What Works in Conservation 2021
| , , ,1. Amphibian conservation
1.5 Threat: Biological resource use
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1.5.1 Hunting and collecting terrestrial animals
Likely to be beneficial
Reduce impact of amphibian trade
1One review found that reducing trade through legislation allowed frog populations to recover from over-exploitation. Assessment: likely to be beneficial (eflectiveness 76 %; certainty 40 %; harms 0 %).
http://www.conservationevidence.com/actions/824
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence)
Use legislative regulation to protect wild populations
2One review found that legislation to reduce trade resulted in the recovery of frog populations. One study in South Africa found that the number of permits issued for scientific and educational use of amphibians increased from 1987 to 1990. Assessment: unknown eflectiveness — limited evidence (eflectiveness 60 %; certainty 30 %; harms 5 %).
http://www.conservationevidence.com/actions/785
No evidence found (no assessment)
3We have captured no evidence for the following interventions:
- Commercially breed amphibians for the pet trade
- Use amphibians sustainably
1.5.2 Logging and wood harvesting
Likely to be beneficial
Retain riparian buffer strips during timber harvest
4Six replicated and/or controlled studies in Canada and the USA compared amphibian numbers following clearcutting with or without riparian buffer strips. Five found mixed effects and one found that abundance was higher with riparian buffers. Two of four replicated studies, including one randomized, controlled, before-and-after study, in Canada and the USA found that numbers of species and abundance were greater in wider buffer strips. Two found no effect of buffer width. Assessment: likely to be beneficial (eflectiveness 50 %; certainty 61 %; harms 10 %).
http://www.conservationevidence.com/actions/747
Use shelterwood harvesting instead of clearcutting
5Three studies, including two randomized, replicated, controlled, before-and-after studies, in the USA found that compared to clearcutting, shelterwood harvesting resulted in higher or similar salamander abundance. One meta-analysis of studies in North America found that partial harvest, which included shelterwood harvesting, resulted in smaller reductions in salamander populations than clearcutting. Assessment: likely to be beneficial (eflectiveness 40 %; certainty 57 %; harms 10 %).
http://www.conservationevidence.com/actions/851
Trade-off between benefit and harms
Leave coarse woody debris in forests
6Two replicated, controlled studies in the USA found that abundance was similar in clearcuts with woody debris retained or removed for eight of nine amphibian species, but that the overall response of amphibians was more negative where woody debris was retained. Two replicated, controlled studies in the USA and Indonesia found that the removal of coarse woody debris from standing forest did not affect amphibian diversity or overall amphibian abundance, but did reduce species richness. One replicated, controlled study in the USA found that migrating amphibians used clearcuts where woody debris was retained more than where it was removed. One replicated, site comparison study in the USA found that within clearcut forest, survival of juvenile amphibians was significantly higher within piles of woody debris than in open areas. Assessment: trade-ofls between benefits and harms (eflectiveness 40 %; certainty 60 %; harms 26 %).
http://www.conservationevidence.com/actions/843
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence)
Use patch retention harvesting instead of clearcutting
7We found no evidence for the effect of retaining patches of trees rather than clearcutting on amphibian populations. One replicated study in Canada found that although released red-legged frogs did not move towards retained tree patches, large patches were selected more and moved out of less than small patches. Assessment: unknown eflectiveness — limited evidence (eflectiveness 20 %; certainty 25 %; harms 0 %).
http://www.conservationevidence.com/actions/847
Unlikely to be beneficial
Leave standing deadwood/snags in forests
8One randomized, replicated, controlled, before-and-after study in the USA found that compared to total clearcutting, leaving dead and wildlife trees did not result in higher abundances of salamanders. One randomized, replicated, controlled study in the USA found that numbers of amphibians and species were similar with removal or creation of dead trees within forest. Assessment: unlikely to be beneficial (eflectiveness 5 %; certainty 58 %; harms 2 %).
http://www.conservationevidence.com/actions/845
Use leave-tree harvesting instead of clearcutting
9Two studies, including one randomized, replicated, controlled, before-and-after study, in the USA found that compared to clearcutting, leaving a low density of trees during harvest did not result in higher salamander abundance. Assessment: unlikely to be beneficial (eflectiveness 10 %; certainty 48 %; harms 11 %).
http://www.conservationevidence.com/actions/846
Likely to be ineffective or harmful
Harvest groups of trees instead of clearcutting
10Three studies, including two randomized, replicated, controlled, before-and-after studies, in the USA found that harvesting trees in small groups resulted in similar amphibian abundance to clearcutting. One meta-analysis and one randomized, replicated, controlled, before-and-after study in North America and the USA found that harvesting, which included harvesting groups of trees, resulted in smaller reductions in salamander populations than clearcutting. Assessment: likely to be ineflective or harmful (eflectiveness 33 %; certainty 60 %; harms 23 %).
http://www.conservationevidence.com/actions/844
Thin trees within forests
11Six studies, including five replicated and/or controlled studies, in the USA compared amphibians in thinned to unharvested forest. Three found that thinning had mixed effects and one found no effect on abundance. One found that amphibian abundance increased following thinning but the body condition of ensatina salamanders decreased. One found a negative overall response of amphibians. Four studies, including two replicated, controlled studies, in the USA compared amphibians in thinned to clearcut forest. Two found that thinning had mixed effects on abundance and two found higher amphibian abundance or a less negative overall response of amphibians following thinning. One meta-analysis of studies in North America found that partial harvest, which included thinning, decreased salamander populations, but resulted in smaller reductions than clearcutting. Assessment: likely to be ineflective or harmful (eflectiveness 35 %; certainty 60 %; harms 40 %).
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