Bird Diversity as a Support Decision Tool for Sustainable Management in Temperate Forested Floodplain Landscapes

Ivo Machar, Karel Poprach, Jaromir Harmacek and Jitka Fialova
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Ivo Machar: Faculty of Science, Department of Development and Environmental Studies, Palacky University Olomouc, 771 47 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Karel Poprach: Faculty of Science, Department of Development and Environmental Studies, Palacky University Olomouc, 771 47 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Jaromir Harmacek: Faculty of Science, Department of Development and Environmental Studies, Palacky University Olomouc, 771 47 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Jitka Fialova: Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Landscape Management, Mendel University Brno, 613 00 Brno-sever-Černá Pole, Czech Republic

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: Sustainably managed forests provide multiple ecosystem services in cultural landscapes, including maintaining biodiversity. Better understanding of the benefits regarding the biodiversity of different silvicultural practices is important for sustainable landscape management. Conservation targets in forested landscapes should be determined by land managers and policy-makers, based on serious ecological research. This study deals with response of bird diversity to three different habitat types of temperate hardwood floodplain forests, which reflect specific forms of forest management. Research was based on long-term field bird census in the years 1998 to 2002 applying the point count method. Data was analysed using regression analysis with dummy variables. The results of the study indicate that hardwood floodplain forest heterogeneity, supported by different types of forest management (old-growth forest protection, group-selection harvesting and forest edge protection), provides large-scale habitat mosaic conditions suitable for many breeding bird species with different ecological niches. This result suggests that comparison of bird diversity response to different forest management types can be used as a decision support tool for sustainable landscape management strategy and local management practices in forested cultural lowland landscapes. Improvements in both regional and local ecological knowledge are generally needed in order to control floodplain land use decisions, which are typically made on the scale of landscape management.

Keywords: group-selection harvesting; hardwood floodplain forest; forest edge; old-growth forest; regression analysis with dummy variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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