seriousofficialname t1_j1p7822 wrote
Reply to comment by Creative_soja in Logged forest compared with an unlogged forest could be better for climate change. A detailed assessment of vegetation growth, bird and mammal numbers, and energy flows in logged and unlogged forests offers some surprising findings. by Creative_soja
And I wonder if some of the species in the unlogged forests can't be found in the logged forests.
That would certainly complicate the idea of logging unlogged forests in order to promote diversity.
Creative_soja OP t1_j1p7n1q wrote
It is definitely true for insects and other earth species. And that is a limitation of such studies. For birds and mammals, it is difficult to validate with one study.
seriousofficialname t1_j1p8khw wrote
Maybe the relatively recent logging of the vast majority of Malaysian Borneo's forests might have pushed some species that depend on unlogged ecosystem deeper inland where old forests remain. The old growth forests left in Malaysian Borneo are really the periphery of unlogged forests in Borneo at this point.
I'm still surprised by the results of the study though. I normally think of ecological transition zones as being more diverse.
Cryptid_Chaser t1_j1p8jvd wrote
It’s almost certainly true that at least one species can only thrive in those unlogged spaces, even if a lot of other species can thrive in the second-growth forest.
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