Community reestablishment and poor body conditions of small mammal assemblages in subtropical afforested ecosystems

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2019.04.031

	Community reestablishment and poor body conditions of small mammal assemblages in subtropical afforested ecosystems
	Wu, Nan 1; Zhong, Jie ; Lei, Boyu 1; Xie, Zongqiang1 ; Zhou, Youbing 1
	2019
发表期刊	ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
ISSN	0925-8574
卷号	135 页码:1-7
摘要	Afforestation is one of the high-efficiency practices for the restoration of degraded forest ecosystems and has been increasingly used worldwide. It is crucial to determine the restoration status of wildlife in afforested forests to effectively monitor biodiversity conservation and the self-sustainability of forest ecosystems, as well as to effectively guide the implementation of afforestation projects in the future. China has the largest area of manmade forests around the world, but the effects of the restoration efforts on the faunal diversity in artificial woodlands are unclear. Here, we evaluated the effects of afforestation practices on small mammals in two types of planted forests: Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi, an introduced species) and China Armand pine (Pinus armandii, a native species) plantations, and two reference forests: young- and old-growth forests, at the community, population, and individual levels. The diversity of small mammals did not differ significantly among the four forest types and the population densities of small mammals in two plantations were between the young- and old-growth forests. Collectively, our findings indicated that small mammal assemblages had reestablished in afforested forests. Four body condition indices were measured in the Chinese while-bellied rat (Niviventer confucianus), a predominant species, and differences were found between afforested and reference forests. Chinese while-bellied rats had the lowest body masses and highest endoparasite loads in the Japanese larch planted forest, while body length or carcass mass did not differ among the four forest types. In comparison, study rats had slightly lower body masses and lower endoparasite loads in the China Armand pine planted forest than reference forests. These findings indicated that small mammals inhabiting both types of afforested forests had poor body conditions but these trends were worse in the Japanese larch planted forest, i.e., the introduced species. Given that afforestation is a widespread practice for global forest landscape restoration, we propose two suggestions to guide afforestation efforts and the subsequent management thereof: (1) native species rather than exotic species are preferable for use in afforestation projects, and (2) wildlife diversity in afforested forests should be considered when monitoring the restoration and management of degraded forest ecosystems.
关键词	Afforestation Body condition Degraded forests Exotic species Native species Small mammal
学科领域	Ecology ; Engineering, Environmental ; Environmental Sciences
DOI	10.1016/j.ecoleng.2019.04.031
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS关键词	SOIL-EROSION ; SEX-RATIO ; FOREST ; PLANTATION ; DIVERSITY ; HABITAT ; BIODIVERSITY ; MAINTENANCE ; LANDSCAPE ; RODENTS
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Engineering
WOS记录号	WOS:000470235100001
出版者	ELSEVIER
文献子类	Article
出版地	AMSTERDAM
EISSN	1872-6992
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [31470491, 31500359] ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS [2016078] ; Investigation and Assessment of Terrestrial Mammal Diversity in Xingshan County, Hubei Province
作者邮箱	zhouyb@ibcas.ac.cn
引用统计	被引频次：10[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/19509
专题	植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wu, Nan,Zhong, Jie,Lei, Boyu,et al. Community reestablishment and poor body conditions of small mammal assemblages in subtropical afforested ecosystems[J]. ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING,2019,135:1-7.
APA	Wu, Nan,Zhong, Jie,Lei, Boyu,Xie, Zongqiang,&Zhou, Youbing.(2019).Community reestablishment and poor body conditions of small mammal assemblages in subtropical afforested ecosystems.ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING,135,1-7.
MLA	Wu, Nan,et al."Community reestablishment and poor body conditions of small mammal assemblages in subtropical afforested ecosystems".ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 135(2019):1-7.

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