TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of selection felling and gap felling on forest arthropod communities
T2 - A case study in a spruce-beech stand of southern Bavaria
AU - Goßner, Martin
AU - Engel, K.
AU - Ammer, U.
PY - 2006/10
Y1 - 2006/10
N2 - The effects of selection felling and gap felling on arthropod communities were studied over 3 years in a spruce-beech stand in southern Bavaria, Germany. The arthropods were sampled in three strata, using pitfall traps on the forest floor as well as flight-interception traps near the forest floor and in the tree crowns. Coleoptera, Araneae, Opiliones, Heteroptera, Isopoda, Diplopoda and Neuropterida were determined to species level and assigned to ecological guilds. In general, the effects of both treatments on arthropod communities were small. An increase of eurytopic species and species of open woodland as well as of indwellers of deadwood was observed, mainly in the first year after felling. However, forest species dominated the communities in all plots, strata and years. In contrast to selection fellings, gap fellings might favour potential pest species. Nevertheless, in the studied managed spruce-dominated forest site out of the natural growth range of spruce, negative ecological effects such as the repression of forest arthropod species are not expected by small scale fellings.
AB - The effects of selection felling and gap felling on arthropod communities were studied over 3 years in a spruce-beech stand in southern Bavaria, Germany. The arthropods were sampled in three strata, using pitfall traps on the forest floor as well as flight-interception traps near the forest floor and in the tree crowns. Coleoptera, Araneae, Opiliones, Heteroptera, Isopoda, Diplopoda and Neuropterida were determined to species level and assigned to ecological guilds. In general, the effects of both treatments on arthropod communities were small. An increase of eurytopic species and species of open woodland as well as of indwellers of deadwood was observed, mainly in the first year after felling. However, forest species dominated the communities in all plots, strata and years. In contrast to selection fellings, gap fellings might favour potential pest species. Nevertheless, in the studied managed spruce-dominated forest site out of the natural growth range of spruce, negative ecological effects such as the repression of forest arthropod species are not expected by small scale fellings.
KW - Arthropods
KW - Ecological guilds
KW - Felling
KW - Forest management
KW - Harvesting
KW - Picea abies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33746601469&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10342-006-0126-6
DO - 10.1007/s10342-006-0126-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33746601469
SN - 1612-4669
VL - 125
SP - 345
EP - 360
JO - European Journal of Forest Research
JF - European Journal of Forest Research
IS - 4
ER -