Associations between Forest Type and Invertebrates: Ground Beetle Community Patterns in a Natural Oakwood and Juxtaposed Conifer Plantations |
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| Authors: | DAY K R; MARSHALL S; HEANEY C |
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| Institution: | Applied Ecology Research Group, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster Coleraine, BT52 ISA, Northern Ireland |
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| Abstract: | The character of carabid communities in juxtaposed conifer plantationand natural oak woodland was assessed and each found to be quitedistinctive. Distinctions arose from the differential abundanceof species and a lower species number in the natural oak woodland.Species at sample sites in the oak woodland, occurred with atleast equal frequency at sites in the conifer plantations. Therelatively species rich communities of ground beetles in areasafforested with conifers may have been derived partly from uplandblanket peat and heath, and partly from older woodland. At thetransition zone between the two main woodland types there wasan abrupt change in community character but none of the changesin species abundance could be interpreted as being detrimentalto the quality of carabid fauna in the oak woodland. |
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