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Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Bark Beetles Increase Biodiversity While Maintaining Drinking Water Quality
Bark Beetles Increase Biodiversity While Maintaining Drinking Water Quality
Autor:innen
Herausgeber
Quelle
Conservation letters
(2015), [online article]
(2015), [online article]
Schlagwörter
Forschungskennzahl (FKZ)
Verbundene Publikation
Zitation
Bark Beetles Increase Biodiversity While Maintaining Drinking Water Quality, 2015. Conservation letters [online]. Bd. (2015), [online article]. DOI 10.60810/openumwelt-1720. Verfügbar unter: https://openumwelt.de/handle/123456789/8384
Zusammenfassung englisch
Increasing natural disturbances in conifer forests worldwide complicate political decisions about appropriate land management. In particular, allowing insects to kill trees without intervention has intensified public debate over the dual roles of strictly protected areas to sustain ecosystem services and to conserve biodiversity. Here we show that after large scale bark beetle Ips typographusinfestation in spruce Picea abiesforests in southeastern Germany, maximum nitrate concentrations in runoff used for drinking water increased significantly but only temporarily at the headwater scale. Moreover, this major criterion of water quality remained consistently far below the limit recommended by the World Health Organization. At the same time, biodiversity, including numbers of Red-listed species, increased for most taxa across a broad range of lineages. Our study provides strong support for a policy to allow natural disturbance-recovery processes to operate unimpeded in conifer-dominated mountain forests, especially within protected areas. Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com