TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yan, Yan
A1  - Hong, Ni
A1  - Chen, Tiansheng
A1  - Li, Mingyou
A1  - Wang, Tiansu
A1  - Guan, Guijun
A1  - Qiao, Yongkang
A1  - Chen, Songlin
A1  - Schartl, Manfred
A1  - Li, Chang-Ming
A1  - Hong, Yunhan
T1  - p53 Gene Targeting by Homologous Recombination in Fish ES Cells
JF  - PLoS One
N2  - Background: Gene targeting (GT) provides a powerful tool for the generation of precise genetic alterations in embryonic stem (ES) cells to elucidate gene function and create animal models for human diseases. This technology has, however, been limited to mouse and rat. We have previously established ES cell lines and procedures for gene transfer and selection for homologous recombination (HR) events in the fish medaka (Oryzias latipes). 
Methodology and Principal Findings: Here we report HR-mediated GT in this organism. We designed a GT vector to disrupt the tumor suppressor gene p53 (also known as tp53). We show that all the three medaka ES cell lines, MES1 similar to MES3, are highly proficient for HR, as they produced detectable HR without drug selection. Furthermore, the positive-negative selection (PNS) procedure enhanced HR by similar to 12 folds. Out of 39 PNS-resistant colonies analyzed, 19 (48.7%) were positive for GT by PCR genotyping. When 11 of the PCR-positive colonies were further analyzed, 6 (54.5%) were found to be bona fide homologous recombinants by Southern blot analysis, sequencing and fluorescent in situ hybridization. This produces a high efficiency of up to 26.6% for p53 GT under PNS conditions. We show that p53 disruption and long-term propagation under drug selection conditions do not compromise the pluripotency, as p53-targeted ES cells retained stable growth, undifferentiated phenotype, pluripotency gene expression profile and differentiation potential in vitro and in vivo. 
Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that medaka ES cells are proficient for HR-mediated GT, offering a first model organism of lower vertebrates towards the development of full ES cell-based GT technology.
KW  - mouse
KW  - in-vitro
KW  - drug selection
KW  - chimera formation
KW  - medakafish oryzias latipes
KW  - embryonic stem-cells
KW  - zebrafish
KW  - differentiation
KW  - cultures
KW  - pluripotency
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-133416
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rodríguez-Mari, Adriana
A1  - Wilson, Catherine
A1  - Titus, Tom A.
A1  - Canestro, Cristian
A1  - BreMiller, Ruth A.
A1  - Yan, Yi-Lin
A1  - Nanda, Indrajit
A1  - Johnston, Adam
A1  - Kanki, John P.
A1  - Gray, Erin M.
A1  - He, Xinjun
A1  - Spitsbergen, Jan
A1  - Schindler, Detlev
A1  - Postlethwait, John H.
T1  - Roles of brca2 (fancd1) in Oocyte Nuclear Architecture, Gametogenesis, Gonad Tumors, and Genome Stability in Zebrafish
JF  - PLoS Genetics
N2  - Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an established optical neuroimaging method for measuring functional hemodynamic responses to infer neural activation. However, the impact of individual anatomy on the sensitivity of fNIRS measuring hemodynamics within cortical gray matter is still unknown. By means of Monte Carlo simulations and structural MRI of 23 healthy subjects (mean age: (25.0 +/- 2.8) years), we characterized the individual distribution of tissue-specific NIR-light absorption underneath 24 prefrontal fNIRS channels. We, thereby, investigated the impact of scalp-cortex distance (SCD), frontal sinus volume as well as sulcal morphology on gray matter volumes (V(gray)) traversed by NIR-light, i.e. anatomy-dependent fNIRS sensitivity. The NIR-light absorption between optodes was distributed describing a rotational ellipsoid with a mean penetration depth of (23.6 +/- 0.7) mm considering the deepest 5% of light. Of the detected photon packages scalp and bone absorbed (96.4 +/- 9: 7)% and V(gray) absorbed (3.1 +/- 1.8)% of the energy. The mean V(gray) volume (1.1 +/- 0.4)cm(3) was negatively correlated (r = - .76) with the SCD and frontal sinus volume (r = - .57) and was reduced by 41.5% in subjects with relatively large compared to small frontal sinus. Head circumference was significantly positively correlated with the mean SCD (r = .46) and the traversed frontal sinus volume (r = .43). Sulcal morphology had no significant impact on V(gray). Our findings suggest to consider individual SCD and frontal sinus volume as anatomical factors impacting fNIRS sensitivity. Head circumference may represent a practical measure to partly control for these sources of error variance.
