A Global Assessment of Plant and Animal Community Responses to Forest Management Over Time.

ABSTRACT: Transitions to forest management that mitigate negative effects of forest use on biodiversity are required to bend the curve of biodiversity loss. To facilitate such transitions, it is vital to understand the effects of different forest management practices on biodiversity. In this study, we analyzed observation data of 182 studies (312,453 abundance values) from three global biodiversity databases to estimate the effects of seven types of forest management on plant and animal (i.e., insects and vertebrates) biodiversity over time, and on threatened animals. We captured biodiversity in four distinct metrics (i.e., quantifiable measures of community composition): (i) intactness, (ii) relative species richness, (iii) compositional similarity, and (iv) relative total abundance, all calculated

SUBMITTER: van 't Veen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12169101 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature