An ecosystem services approach to the ecological effects of salvage logging: valuation of seed dispersal.
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/32802Related data: http://dx.doi.org/10.21950/WAVFNR
DOI: 10.1002/eap.1539
PMID: 28342237
ISSN: 1051-0761
Publisher
Ecological Society of America
Date
2017Funders
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Bibliographic citation
Ecological applications, 2017, v. 27, n. 4, p.1057-1063
Keywords
Economic valuation
Garrulus glandarius
Salvage harvesting
Wildfire
Ecosystem service
Quercus ilex
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//CGL2008-01671/ES/Colonización post-incendio por encina de pinares de repoblación en función del manejo de la madera quemada: Análisis de la concordancia entre los factores de dispersión y el establecimiento
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CGL2014-53308-P/ES/SERVICIOS DE LA AVIFAUNA (HIGH MOBILE LINK SPECIES) EN MOSAICOS AGROFORESTALES: REGENERACION FORESTAL Y REGULACION DE PLAGAS
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/CAM//S2009%2FAMB-1783/ES/Restauración y conservación de los ecosistemas madrileños: respuesta frente al cambio global/REMEDINAL-2
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/CAM//S2013%2FMAE-2719/ES/Restauración y conservación de los ecosistemas mediterráneos: respuesta frente al cambio global/REMEDINAL-3
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MEC//AP2010-0272/ES
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CGL2014-52838-C2-1-R/ES/Hacia el balance integrado de gases de efecto invernadero en ecosistemas nacionales de alto impacto social y económico/GEISpain
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
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Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
Forest disturbances diminish ecosystem services and boost disservices. Because post-disturbance management intends to recover the greatest possible value, selling timber often prevails over other considerations. Ecological research has shown diverse effects of salvage logging, yet such research has focused on the biophysical component of post-disturbance ecosystems and lacks the link with human well-being. Here we bridge that gap under the ecosystem services framework by assessing the impact of post-fire management on a non-timber value. By employing the replacement cost method, we calculated the value of the post-fire natural regeneration of Holm oaks in southern Spain under three post-fire management options by considering the cost of planting instead. The value of this ecosystem service in non-intervention areas doubled that of salvage-logged stands due to the preference for standing dead trees by the main seed disperser. Still, most of the value resulted from the resprouting capacity of oaks. The value of this and other ecosystem services should be added to traditional cost/benefit analyses of post-disturbance management. We thus call for a more holistic approach to salvage logging research, one that explicitly links ecological processes with human well-being through ecosystem services, to better inform decision-makers on the outcomes of post-disturbance management.
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