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Title: | Long-term ant community responses to selective harvesting of timber from Spotted Gum ('Corymbia variegata')-dominated forests in south-east Queensland | Contributor(s): | Vanderwoude, Cas (author); Lobry De Bruyn, Lisa (author) ; House, Alan (author) | Publication Date: | 2000 | DOI: | 10.1046/j.1442-8903.2000.00054.x | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21510 | Abstract: | The conservation of biological diversity is a fundamental consideration in the management of production forests in eastern Australia. Invertebrate communities make up the bulk of diversity in these forests, yet few studies have been conducted to determine what impact, if any, timber harvesting may have on their structure, dynamics or diversity. We report here on a space-for-time study conducted in an open eucalypt production forest in south-east Queensland that investigated the long-term effects of selective timber harvesting on the ground-active ant community. Over a notional 30-40 year logging cycle, there were significant changes in the composition of ant functional groups, no significant changes to ant abundance and a weak trend to reduced ant species richness as time since harvesting increased. However, when ant community composition was compared with logging history and other environmental variables using a range of statistical tests, only small changes in ant community composition were attributable to timber harvesting. This suggested that the ant community was at least partially controlled by factors other than management history or the environmental variables measured in this study. The diversity, abundance and organization of ant communities is therefore unlikely to be detrimentally affected by selective harvesting of timber, as currently practiced in state-owned forests in south-east Queensland. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Ecological Management & Restoration, 1(3), p. 204-213 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1442-8903 1442-7001 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 060202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology) 050103 Invasive Species Ecology 050102 Ecosystem Function |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 960806 Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity 960505 Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Forest and Woodlands Environments 970105 Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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