A synthesis of multi-taxa management experiments to guide forest biodiversity conservation in Europe
2023
Tinya, Flóra | Doerfler, Inken | de Groot, Maarten | Heilman-Clausen, Jacob | Kovács, Bence | Mårell, Anders | Nordén, Björn | Aszalós, Réka | Bässler, Claus | Brazaitis, Gediminas | Burrascano, Sabina | Camprodon, Jordi | Chudomelová, Markéta | Čížek, Lukáš | d'Andrea, Ettore | Gossner, Martin | Halme, Panu | Hédl, Radim | Korboulewsky, Nathalie | Kouki, Jari | Kozel, Petr | Lõhmus, Asko | López, Rosana | Máliš, František | Martín, Juan, | Matteucci, Giorgio | Mattioli, Walter | Mundet, Roser | Müller, Jörg | Nicolas, Manuel | Oldén, Anna | Piqué, Míriam | Preikša, Žydrūnas | Rovira Ciuró, Joan | Remm, Liina | Schall, Peter | Šebek, Pavel | Seibold, Sebastian | Simončič, Primož | Ujházy, Karol | Ujházyová, Mariana | Vild, Ondřej | Vincenot, Lucie | Weisser, Wolfgang | Ódor, Péter | Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Va´cra´to´t, Hungary | Institute of Biology and Environmental Science, Vegetation Science & Nature Conservation, University of Oldenburg | Slovenian Forestry Institute | Globe Institute ; Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences ; University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH) | Ecosystèmes forestiers (UR EFNO) ; Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) | Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main | Vytautas Magnus University - Vytauto Didziojo Universitetas (VDU) | Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy | Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia [Solsona, Spain] (CTFC) | Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IB / CAS) ; Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (CAS) | Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Science | National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) | Institut Fédéral de Recherches sur la Forêt, la Neige et le Paysage (WSL) ; Institut Fédéral de Recherches [Suisse] | Department of Biological and Environmental Science [Jyväskylä Univ] (JYU) ; University of Jyväskylä (JYU) | University of Eastern Finland | Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences [Tartu] ; University of Tartu | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) | Technical University in Zvolen (TUZVO) | Institute for BioEconomy [Sesto Fiorentino] (IBE | CNR) ; National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) | CREA – Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Arezzo, Italy | Forestry Consortium of Catalonia (Santa Coloma de Farners) | University of Würzburg | Recherche, développement et innovation (ONF-RDI) ; Office national des forêts (ONF) | Joint Research Unit CTFC – AGROTECNIO, Solsona, Spain | Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen | Technische Universität München = Technical University of Munich (TUM) | FACULTY OF ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ZVOLEN SVK ; Partenaires IRSTEA ; Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA) | Etude et compréhension de la biodiversité - Normandie université (USC INRAE 1499 ECODIV (Rouen)) | Terrestrial Ecology Research Group ; Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM) | The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Sabina Burrascano reports financial support was provided by EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020. Flora Tinya reports financial support was provided by National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary. Flora Tinya reports financial support was provided by Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Marketa Chudomelova, Radim Hedl, Ondrej Vild reports financial support was provided by Czech Academy of Sciences. Frantisek Malis, Karol Ujhazy, Mariana Ujhazyova reports financial support was provided by Slovak Research and Development Agency.
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. Most European forests are used for timber production. Given the limited extent of unmanaged (and especially primary) forests, it is essential to include commercial forests in the conservation of forest biodiversity. In order to develop ecologically sustainable forest management practices, it is important to understand the management impacts on forest-dwelling organisms. Experiments allow testing the effects of alternative management strategies, and monitoring of multiple taxa informs us on the response range across forest-dwelling organisms. To provide a representative picture of the currently available information, metadata on 28 multi-taxa forest management experiments were collected from 14 European countries. We demonstrate the potential of compiling these experiments in a single network to upscale results from the local to continental level and indicate directions for future research. Among the different forest types, temperate deciduous beech and oak-dominated forests are the best represented in the multi-taxa management experiments. Of all the experimental treatments, innovative ways of traditional management techniques (e.g., gap cutting and thinning) and conservation-oriented interventions (e.g., microhabitat enrichment) provide the best opportunity for large-scale analyses. Regarding the organism groups, woody regeneration, herbs, fungi, beetles, bryophytes, birds and lichens offer the largest potential for addressing management–biodiversity relationships at the European level. We identified knowledge gaps regarding boreal, hemiboreal and broadleaved evergreen forests, the treatments of large herbivore exclusion, prescribed burning and forest floor or water manipulations, and the monitoring of soil-dwelling organisms and some vertebrate classes, e.g., amphibians, reptiles and mammals. To improve multi-site comparisons, design of future experiments should be fitted to the set-up of the ongoing projects and standardised biodiversity sampling is suggested. However, the network described here opens the way to learn lessons on the impact on forest biodiversity of different management techniques at the continental level, and thus, supports biodiversity conservation in managed forests.
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