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ArticleNature communications2020

Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity.

Simon Thorn, Anne Chao, Kostadin B Georgiev, Jörg Müller, Claus Bässler, John L Campbell, Jorge Castro, Yan-Han Chen, Chang-Yong Choi, Tyler P Cobb and 20 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

30 authors.

Simon ThornField Station Fabrikschleichach, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany. simon@thornonline.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3062-3060
Anne ChaoInstitute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, 30043, Taiwan.
Kostadin B GeorgievField Station Fabrikschleichach, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany.
Jörg MüllerField Station Fabrikschleichach, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1409-1586
Claus BässlerDepartment of Biodiversity Conservation, Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Max-von-Laue-Str. 13, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
John L CampbellDepartment of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, 321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA.
Jorge CastroDepartment of Ecology, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain.
Yan-Han ChenInstitute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, 30043, Taiwan.
Chang-Yong ChoiDepartment of Agriculture, Forestry, and Bioresources, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Korea.
Tyler P CobbRoyal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB, T5J 0G2, Canada.
Daniel C DonatoSchool of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Ewa DurskaMuseum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4616-1515
Ellen MacdonaldDepartment of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2H1, Canada.
Heike FeldhaarDepartment of Animal Ecology I, Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany.
Joseph B FontaineEnvironmental and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia.
Paula J FornwaltUSDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 240 West Prospect Road, Fort Collins, CO, 80526, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5252-408X
Raquel María Hernández HernándezDepartment of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, Universidad de La Laguna, 38200, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain.
Richard L HuttoDivision of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7754-1740
Matti KoivulaNatural Resources Institute (LUKE), P. O. Box 2, FI-00791, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6415-4904
Eun-Jae LeeUrban Planning Research Group, Daejeon Sejong Research Institute, Daejeon, 34863, Korea.
David LindenmayerFenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4766-4088
Grzegorz MikusińskiGrimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, SE-730 91, Riddarhyttan, Sweden.
Martin K ObristWSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
Michal PerlíkFaculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 1760, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
Josep RostDepartment of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona. Facultat de Ciències, Carrer Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Campus de Montilivi, 17003, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4053-5141
Kaysandra WaldronNatural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 rue du P.E.P.S., P.O. Box 10380, Stn. Sainte-Foy, Québec, QC, G1V 4C7, Canada.
Beat WermelingerWSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Forest Health and Biotic Interactions-Forest Entomology, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3235-6741
Ingmar WeißRehtränke, 94481, Rosenau, Germany.
Michał ŻmihorskiMammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Stoczek 1, 17-230, Białowieża, Poland.
Alexandro B LeverkusField Station Fabrikschleichach, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Forests are increasingly affected by natural disturbances. Subsequent salvage logging, a widespread management practice conducted predominantly to recover economic capital, produces further disturbance and impacts biodiversity worldwide. Hence, naturally disturbed forests are among the most threatened habitats in the world, with consequences for their associated biodiversity. However, there are no evidence-based benchmarks for the proportion of area of naturally disturbed forests to be excluded from salvage logging to conserve biodiversity. We apply a mixed rarefaction/extrapolation approach to a global multi-taxa dataset from disturbed forests, including birds, plants, insects and fungi, to close this gap. We find that 75 ± 7% (mean ± SD) of a naturally disturbed area of a forest needs to be left unlogged to maintain 90% richness of its unique species, whereas retaining 50% of a naturally disturbed forest unlogged maintains 73 ± 12% of its unique species richness. These values do not change with the time elapsed since disturbance but vary considerably among taxonomic groups.

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Conservation of Natural ResourcesForestsAnimalsBiodiversityEcosystemForestrySpecies Specificity

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PMID32958767
PMCPMC7505835

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