Plantation Forests and Biodiversity: Oxymoron or Opportunity?

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Plantation forests and biodiversity: oxymoron or opportunity?

   • Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, Hervé Jactel, John A. Parrotta, Christopher P. Quine, Jeffrey Sayer

   Pages 1-27

3. Epiphytes of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) plantations in Ireland and the effects of open spaces

   • Linda Coote, George F. Smith, Daniel L. Kelly, Saoirse O’Donoghue, Paul Dowding, Susan Iremonger et al.

   Pages 29-44

4. Bird assemblages in pine plantations replacing native ecosystems in NW Patagonia

   • María Victoria Lantschner, Verónica Rusch, Celina Peyrou

   Pages 45-65

5. Identifying practical indicators of biodiversity for stand-level management of plantation forests

   • George F. Smith, Tom Gittings, Mark Wilson, Laura French, Anne Oxbrough, Saoirse O’Donoghue et al.

   Pages 67-91

6. Options for biodiversity conservation in managed forest landscapes of multiple ownerships in Oregon and Washington, USA

   • Nobuya Suzuki, Deanna H. Olson

   Pages 93-115

7. Impact of four silvicultural systems on birds in the Belgian Ardenne: implications for biodiversity in plantation forests

   • Gaëtan du Bus de Warnaffe, Marc Deconchat

   Pages 117-131

8. The early effects of afforestation on biodiversity of grasslands in Ireland

   • Erika Buscardo, George F. Smith, Daniel L. Kelly, Helena Freitas, Susan Iremonger, Fraser J. G. Mitchell et al.

   Pages 133-148

9. Multi-scale habitat selection and foraging ecology of the eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) in pine plantations

   • Luc Barbaro, Laurent Couzi, Vincent Bretagnolle, Julien Nezan, Fabrice Vetillard

   Pages 149-163

10. Diversity and composition of fruit-feeding butterflies in tropical Eucalyptus plantations

    • Jos Barlow, Ivanei S. Araujo, William L. Overal, Toby A. Gardner, Fernanda da Silva Mendes, Iain R. Lake et al.

    Pages 165-180

11. Impact of landscape and corridor design on primates in a large-scale industrial tropical plantation landscape

    • Robert Nasi, Piia Koponen, John G. Poulsen, Melanie Buitenzorgy, W. Rusmantoro

    Pages 181-202

12. Non-native plantation forests as alternative habitat for native forest beetles in a heavily modified landscape

    • Stephen M. Pawson, Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, Esther D. Meenken, Raphael K. Didham

    Pages 203-224

13. Importance of semi-natural habitats for the conservation of butterfly communities in landscapes dominated by pine plantations

    • Inge van Halder, Luc Barbaro, Emmanuel Corcket, Hervé Jactel

    Pages 225-245

14. Relevance of exotic pine plantations as a surrogate habitat for ground beetles (Carabidae) where native forest is rare

    • Lisa A. Berndt, Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, Hervé Jactel

    Pages 247-261

15. Stand-level management of plantations to improve biodiversity values

    • Jason Cummings, Nick Reid

    Pages 263-287

1 Plantation forests and biodiversity: Oxymoron or opportunity? Forests form the natural vegetation over much of the Earth’s land, and they are critical for the survival of innumerable organisms. The ongoing loss of natural forests, which in some regions may have taken many millennia to develop, is one of the main reasons for the decline of biodiversity. Preventing the further destruction of forests and protecting species and ecosystems within forests have become central issues for environmental agencies, forest managers, and gove- ments. In this di?cult task science has an important role in informing policy and management as to how to go about this. So how do industrial and other pl- tation forests ?t into this? Plantation forests, comprised of rows of planted trees that may be destined for pulp or sawmills after only a few years of growth, appear to have little to c- tribute to the conservation of biodiversity. Yet there is more to this than meets the eye (of the casual observer), and there are indeed numerous opportunities, and often untapped potential, for biodiversity conservation in plantation forestry. With plantation forests expanding at a rate of approximately three million hectares per year, it is crucial to understand how plantations can make a positive contribution to biodiversity conservation and how the potentially negative impacts of this land use can be minimised. That is the topic of this book.

• Afforestation
• Biodiversity conservation
• Conservation biology
• Forest management
• Landscape ecology
• Plantation forests
• biodiversity
• ecology
• ecosystem
• forest

• Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute), Christchurch, New Zealand

  Eckehard G. Brockerhoff

• INRA, Cestas Cedex, France

  Hervé Jactel

• U.S. Forest Service Research & Development, Arlington, USA

  John A. Parrotta

• Forest Research Northern Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian, United Kingdom

  Christopher P. Quine

• IUCN The World Conservation Union Forest Conservation, Gland, Switzerland

  Jeffrey Sayer

• Dept. Biología Vegetal II, Universidad Complutense Fac. Farmacia, Madrid, Spain

  David L. Hawksworth

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