Forest dieback in a protected area triggers the return of the primeval forest specialist Peltis grossa (Coleoptera, Trogossitidae)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/22:00552740 RIV/00094862:_____/22:N0000073 RIV/60076658:12310/22:43904861 RIV/62156489:43410/22:43921044 RIV/00027073:_____/22:N0000037

Result on the web

<a href="https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/csp2.612" target="_blank" >https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/csp2.612</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/csp2.612" target="_blank" >10.1111/csp2.612</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Forest dieback in a protected area triggers the return of the primeval forest specialist Peltis grossa (Coleoptera, Trogossitidae)

Original language description

Forest set-aside is a commonly employed conservation strategy, but large-scale disturbances regularly evoke discussions on its utility for biodiversity conservation in former production forests. In this study, we reconstructed the return of a primeval forest specialist, the beetle Peltis grossa (Linnaeus, 1758) of the family Trogossitidae, to two national parks after more than a century of absence. To illuminate historical processes and the role of potential refuges and species&apos; size, we compared the beetle&apos;s current distribution collected in a large-scale citizen science approach, with historical data and the current distribution of two closely related, smaller species. We quantified deadwood preferences and investigated the effect of benign neglect versus salvage-logging management practices on P. grossa abundances. Our findings support the view that P. grossa survived in the southern Bohemian Forest, which enabled its recolonization of the landscapes. However, a build-up of the population was dependent upon a massive supply of deadwood by bark beetles within the refuge area. In a large area in the north of the study region that &gt;20 years ago contained ample amounts of deadwood, forest succession outpaced colonization by P. grossa. The current probability of the species&apos; presence decreased with distance to the presumed refuge area from 70% to 5% at 40 km. In the present core distribution area of P. grossa, salvage logging reduced its abundance by the factor 20. These results provide three important lessons on the potential of natural disturbances as a biodiversity restoration tool in forest set-asides: First, large supply of deadwood by disturbance can trigger the return of locally extinct primeval forest specialists. Second, the species must survive within a critical distance (for P. grossa &lt; 10-40 km). Third, salvage logging significantly reduces the population densities of forest specialists by reducing habitat amount.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE

ISSN

2578-4854

e-ISSN

2578-4854

Volume of the periodical

4

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

"Article Number: e612"

UT code for WoS article

000745817400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85122950114