem functions and services and contain a large proportion of terrestrial biodiversity, but they are being negatively impaced by anthropogenic activities. Forests that have never been clear-cut and have old growth characteristics, termed "near-natural," often harbor different and richer species assemblages than managed forests. Alternative management strategies may be able to balance the needs of biodiversity with the demands of forestry, but evaluation efforts are limited by the challenges of measuring biodiversity. Species richness is frequently used as a simple measure of biodiversity, but research indicates that it may not adequately capture community-level changes. Alternatively, trait-based measures of biodiversity may prove to be useful, but resea

SUBMITTER: Wetherbee R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10716668 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature