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- Hudson, Lawrence N, et al.
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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project
- 2017
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Ingår i: Ecology and Evolution. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 2045-7758. ; 7:1, s. 145-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity.
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- Goug, Leonie A., et al.
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Specialists in ancient trees are more affected by climate than generalists
- 2015
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Ingår i: Ecology and Evolution. - : Wiley. - 2045-7758. ; 5:23, s. 5632-5641
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ancient trees are considered one of the most important habitats for biodiversityin Europe and North America. They support exceptional numbers of specializedspecies, including a range of rare and endangered wood-living insects. In thisstudy, we use a dataset of 105 sites spanning a climatic gradient along the oakrange of Norway and Sweden to investigate the importance of temperature andprecipitation on beetle species richness in ancient, hollow oak trees. We expectedthat increased summer temperature would positively influence all wood-livingbeetle species whereas precipitation would be less important with a negligible ornegative impact. Surprisingly, only oak-specialist beetles with a northern distributionincreased in species richness with temperature. Few specialist beetles and nogeneralist beetles responded to the rise of 4°C in summer as covered by our climaticgradient. The negative effect of precipitation affected more specialist speciesthan did temperature, whereas the generalists remained unaffected. In summary,we suggest that increased summer temperature is likely to benefit a few specialistbeetles within this dead wood community, but a larger number of specialists arelikely to decline due to increased precipitation. In addition, generalist species willremain unaffected. To minimize adverse impacts of climate change on this importantcommunity, long-term management plans for ancient trees are important.
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- Gough, Leonie A., et al.
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Data from: Specialists in ancient trees are more affected by climate than generalists
- 2016
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Annan publikationabstract
- Ancient trees are considered one of the most important habitats for biodiversity in Europe and North America. They support exceptional numbers of specialized species, including a range of rare and endangered wood-living insects. In this study, we use a dataset of 105 sites spanning a climatic gradient along the oak range of Norway and Sweden to investigate the importance of temperature and precipitation on beetle species richness in ancient, hollow oak trees. We expected that increased summer temperature would positively influence all wood-living beetle species whereas precipitation would be less important with a negligible or negative impact. Surprisingly, only oak-specialist beetles with a northern distribution increased in species richness with temperature. Few specialist beetles and no generalist beetles responded to the rise of 4°C in summer as covered by our climatic gradient. The negative effect of precipitation affected more specialist species than did temperature, whereas the generalists remained unaffected. In summary, we suggest that increased summer temperature is likely to benefit a few specialist beetles within this dead wood community, but a larger number of specialists are likely to decline due to increased precipitation. In addition, generalist species will remain unaffected. To minimize adverse impacts of climate change on this important community, long-term management plans for ancient trees are important.
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- Hiron, Matthew, et al.
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Consequences of bioenergy wood extraction for landscape-level availability of habitat for dead wood-dependent organisms
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0301-4797 .- 1095-8630. ; 198, s. 33-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Stumps and slash resulting from forest clearcutting is used as a source of low-net-carbon energy, but there are concerns about the consequences of biofuel extraction on biodiversity. Logging residues constitute potentially important habitats, since a large part of forest biodiversity is dependent on dead wood. Here we used snapshot field data from a managed forest landscape (25 000 ha) to predict landscape scale population changes of dead wood dependent organisms after extraction of stumps and slash after clearcutting. We did this by estimating habitat availability for all observed dead wood dependent beetles, macrofungi, and lichens (380 species) in the whole landscape. We found that 53% of species occurred in slash or stumps. For most species, population declines after moderate extraction (<= 30%) were small (<10% decline) because they mainly occur on other dead wood types. However, some species were only recorded in slash and stumps. Red listed species were affected by slash and stump extraction (12 species), but less often than other species. Beetles and fungi were more affected by stump extraction, while lichens were more affected by slash extraction. For beetles and lichens, extraction of a combination of spruce, pine and birch resulted in larger negative effects than if only extracting spruce, while for fungi tree species had little effect. We conclude that extensive extraction decreases the amount of habitat to such extent that it may have negative consequences on species persistence at the landscape level. The negative consequences can be limited by extracting only slash, or only logging residues from spruce stands. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Jonsell, Mats
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Bin runt husknuten
- 2017
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Ingår i: Entomologisk tidskrift. - 0013-886X. ; 138, s. 93-93
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Jonsell, Mats
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Björkarnas myllrande mångfald
- 2017
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Ingår i: Entomologisk tidskrift. - 0013-886X. ; 138, s. 108-
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Recension av Ehnström, B. & Holmer M. 2015. Björk - svart på vitt om myllrande mångfald. – CBMs skriftserie 89.
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- Jonsell, Mats, et al.
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Diptera in clear-felling stumps like it dry
- 2019
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0282-7581 .- 1651-1891. ; 34, s. 673-677
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When stumps on clear cuts are harvested for bioenergy, retention of a share of them is recommended to mitigate environmental issues. To maximise benefits for the diversity of saproxylic beetles, retention should be done in dry positions. Saproxylic dipterans are usually thought to be associated with wetter wood substrates. We therefore hypothesised that dipterans would benefit from other recommendations. We tested that by rearing out insects from spruce and birch stumps sampled in clear fellings, and received a material of 866 individuals of 24 Diptera taxa. Among six Diptera species tested statistically, one was associated with dry stumps when comparing within spruce, and the total abundance of dipterans was higher in dry spruce stumps than in wet. No parameter (total species number, species number per stump, total abundances and abundances of individual species) showed a higher value for wet stumps than for dry. We conclude that there are several Diptera species that frequently use stumps, of which a large share was earlier regarded as very rare. For those, our hypothesis was falsified, as the affinities to dry stumps seem similar as for beetles and the same recommendations could be used.
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- Jonsell, Mats
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Gotska Sandöns skogshistoria med brandplan för framtiden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Entomologisk tidskrift. - 0013-886X. ; 136, s. 85-85
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Recension av Niklasson, M. 2015. Skogshistoria och bränder på Gotska Sandön. – Rapporter om natur och miljö nr 2015:1. Länsstyrelsen Gotlands län.
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- Jonsell, Mats, et al.
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Increasing influence of the surrounding landscape on saproxylic beetle communities over 10 years succession in dead wood
- 2019
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Ingår i: Forest Ecology and Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0378-1127 .- 1872-7042. ; 440, s. 267-284
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Studies of the spatial scale to which saproxylic beetles respond to the surrounding landscape have generated varied results. We tested how the relationship between beetle fauna and variables describing the landscape changed over ten years of succession. We hypothesized that the relationship to the nearby landscape would be stronger when the wood was in a later successional stage. This is because habitat predictability is higher in the later stages, as they have a longer turnover time of beetle assemblages than early stages. With higher predict. ability of the habitat, theory expect lower dispersal capacity of hosted species, and thereby higher relation to landscape on smaller scale. The saproxylic beetles were sampled on the same wood objects (high stumps) in three time steps over ten years in 20 clear-cuts in south Sweden. In accordance with our expectations, the nearby (< 5 km radius) forest-landscape variables explained more of the species composition of the saproxylic beetles later in the succession. The first- and third-years geographical location (longitude and latitude) were more important and explained, for three different subsets of beetle species, 21%, 4% and 25% of the fauna composition. At this time, the forest-landscape variables explained almost nothing. After ten years the pattern was the opposite, with surrounding forest explaining up to 27% of the variation, and regional factors almost nothing. We showed that this was related to a shift in the species assemblage after ten years, with an increasing share of species associated with more decayed wood. Our results suggest that successional stage of the dead wood helps explain at what scale saproxylic species respond. Several of the surrounding forest variables were associated with biodiversity hotspots, which thus seem to exist also for species associated with abundant wood types. Latersuccessional species are more indicative of hotspots than earlier-successional species.
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