Näytä suppeat kuvailutiedot

dc.contributor.authorPunttila, Pekka
dc.contributor.authorAutio, Olli
dc.contributor.authorKotiaho, Janne Sakari
dc.contributor.authorKotze, D. Johan
dc.contributor.authorLoukola, Olli J.
dc.contributor.authorNoreika, Norbertas
dc.contributor.authorVuori, Anna
dc.contributor.authorVepsäläinen, Kari
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-04T05:44:49Z
dc.date.available2016-07-04T05:44:49Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationPunttila, P., Autio, O., Kotiaho, J. S., Kotze, D. J., Loukola, O. J., Noreika, N., Vuori, A., & Vepsäläinen, K. (2016). The effects of drainage and restoration of pine mires on habitat structure, vegetation and ants. <i>Silva Fennica</i>, <i>50</i>(2), Article 1462. <a href="https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.1462" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.1462</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_25556929
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_69231
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/50702
dc.description.abstractHabitat loss and degradation are the main threats to biodiversity worldwide. For example, nearly 80% of peatlands in southern Finland have been drained. There is thus a need to safeguard the remaining pristine mires and to restore degraded ones.Ants play a pivotal role in many ecosystems and like many keystone plant species, shape ecosystem conditions for other biota. The effects of mire restoration and subsequent vegetation succession on ants, however, are poorly understood. We inventoried tree stands, vegetation, water-table level, and ants (with pitfall traps) in nine mires in southern Finland to explore differences in habitats, vegetation and ant assemblages among pristine, drained (30–40 years ago) and recently restored (1–3 years ago) pine mires. We expected that restoring the water-table level by ditch filling and reconstructing sparse tree stands by cuttings will recover mire vegetation and ants. We found predictable responses in habitat structure, floristic composition and ant assemblage structure both to drainage and restoration. However, for mire-specialist ants the results were variable and longer-term monitoring is needed to confirm the success of restoration since these social insects establish perennial colonies with long colony cycles. We conclude that restoring the water-table level and tree stand structure seem to recover the characteristic vegetation and ant assemblages in the short term. This recovery was likely enhanced because drained mires still had both acrotelm and catotelm, and connectedness was still reasonable for mire organisms to recolonize the restored mires either from local refugia or from populations of nearby mires.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSuomen Metsätieteellinen Seura; Luonnonvarakeskus
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSilva Fennica
dc.subject.otherAichi Biodiversity Target 15
dc.subject.otherditching
dc.subject.otherecological restoration
dc.subject.otherFormicidae
dc.subject.otherpine bogs and fens
dc.subject.othertransforming and transformed drained mires
dc.subject.otherwater-table level
dc.titleThe effects of drainage and restoration of pine mires on habitat structure, vegetation and ants
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201607013452
dc.contributor.laitosBio- ja ympäristötieteiden laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Biological and Environmental Scienceen
dc.contributor.oppiaineEkologia ja evoluutiobiologiafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineEcology and Evolutionary Biologyen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2016-07-01T12:15:49Z
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.relation.issn0037-5330
dc.relation.numberinseries2
dc.relation.volume50
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© the Authors, 2016. This is an open access article published by the Finnish Society of Forest Science and the Finnish Forest Research Institute.
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.relation.doi10.14214/sf.1462
dc.type.okmA1


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