The biodiversity contribution of wood plantations: Contrasting the bird communities of Sweden’s protected and production oak forests

摘要: Abstract The oak-dominated woodlands and forests of northern Europe have experienced dramatic declines due to agriculture, urbanization, conifer-dominated production forestry. These losses had a substantial negative impact on biodiversity the large number forest species which depend oak environments provide. Production stands may serve as means supplementing or complementing habitat provided by limited remaining natural remnants in this region. Here we evaluate extent plantations temperate southern Sweden provide resources for bird communities, surveying contrasting composition diversity found mature young (5 8 replicates respectively) protected remnant replicates). possessed community partially overlapping composition, comparable richness (34 species) that within (39 species). Furthermore, surveyed hosted threatened near species, including black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius), goldcrest (Regulus regulus), starling (Sturnus vulgaris), yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella). Though cannot replace forests, these do appear conditions consistent with resource requirements diverse cross-section region, conservation concern. thus capacity make positive contribution conservation, well providing range goods services society.