Nature Communications (Sep 2020)
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,
- Daniel C. Donato,
- Ewa Durska,
- Ellen Macdonald,
- Heike Feldhaar,
- Joseph B. Fontaine,
- Paula J. Fornwalt,
- Raquel María Hernández Hernández,
- Richard L. Hutto,
- Matti Koivula,
- Eun-Jae Lee,
- David Lindenmayer,
- Grzegorz Mikusiński,
- Martin K. Obrist,
- Michal Perlík,
- Josep Rost,
- Kaysandra Waldron,
- Beat Wermelinger,
- Ingmar Weiß,
- Michał Żmihorski,
- Alexandro B. Leverkus
Affiliations
- Simon Thorn
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Biocenter, University of Würzburg
- Anne Chao
- Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University
- Kostadin B. Georgiev
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Biocenter, University of Würzburg
- Jörg Müller
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Biocenter, University of Würzburg
- Claus Bässler
- Department of Biodiversity Conservation, Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity
- John L. Campbell
- Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University
- Jorge Castro
- Department of Ecology, University of Granada
- Yan-Han Chen
- Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University
- Chang-Yong Choi
- Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Bioresources, Seoul National University
- Tyler P. Cobb
- Royal Alberta Museum
- Daniel C. Donato
- School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
- Ewa Durska
- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Ellen Macdonald
- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta
- Heike Feldhaar
- Department of Animal Ecology I, Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth
- Joseph B. Fontaine
- Environmental and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University
- Paula J. Fornwalt
- USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
- Raquel María Hernández Hernández
- Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, Universidad de La Laguna
- Richard L. Hutto
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana
- Matti Koivula
- Natural Resources Institute (LUKE)
- Eun-Jae Lee
- Urban Planning Research Group, Daejeon Sejong Research Institute
- David Lindenmayer
- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University
- Grzegorz Mikusiński
- Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU
- Martin K. Obrist
- WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
- Michal Perlík
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia
- Josep Rost
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona. Facultat de Ciències, Carrer Maria Aurèlia Capmany
- Kaysandra Waldron
- Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre
- Beat Wermelinger
- WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Forest Health and Biotic Interactions-Forest Entomology
- Ingmar Weiß
- Rehtränke
- Michał Żmihorski
- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Alexandro B. Leverkus
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Biocenter, University of Würzburg
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18612-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Salvage logging has become a common practice to gain economic returns from naturally disturbed forests, but it could have considerable negative effects on biodiversity. Here the authors use a recently developed statistical method to estimate that ca. 75% of the naturally disturbed forest should be left unlogged to maintain 90% of the species unique to the area.
