Short-term responses of small mammal diversity to varying stand-scale patterns of retention tree patches.

ABSTRACT: Retention forestry is a common practice for biodiversity conservation in forests managed for wood production. Retention forestry often leaves unharvested patches of trees that vary in size and spatial pattern but experiments evaluating the effects of different retention patch configurations at a constant level of retention are lacking for many regions and taxonomic groups. We implemented an experimental study in clearcut conifer stands with retention across the U.S. Pacific Northwest region. The study consisted of five stand-level (11-55 ha) experimental treatments each replicated 10 times within a randomized complete block design, resulting in 50 treated stands. Retained tree density was comparable across treatments but size, number, and location (upland or riparian) of patches within sta

SUBMITTER: Sultaire SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9432693 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature