Taxon-specific responses to different forestry treatments in a temperate forest.

ABSTRACT: There are only few studies that explore the ecological consequences of forest management on several organism groups. We studied the short-term effects of four forestry treatments including preparation cutting, clear-cutting, retention tree group and gap-cutting in a temperate managed forest on the assemblage structure of understory plants, enchytraeid worms, spiders and ground beetles. Here we show, that the effect of treatments on the different facets of assemblage structure was taxon-specific. Clear-cutting and retention tree group strongly impoverished enchytraeids assemblages. Even if the species richness and cover of plants increased in clear-cutting and gap-cutting, their species composition moderately changed after treatments. For spiders only their species composition was influence

SUBMITTER: Elek Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6243015 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature