Salvage logging effects on regulating ecosystem services and fuel loads: A meta-analysis
Authors
Leverkus, Alexandro Bitol; Lindenmayer, D.B.; Gustaffson, L.; Castro, Jorge; Rey Benayas, José María; [et al.]Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/47350DOI: 10.1002/fee.2219
ISSN: 1540-9295
Date
2020-06-08Funders
Universidad de Alcalá
Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional
Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación
Bibliographic citation
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2020, v. 18, n. , p. 391-400
Keywords
Disturbance
Ecosystem services
Forest
Salvage Logging
Project
Project AS2013/MAE (REMEDINAL - Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación)
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
The authors
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
Salvage logging, or logging after natural disturbances such as wildfires, insect outbreaks, and windstorms, is carried out to recover some of a forest's natural and/or economic capital. However, trade‐offs between management objectives and a lack of consensus on the ecological consequences of salvage logging impair science‐based decision making on the management of forests after natural disturbances. We conducted a global meta‐analysis of the impacts of salvage logging on regulating ecosystem services and on fuel loads, as a frequent post‐disturbance objective is preventing subsequent wildfires that could be fueled by the accumulation of dead trunks and branches. Salvage logging affected ecosystem services in a moderately negative way, regardless of disturbance type and severity, time elapsed since salvage logging, intensity of salvage logging, and the group of regulating ecosystem services being considered. However, prolonging the time between natural disturbance and salvage logging mitigated negative effects on regulating ecosystem services. Salvage logging had no overall effect on surface fuels; rather, different fuel types responded differently depending on the time elapsed since salvage logging. Delaying salvage logging by ~2&-4 years may reduce negative ecological impacts without affecting surface fuel loads.
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