Arvin Khachikian

Rivera -4

10/6/13

Current Event

Heavily logged forests

Heavily logged forests have a limited value for

conservation. The trees that grow and thrive in a heavily

logged forest have very little value for timber, carbon or

biodiversity. A research that monitored bats, as a marker for

environmental change was the first of its species to have

wildlife in logged forests more that two times. Dr. Struebig, a

lecturer in Biological Conservation said that recent studies

emphasized similar species that live in unlogged and logged

forests to become resilient even in forests that dont even

resemble as a forest.

Dr. Struebigs team viewed some forests along a slope of

disturbances involving logging which ranged from mint

forests to heavily degraded forests. They discovered that

there was an incremental decline of some bat species. The

most vulnerable bats tended to nest in the cavities of old

trees. Based on the teams research, they found out the

reason of the gradual emigration of animals in logged

forests. The logging damaged forest structure and the

availability of tree cavities. Due to this, efforts will be made

to restore these forests.

This is important to us because it shows how a habitat

could determine whether or not animals will immigrate into it

or emigrate out of it.