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Responses of eight boreal flat bug (Heteroptera: Aradidae) species to clear-cutting and forest fire

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Boreal flat bugs include a high proportion of species that are considered negatively affected by forestry. Knowledge on the biology and habitat demands of individual species is generally limited. We examined the influence on flat bugs of stand-age and clear-cutting, comparing five classes of spruce stands. The five classes were: clear-cut, unthinned, and thinned (all three products of current clear-cutting forestry), mature managed and old-growth stands (these two had never been clear-cut). We also compared unburned and recently burned mature pine forest. Fire, but not stand age, had a pronounced effect on species richness and total abundance. Aradus depressus showed a significant association with older forest stands. Aradus betulae occurred only in clear-cuts and burned forest indicating that this species is favored by disturbance in general. Aradus lugubris, Aradus crenaticollis and Aradus brevicollis were found only in the burned forest. Aradus brevicollis has not previously been shown to be associated with fire.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the people that helped out in the field especially Jon Andersson, Ferry Einarsson and Nina Stenbacka. We also thank Roger Pettersson for determination of the flat bugs and Carl-Cedric Coulianos for valuable information on flat bug biology. The forest companies Sveaskog, Holmen skog and SCA provided field sites and maps. Frauke Ecke commented an early version of the manuscript. The study was financed by the Kempe Foundation (grant to Joakim Hjältén), FORMAS (grants to Joakim Hjältén and Frauke Ecke) and Sveaskog (grant to Frauke Ecke).

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  1. Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden

    Therese Johansson, Joakim Hjältén, Fredrik Stenbacka & Mats Dynesius

  2. Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden

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Johansson, T., Hjältén, J., Stenbacka, F. et al. Responses of eight boreal flat bug (Heteroptera: Aradidae) species to clear-cutting and forest fire. J Insect Conserv 14, 3–9 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-009-9218-1

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