Artikel ; Online: Fast recovery of soil macrofauna in regenerating forests of the Amazon.
2021 Band 90, Heft 9, Seite(n) 2094–2108
Abstract: The emergence of secondary forests in deforested tropical regions represents an opportunity to mitigate biodiversity loss and climate change, but there is still debate on how fast and to which level these forests can recover biodiversity. Recent studies ... ...
| Abstract | The emergence of secondary forests in deforested tropical regions represents an opportunity to mitigate biodiversity loss and climate change, but there is still debate on how fast and to which level these forests can recover biodiversity. Recent studies have shown that the recovery of plant and vertebrate species richness is relatively fast, but the pace of recovery for other groups remains unclear. Soil macroinvertebrates play critical roles on litter decomposition and seed dispersal, therefore the pace of their recovery has consequences for the entire forest ecosystem. We investigated how fast broad taxonomic groups of soil macrofauna recover in the first 30 years of forest regeneration using forests older than 50 years as reference. We surveyed the number, diversity and abundance of 19 broad taxonomic groups of soil macrofauna in 85 sites located in Brazilian Amazon, covering forests of different ages and clearing frequencies. Forest age and clearing frequency were obtained accurately from Landsat images in forests up to 30 years old. We used regression analysis to determine (a) the effects forest age and clearing frequency on macrofauna groups in secondary forests up to 30 years old; and (b) the changes in macrofauna groups between young forests (up to 10 years old), median age forests (between 10 and 30 years old) and forests older than 50 years. We found that the number and diversity of macrofauna groups recover rapidly in the first 10 years of forest regrowth, but show slower change among older forests. This rapid recovery was also observed in the abundance of several taxonomic groups and for predators and detritivores as functional groups. Forest clearing frequency had no effect on the number or the diversity of macrofauna groups, but the abundance of ants increased as forest was cleared more often. Our results for soil macrofauna align with those in plant and vertebrate studies showing that secondary forests quickly recover a large part of their biodiversity and ecological functions. Therefore, global-scale conservation strategies are needed to ensure the opportunity for secondary forests to grow. . |
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| Mesh-Begriff(e) | Animals ; Biodiversity ; Conservation of Natural Resources ; Ecosystem ; Forests ; Plants ; Soil ; Trees ; Tropical Climate |
| Chemische Substanzen | Soil |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 2021-05-14 |
| Erscheinungsland | England |
| Dokumenttyp | Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| ZDB-ID | 3024-7 |
| ISSN | 1365-2656 ; 0021-8790 |
| ISSN (online) | 1365-2656 |
| ISSN | 0021-8790 |
| DOI | 10.1111/1365-2656.13506 |
| Datenquelle | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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