Perspectives on Piciformes: impacts on biodiversity from holes to whole landscapes
Vierling, K., Hudak, A., Jarolimek, J., Jusino, M., Lorenz, T., Silva, C., Stitt, J., Swift, C. and Vierling, L. (2018). Perspectives on Piciformes: impacts on biodiversity from holes to whole landscapes. 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. doi: 10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107240
Tekijät
Päivämäärä
2018Tekijänoikeudet
© the Authors, 2018
The development of tools that accurately describe relationships between woodpeckers and their environment is important for natural resource management, since woodpecker cavities can be used by a diversity of animals. We can use molecular tools to identify patterns of within-cavity diversity, and remote sensing tools can assist in characterizing the environments associated with woodpeckers and the cavities they create. Our objectives were to: 1) use molecular methods to describe some aspects of the diversity found within cavities, 2) describe lidar-based tools that can be used to measure small structures such as cavities, and 3) explore how lidar technologies can be used to explore woodpecker-associated diversity from the cavity to the landscape. In Washington and Idaho (USA), we used molecular approaches, bird surveys, and a variety of remote sensing tools to examine relationships between woodpeckers and diversity in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests. We characterized the fungal communities in recently excavated cavities (n=31) of four different woodpecker species and compared those fungal communities with those from unexcavated trees (n=31). Fungal community composition differed between cavities and unexcavated trees, and finer-scale differences were seen between cavities of different excavators. At the cavity scale, we used a lidar (i.e. laser-based) smartphone device and app called the Spike by ikeGPS to measure known cavity entrance dimensions as small as 3cm by 3.5cm. Such information is important because the size of the cavity entrance influences cavity accessibility for different users. Additionally, cavity entrance sizes might influence microclimate characteristics, which could be particularly important for groups such as fungi. The Spike device was highly accurate in measuring cavity entrance dimensions within 30m of a target cavity and up to 15m above the ground (r=0.91). Using airborne lidar remote sensing, we modeled and mapped both woodpecker species richness and total bird species richness across an aspen-conifer gradient using the program RandomForest. We then examined the spatial congruence between woodpecker richness and overall bird species richness, and we found a high correlation (r=0.71) between woodpecker species richness and total avian species richness. Woodpeckers can be considered surrogates for diversity, and the integration of multiple tools and approaches to further understand the relationships between woodpeckers and their environment will improve conservation in the context of changing forest management practices and changing climates.
...
Julkaisija
Open Science Centre, University of JyväskyläKonferenssi
ECCB2018: 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. 12th - 15th of June 2018, Jyväskylä, Finland
Alkuperäislähde
https://peerageofscience.org/conference/eccb2018/107240/Metadata
Näytä kaikki kuvailutiedotKokoelmat
- ECCB 2018 [712]
Lisenssi
Samankaltainen aineisto
Näytetään aineistoja, joilla on samankaltainen nimeke tai asiasanat.
-
The importance current and historical landscape structure and biodiversity on the provision of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes with high conservation values
Hernández-Agramonte, Ignacio M.; Prangel, Elisabeth; Kasari, Liis; Helm, Aveliina (Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Calcareous semi-natural alvar grasslands in Estonia have lost up to 80% of their area since the 1930s due to changes in human activities and land use. Recently, under the European Union LIFE+ Nature project "Life to alvars", ... -
Distribution of biodiversity in managed landscapes – can remotely sensed data be used to find biodiversity hot-spots?
Lövroth, Therese; Hjältén, Joakim; Roberge, Jean-Michel; Olsson, Jörgen; Lindberg, Eva; Dynesius, Mats (Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Management of boreal forests for timber production has caused changes in forest structures and disturbance regimes, which have influenced distribution patterns and abundance for a wide range of organisms. The aim of this ... -
Local biodiversity erosion in South Brazilian grasslands under moderate levels of landscape habitat loss
Staude, Ingmar; Vélez-Martin, Eduardo; Andrade, Bianca O.; Podgaiski, Luciana Regina; Boldrini, Ilsi I.; Mendonça Jr., Milton; Pillar, Valério; Overbeck, Gerhard E. (Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Habitat loss is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, causing negative effects on the biodiversity of natural vegetation remnants. Brazil’s southern grasslands belong to one of the largest temperate grassland regions ... -
Landscape level conservation needs more than a plan: understanding conditions for forest biodiversity governance
Primmer, Eeva (Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Despite the introductory and concluding remarks in most conservation papers and funding applications, the main bottleneck for applying knowledge towards effective conservation is not our understanding of forest structures ... -
Conserving biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: a win-win for farmer and wildlife?
Fijen, Thijs; Scheper, Jeroen; Kleijn, David (Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Although agriculture depends critically on biodiversity-based ecosystem services such as insect pollination, conservation of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes has seen little uptake by the agricultural sector. We ...
Ellei toisin mainittu, julkisesti saatavilla olevia JYX-metatietoja (poislukien tiivistelmät) saa vapaasti uudelleenkäyttää CC0-lisenssillä.