Breakdown and invertebrate colonization of dead wood in wetland, upland, and river habitats.(Report)

Canadian Journal of Forest Research | October 1, 2008| | Copyright

Introduction

Wood debris is an important ecological resource in many habitats. Breakdown rates of wood have been well described in forests (see review by Mackensen et al. 2003) and streams (Diez et al. 2002; Spanhoff and Meyer 2004), and wood breakdown in upland forests can be more rapid than in streams or rivers (Dahlstrom and Nilsson 2006). Recently, researchers have begun to address wood breakdown in wetlands. In a Canadian peatland, Moore et al. (2005) found that wood breakdown rates could be very slow, whereas in a Florida mangrove swamp, Romero et al. (2005) ...

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