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dc.creatorMartínez-Falcón,Ana P
dc.creatorMoreno,Claudia E
dc.creatorPavón,Numa P
dc.date2015-01-01
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-12T02:00:37Z
dc.date.available2019-06-12T02:00:37Z
dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-92002015000100009
dc.identifier.urihttps://bibliotecadigital.infor.cl/handle/20.500.12220/28926
dc.descriptionWe analyzed the effect of selective logging on litter fauna parameters (abundance, richness and diversity) and litter decomposition (remaining dry mass) over time in a temperate pine-oak (Pinus spp.-Quercus spp.) forest in central México. An unmanaged and a managed forest were compared using a litter bag field experiment. Litter fauna was quantified to the levels of families and morphospecies. Litter fauna abundance, richness and diversity were higher in the unmanaged forest. The remaining dry mass of litter and the decomposition rates were statistically different between the two forests, suggesting that selective logging practices reduce decomposition processes. The remaining dry mass of litter was negatively correlated with fauna richness in the managed forest, and with both morphospecies richness and diversity at the unmanaged forest; indicating that as biodiversity increases, more litter might be decomposed. Both litter fauna diversity and the litter decay processes were better preserved in the unmanaged site, as compared with the selective logged forest. Our study reveals that leaving some pine-oak forest patches unmanaged is important for the protection of their biodiversity.
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales
dc.relation10.4067/S0717-92002015000100009
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceBosque (Valdivia) v.36 n.1 2015
dc.subjectMexican temperate forests
dc.subjectselective logging
dc.subjectsoil fauna diversity
dc.subjectlitter remaining dry mass
dc.titleLitter fauna communities and litter decomposition in a selectively logged and an unmanaged pine-oak forest in Mexico
dc.typeArtículo de revista


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