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Effects of logging on woodpeckers in a Malaysian rain forest: the relationship between resource availability and woodpecker abundance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2004

Alison R. Styring  and
Mohamed Zakaria bin Hussin
Alison R. Styring
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Mohamed Zakaria bin Hussin
Affiliation:
Department of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, West Malaysia
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Abstract

We investigated the microhabitat preferences and relative abundances of 13 species of woodpecker in Sungai Lalang Forest Reserve, West Malaysia. The availability of suitable microhabitat corresponded strongly with woodpecker abundance, and snags were the most highly preferred foraging substrate across species and study sites. Large amounts of necromass, including snags, were present in 5-y-old logged and unlogged forest, but dead wood was in low abundance in 10-y-old logged forest. The absence or scarcity of large, snag-foraging woodpeckers from older logged stands suggests that this resource may remain in low abundance for a considerable time.

Keywords

loggingwoodpeckerMalaysia
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , September 2004 , pp. 495 - 504
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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