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Tropical forests are thermally buffered despite intensive selective logging.

Rebecca A Senior¹, Jane K Hill², Suzan Benedick³

¹Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

Global Change Biology

|October 21, 2017

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Selectively logged tropical rainforests maintain thermal buffering similar to primary forests. This suggests logged forests are crucial for conserving temperature-sensitive species facing climate change.

Keywords:

climate change land-use change microclimate microhabitat selective logging thermal buffering thermal camera tropics

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Area of Science:

Ecology
Conservation Biology
Climate Change Science

Background:

Tropical rainforests face degradation from selective logging.
Logged forests are vital refugia for biodiversity.
Understanding thermal buffering in logged forests is crucial for climate change adaptation.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare thermal buffering potential between primary and selectively logged forests.
To assess the impact of logging on microclimate availability and stability.
To determine the role of logged forests in retaining temperature-sensitive species.

Main Methods:

Compared macroclimate and microclimate temperatures in primary and logged forests.
Utilized thermal imaging for forest floor microclimates.
Employed dataloggers in deadwood, tree holes, and leaf litter.

Main Results:

Selective logging had minimal impact on thermal buffering capacity.
Microclimate temperatures and availability were similar between forest types.
Differences in warming were negligible (<0.1°C) despite structural changes.

Conclusions:

Selectively logged forests offer comparable thermal buffering to primary forests.
Logged forests can significantly contribute to biodiversity conservation under climate change.
These forests are vital for retaining temperature-sensitive species.