KW  - oocytes
KW  - zebrafish
KW  - genetic causes of cancer
KW  - testes
KW  - apoptosis
KW  - gonads
KW  - sperm
KW  - embryos
Y1  - 2011
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-142285
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Clauss, Kersten
A1  - Yan, Huimin
A1  - Kuenzer, Claudia
T1  - Mapping Paddy Rice in China in 2002, 2005, 2010 and 2014 with MODIS Time Series
JF  - Remote Sensing
N2  - Rice is an important food crop and a large producer of green-house relevant methane. Accurate and timely maps of paddy fields are most important in the context of food security and greenhouse gas emission modelling. During their life-cycle, rice plants undergo a phenological development that influences their interaction with waves in the visible light and infrared spectrum. Rice growth has a distinctive signature in time series of remotely-sensed data. We used time series of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) products MOD13Q1 and MYD13Q1 and a one-class support vector machine to detect these signatures and classify paddy rice areas in continental China. Based on these classifications, we present a novel product for continental China that shows rice areas for the years 2002, 2005, 2010 and 2014 at 250-m resolution. Our classification has an overall accuracy of 0.90 and a kappa coefficient of 0.77 compared to our own reference dataset for 2014 and correlates highly with rice area statistics from China’s Statistical Yearbooks (R2 of 0.92 for 2010, 0.92 for 2005 and 0.90 for 2002). Moderate resolution time series analysis allows accurate and timely mapping of rice paddies over large areas with diverse cropping schemes.
KW  - agriculture
KW  - rice
KW  - China
KW  - MODIS
KW  - time series
KW  - SVM
KW  - OCSVM
KW  - change detection
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-180557
VL  - 8
IS  - 5
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Mak, Ka Yan
T1  - TFIIIC subunits employ different modes of action for regulating N-MYC
T1  - TFIIIC Untereinheiten verwenden unterschiedliche Wirkungsweisen zur Regulierung von N-MYC
N2  - Amplification of N-MYC is a poor prognostic and survival marker of neuroblastoma. To broaden the scope of knowledge in N-MYC cancer biology, interactors of N-MYC should be investigated. TFIIIC complex was identified as a new protein interacting partner of N-MYC. TFIIIC is a core component of RNAPIII transcription machinery which is important for the synthesis of tRNA genes. TFIIIC recognizes and binds to B-box located internal of tRNA genes which subsequently initiate the RNAPIII transcription process. Apart from the role in RNAPIII transcription machinery, TFIIIC is an architectural protein. TFIIIC binds to thousands of sites across the genome without RNAPIII and TFIIIB. These binding loci are known as Extra TFIIIC (ETC) sites at which TFIIIC perform its role in genome organization. However, knowledge of TFIIIC is mostly restricted to studies conducted in yeasts, the exact function of TFIIIC and how it regulates N-MYC remains to be elucidated. To obtain a better overview about TFIIIC functions, two TFIIIC subunits (TFIIIC5 and TFIIIC2) which represent sub-complexes A and B were chosen for investigation. ChIP-seq experiment of RNAPIII transcription machinery was performed. It showed that both TFIIIC subunits functioned together as a complex. Next, joint binding sites of two TFIIIC subunits and N-MYC were identified. The data revealed that co-occupancies between N-MYC and TFIIIC subunits had different preference on genomic distribution. Furthermore, TFIIIC5 exhibited strong binding association with architectural proteins RAD21 and CTCF whereas TFIIIC2 was only modestly enriched with these two proteins. Both TFIIIC subunits showed equal but weak enrichment with accessory protein CAPH2. Despite the weak association with other architectural proteins, TFIIIC2 binds preferentially to repetitive elements SINE. In order to understand how TFIIIC5 affects other architectural proteins in chromatin binding, cells were depleted of TFIIIC protein upon doxycycline induction of shRNA. N-MYC binding was not affected. Yet, 50% reduction of RAD21 binding to joint N-MYC/TFIIIC sites was noticed. CAPH2 binding was increased at some joint sites while some did not respond. Lastly, CTCF did not show changes in binding under the effect of TFIIIC5 knockdown. In summary, the data indicated TFIIIC subunits from different sub-complexes diverge in functions other than tRNA synthesis. The association of TFIIIC5 with architectural proteins and TFIIIC2 with SINE elements were suggested to be distinct mechanisms to regulate N-Myc directly or indirectly.
N2  - Die Amplifikation von N-MYC ist ein schlechter Prognose- und Überlebensmarker für Neuroblastome. Um den Kenntnisstand über die Krebsbiologie von N-MYC zu erweitern, Interaktoren von N-MYC sollten untersucht werden. Der TFIIIC-Komplex wurde als neuer interaktiver Partner von N-MYC identifiziert. TFIIIC ist eine Kernkomponente der RNAPIIITranskriptionsmaschinerie, die für die Synthese von tRNA-Genen wichtig ist. TFIIIC erkennt
und bindet an B-Box innerhalb von tRNA-Genen, die anschließend den RNAPIIITranskriptionsprozess initiieren. Abgesehen von der Rolle in der RNAPIIITranskriptionsmaschinerie ist TFIIIC ein Architekturprotein. TFIIIC bindet an Tausende von Stellen im gesamten Genom ohne RNAPIII und TFIIIB. Diese Bindungsorte sind als Extra TFIIIC (ETC) -Stellen bekannt, an denen TFIIIC seine Rolle bei der Genomorganisation spielen kann. Das Wissen über TFIIIC beschränkt sich jedoch meist auf Studien, die mit Hefen durchgeführt werden. Die genaue Funktion von TFIIIC und die Art seiner Regulierung von NMYC sind noch zu klären. Um einen besseren Überblick über die TFIIIC-Funktionen zu erhalten, wurden zwei TFIIICUntereinheiten (TFIIIC5 und TFIIIC2) ausgewählt, die die Unterkomplexe A und B
repräsentieren. Es wurde ein ChIP-seq-Experiment der RNAPIII-Transkriptionsmaschinerie durchgeführt. Es zeigte sich, dass beide TFIIIC-Untereinheiten zusammen als Komplex fungierten. Als nächstes wurden gemeinsame Bindungsstellen von zwei TFIIIC-Untereinheiten und N-MYC identifiziert. Die Daten zeigten, dass Co-Besetzungen zwischen N-MYC- und TFIIIC-Untereinheiten unterschiedliche Präferenzen bei der Verteilung von Genom hatten. Darüber hinaus zeigte TFIIIC5 eine starke Bindungsassoziation mit den Architekturproteinen RAD21 und CTCF, während TFIIIC2 mit diesen beiden Proteinen nur wenig angereichert war. Beide TFIIIC-Untereinheiten zeigten eine gleiche, aber schwache Anreicherung mit dem Zusatzprotein CAPH2. Trotz der schwachen Assoziation mit anderen Architekturproteinen bindet TFIIIC2 bevorzugt an repetitive Elemente SINE. Um zu verstehen, wie TFIIIC5 andere Architekturproteine bei der Chromatinbindung beeinflusst, wurden die Zellen bei der Doxycyclin-Induktion von shRNA an TFIIIC-Protein aufgebraucht. Die N-MYC-Bindung war nicht betroffen. Es wurde jedoch eine Verringerung der Bindung von RAD21 an gemeinsame N-MYC / TFIIIC-Stellen um 50% festgestellt. Die CAPH2-Bindung war an einigen gemeinsamen Stellen erhöht, während einige nicht reagierten. Schließlich zeigte CTCF keine Bindungsänderungen unter dem Einfluss von TFIIIC5-Knockdown. Zusammenfassend zeigen die Daten, dass TFIIIC-Untereinheiten aus verschiedenen Unterkomplexen in anderen Funktionen als der tRNA-Synthese voneinander abweichen. Es wurde vermutet, dass die Assoziation von TFIIIC5 mit Architekturproteinen und TFIIIC2 mit SINE-Elementen unterschiedliche Mechanismen sind, um N-Myc direkt oder indirekt zu regulieren.
