Impact of cogongrass management strategies on generalist predators in cogongrass-infested longleaf pine plantations

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 478-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sallie M Sells ◽  
David W Held ◽  
Stephen F Enloe ◽  
Nancy J Loewenstein ◽  
Lori G Eckhardt
Keyword(s):  
Longleaf Pine ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Pine Plantations ◽  
Generalist Predators

Effect of plantation clearcutting on carnivore presence in industrial forest landscapes in south-central Chile

Mammalia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Sandra P. Escudero-Páez ◽  
Esteban Botero-Delgadillo ◽  
Cristián F. Estades
Keyword(s):  
Puma Concolor ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Domestic Cat ◽  
Pine Plantations ◽  
Domestic Dog ◽  
Native Forest ◽  
Canis Lupus Familiaris ◽  
Central Chile ◽  
South Central ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Information on how wildlife is affected by pine plantation clearcutting is relevant for designing management strategies to promote biodiversity conservation in productive systems. By comparing the number of records of carnivores in a mosaic of pine plantations and native forest remnants before and after pine harvesting, we assessed the effect of plantation clearcutting on carnivore presence in ten sampling areas in Central Chile. We also included a number of covariates to account for their potential confounding effects, for example, the distance between each site and the nearesting human settlement and vegetation cover. A total of 10 species were observed, but no negative effect of clearcutting on carnivore presence was detected. Only the culpeo fox (Lycalopex culpaeus) responded positively to the harvesting of pine plantations. The threatened kodkod (Leopardus guigna) was absent in clearcut areas and the number of records increased in forests or plantations with a dense understorey. The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) responded positively to human settlements and seems to prefer more open areas. The number of records for the Puma (Puma concolor) and the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) was too few, and hence, we could not make any inference regarding these two species. The other species recorded showed different responses to one or more of the included covariates. Although our results showed that the recording of some species could change in the short term after pine harvesting, future studies should assess the impact of clearcutting at a much higher scale, both in terms of space and time.

Ant Communities of Southeastern Longleaf Pine Plantations

1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter G. Whitford ◽  
J. B. Gentry
Keyword(s):  
Longleaf Pine ◽  
Pine Plantations ◽  
Ant Communities

scholarly journals Modeling Survival, Yield, Volume Partitioning and Their Response to Thinning for Longleaf Pine Plantations

Forests ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1104-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Gonzalez-Benecke ◽  
Salvador Gezan ◽  
Daniel Leduc ◽  
Timothy Martin ◽  
Wendell Cropper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longleaf Pine ◽  
Pine Plantations ◽  
Survival Yield

Understory vegetation, resource availability, and litterfall responses to pine thinning and woody vegetation control in longleaf pine plantations

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 1055-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy B Harrington ◽  
M Boyd Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Soil Water Content ◽  
Longleaf Pine ◽  
Species Density ◽  
Pine Plantations ◽  
Woody Vegetation ◽  
Herbaceous Species ◽  
Combined Treatments ◽  
Gap Fraction

In six 8- to 11-year-old plantations of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) near Aiken, S.C., responses of understory vegetation, light, and soil water availability and litterfall were studied in relation to pine thinning (May 1994), herbicidal treatment of nonpine woody vegetation (1995-1996), or the combined treatments (treatment responses described below are in absolute units). Treatment differences in fifth-year (1998) herbaceous species density were as follows: pine thinning > woody control = combined treatments > untreated (33, 30, 30, and 25 species per 40 m2, respectively). Forb and grass covers were 13 and 8% greater, respectively, after pine thinning and 7 and 9% greater after woody control. Pine thinning stimulated a large increase in third-year gap fraction (0.26), short-term increases in soil water content (1%), and a reduction in pine litterfall by half (-120 g·m-2 per year). Woody control had no effect on gap fraction, decreased litterfall of nonpine woody vegetation (-32 g·m-2 per year), and stimulated season-long increases in soil water content (1-2%). The ranking of factors affecting herbaceous vegetation responses was as follows: light > soil water > herbicides > litterfall. Herbaceous species density and cover can be promoted in longleaf pine plantations by intensive thinning of pines and herbicidal control of non-pine woody vegetation.

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