Mass-abundance scaling in avian communities is maintained after tropical selective logging.

ABSTRACT: Selective logging dominates forested landscapes across the tropics. Despite the structural damage incurred, selectively logged forests typically retain more biodiversity than other forest disturbances. Most logging impact studies consider conventional metrics, like species richness, but these can conceal subtle biodiversity impacts. The mass-abundance relationship is an integral feature of ecological communities, describing the negative relationship between body mass and population abundance, where, in a system without anthropogenic influence, larger species are less abundant due to higher energy requirements. Changes in this relationship can indicate community structure and function changes.We investigated the impacts of selective logging on the mass-abundance scaling of avian communities

SUBMITTER: Cosset CCP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7083669 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature