Biodiversity Differences between Managed and Unmanaged Forests: Meta‐Analysis of Species Richness in Europe

By Y. Paillet, L. Bergès, Joakim Hjältén, P. Ódor, Catherine Avon, M. Bernhardt‐Römermann, R. Bijlsma, L. De Bruyn, M. Fuhr, U. Grandin and 14 more. Conservation Biology, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science

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Effects of forest management on ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae, Staphylinidae) in Central Europe are mainly mediated by changes in forest structure (2014, critical): “This finding is in contrast to the meta-analysis of Paillet et al. (2010), who compared unmanaged and managed forests across Europe and reported negative effects of forest management on species richness of various taxonomic groups, including carabids.”
Reshaping agri-environmental subsidies: From marginal farming to large-scale rewilding (2015, background): “semi-natural calcareous grasslands: Rösch, Tscharntke, Scherber, & Batáry, 2013) in comparison with natural forests, this pattern varies across taxa: closedbiotope groups, such as saproxylic insects, many species of which are now regionally extinct in Western Europe, reach highest diversity in natur”
Does a minimal intervention approach threaten the biodiversity of protected areas? A multi-taxa short-term response to intervention in temperate oak-dominated forests (2015, background): “Numerous studies compared the biodiversity of unmanaged (minimal intervention approach) and commercially managed forests concluding that minimal intervention favours biodiversity (Lassauce et al., 2013; Martikainen et al., 2000; Paillet et al., 2010).”
Influence of tree characteristics and forest management on tree microhabitats (2011, background): “In addition, due to their key role in biodiversity conservation (Paillet et al., 2010), unmanaged forests may serve as references because they tend to have more complex tree composition and stratification, and more structures favourable to forest-dwelling species (Hunter, 1999; Peterken, 1996).”
Biodiversity response to forest structure and management: Comparing species richness, conservation relevant species and functional diversity as metrics in forest conservation (2019, background): “So far, the effects of management on biodiversity have been investigated mostly with a focus on stand-level species richness (Paillet et al., 2010; Chaudhary et al., 2016), probably because it represents the simplest way to measure biodiversity (Colwell and Coddington, 1994).”
Direct and productivity‐mediated indirect effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on grassland species richness (2012, background): “Several meta-analyses (Kleijn et al. 2006; Paillet et al. 2010) have revealed large variation in land-use effects on biodiversity among taxa, habitats and regions.”
Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge (2015, positive): “…response of species richness to increasing forest management and differences in the species composition between stands of different management intensity have been reported most frequently, confirming the related meta-analysis of Paillet et al. (2010), which is based mostly on observational studies.”
The impact of even‐aged and uneven‐aged forest management on regional biodiversity of multiple taxa in European beech forests (2018, background): “…has been shown to reduce the diversity of particular taxonomic groups compared with unmanaged forests (Bässler et al., 2014; Birkhofer et al., 2012; Paillet et al., 2010), it is generally thought to facilitate local biodiversity (α- diversity observed at distinct sampling units) more than coarse-…”
A meta-analysis of the effect of forest management for timber on understory plant species diversity in temperate forests (2013, methodology): “Similar to Paillet et al. (2010) we found many papers lacking summary statistics, we support their assertion that journals require reporting of variance and sample size.”
Drivers of forest harvesting intensity patterns in Europe (2014, methodology): “To do so, we used the forest map by Pekkarinen et al. (2009), which intensity (”