Insects benefit from forests that have been destroyed by a storm. This is now demonstrated by a new Swiss study, for which a research team has investigated storm areas for more than 20 years.
Accordingly, the variety of insects increases considerably in the first years after a hurricane in the forest. After the winter storms Vivian (1990) and Lothar (1999), the researchers put various insect traps on storm surfaces and intact. The fallen trees were cleaned up on part of the surfaces and they stayed on another.
In total, the research team collected more than 500,000 insects, spiders and other limb feet from more than 1,600 different species. In destroyed areas, biodiversity was higher than in the forest that had survived storms intact. “After an ecological disorder, data on arthropods have been collected for 20 years at regular intervals,” said the main author Beat Wermelinger.
Effect also 20 years after Sturm
In particular endangered species such as the Great Zangema and the wall were found more often on unpaid storm surfaces. Even 20 years after the storms, this effect was still noticeable.
Source: Krone
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