Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Logging to "salvage" economic returns from forests affected by natural disturbances has become increasingly prevalent globally. Despite potential negative effects on biodiversity, salvage logging is often conducted, even in areas otherwise excluded from logging and reserved for nature conservation, inter alia because strategic priorities for post-disturbance management are widely lacking.A review of the existing literature revealed that most studies investigating the effects of salvage logging on biodiversity have been conducted less than 5 years following natural disturbances, and focused on non-saproxylic organisms.A meta-analysis across 24 species groups revealed that salvage logging significantly decreases numbers of species of eight taxonomic groups. Richness of dead wood dependent ta

SUBMITTER: Thorn S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5736105 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature