INECOA   26036
INSTITUTO DE ECORREGIONES ANDINAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
An assessment of the availability of cavities for secondary cavity-nesting birds in certified and conventionally-logged neotropical rainforests
Autor/es:
SCHAAF, ALEJANDRO A.; VIVANCO, CONSTANZA G.; SCHAAF, ALEJANDRO A.; VIVANCO, CONSTANZA G.; RUGGERA, ROMÁN A.; POLITI, NATALIA; RUGGERA, ROMÁN A.; POLITI, NATALIA; TALLEI, EVER; RIVERA, LUIS; TALLEI, EVER; RIVERA, LUIS
Revista:
IForest
Editorial:
SISEF - Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology
Referencias:
Año: 2020 vol. 13 p. 318 - 322
Resumen:
The high level of forest intervention and the decrease in biodiversity as a re-sult of logging are incentives to implement forest certification schemes. De-spite the advances in the results of the impact of forest certification on biodi-versity, there are few studies on species with specific habits, such as cavity-nesting birds. The objective of this study is to compare the impact of forest certification and conventional logging on the richness, availability (density) and dominance of potentially suitable cavity trees for secondary cavity-nesting birds in the subtropical forests of northwestern Argentina. Seven sites were selected: three control sites which were not logged for at least 40 years, one site under Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, and three sites with conventional logging. The results suggest that logged forests under FSC-certifi-cation may guarantee a diversity, availability (density) and dominance of potentially suitable cavity trees for secondary cavity-nesting birds, as well as certain characteristics (such as DBH > 40 cm), similar to unlogged forests for this group of birds. Therefore, we suggest that the forests of northwestern Argentina should be managed by a scheme under forest certification so that the high levels of cavity tree species are maintained.