KW  - neuroblastoma
KW  - TFIIIC
KW  - N-MYC
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-185969
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Li, Gang
A1  - Yan, Binghai
A1  - Thomale, Ronny
A1  - Hanke, Werner
T1  - Topological nature and the multiple Dirac cones hidden in Bismuth high-Tc superconductors
JF  - Scientific Reports
N2  - Recent theoretical studies employing density-functional theory have predicted BaBiO\(_{3}\) (when doped with electrons) and YBiO\(_{3}\) to become a topological insulator (TI) with a large topological gap (~0.7 eV). This, together with the natural stability against surface oxidation, makes the Bismuth-Oxide family of special interest for possible applications in quantum information and spintronics. The central question, we study here, is whether the hole-doped Bismuth Oxides, i.e. Ba\(_{1-X}\)K\(_{X}\)BiO\(_{3}\) and BaPb\(_{1-X}\)Bi\(_{X}\)O\(_{3}\), which are "high-Tc" bulk superconducting near 30 K, additionally display in the further vicinity of their Fermi energy E\(_{F}\) a topological gap with a Dirac-type of topological surface state. Our electronic structure calculations predict the K-doped family to emerge as a TI, with a topological gap above E\(_{F}\). Thus, these compounds can become superconductors with hole-doping and potential TIs with additional electron doping. Furthermore, we predict the Bismuth-Oxide family to contain an additional Dirac cone below E\(_{F}\) for further hole doping, which manifests these systems to be candidates for both electron-and hole-doped topological insulators.
KW  - localized wannier functions
KW  - total energy calculations
KW  - phase transitions
KW  - insulator
KW  - BaPb\(_{1-X}\)Bi\(_{X}\)O\(_{3}\)
KW  - temperature
KW  - system
KW  - wave basis set
KW  - initio molecular dynamics
KW  - diffraction
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-148569
VL  - 5
IS  - 10435
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jain, Preetesh
A1  - Javdan, Mohammad
A1  - Feger, Franziska K.
A1  - Chiu, Pui Yan
A1  - Sison, Cristina
A1  - Damle, Rajendra N.
A1  - Bhuiya, Tawfiqul A.
A1  - Sen, Filiz
A1  - Abruzzo, Lynne V.
A1  - Burger, Jan A.
A1  - Rosenwald, Andreas
A1  - Allen, Steven L.
A1  - Kolitz, Jonathan E.
A1  - Rai, Kanti R.
A1  - Chiorazzi, Nicholas
A1  - Sherry, Barbara
T1  - Th17 and non-Th17 interleukin-17-expressing cells in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: delineation, distribution, and clinical relevance
JF  - Haematologica
N2  - Background The levels and clinical relevance of Th17 cells and other interleukin-17-producing cells have not been analyzed in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The objective of this study was to quantify blood and tissue levels of Th17 and other interleukin-17-producing cells in patients with this disease and correlate blood levels with clinical outcome. 
Design and Methods: Intracellular interleukin-17A was assessed in blood and splenic mononuclear cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and healthy subjects using flow cytometry. Interleukin-17A-producing cells were analyzed in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded spleen and lymph node sections using immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence. 
Results: The absolute numbers of Th17 cells in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and the percentages of Th17 cells in spleen cell suspensions were higher in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia than in healthy subjects; in six out of eight paired chronic lymphocytic leukemia blood and spleen sample comparisons, Th17 cells were enriched in spleen suspensions. Circulating Th17 levels correlated with better prognostic markers and longer overall survival of the patients. Two "non-Th17" interleukin-17-expressing cells were identified in chronic lymphocytic leukemia spleens: proliferating cells of the granulocytic lineage and mature mast cells. Granulocytes and mast cells in normal spleens did not express interleukin-17. Conversely, both chronic lymphocytic leukemia and healthy lymph nodes contained similar numbers of interleukin-17+ mast cells as well as Th17 cells. 
Conclusions: Th17 cells are elevated in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients with better prognostic markers and correlate with longer survival. Furthermore, non-Th17 interleukin-17A-expressing cells exist in chronic lymphocytic leukemia spleens as maturing granulocytes and mature mast cells, suggesting that the microenvironmental milieu in leukemic spleens promotes the recruitment and/or expansion of Th17 and other IL-17-expressing cells. The pathophysiology of Th17 and non-Th17-interleukin-producing cells in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and their distributions and roles in this disease merit further study.
KW  - disease
KW  - helper T cells
KW  - T(H)17 cells
KW  - tumor microenvironment
KW  - multiple myeloma
KW  - up regulation
KW  - mast cells
KW  - lineage
KW  - pathway
KW  - IL-17
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-131290
VL  - 97
IS  - 4
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mueller, Thomas D.
A1  - Fiebig, Juliane E.
A1  - Weidauer, Stella E.
A1  - Qiu, Li-Yan
A1  - Bauer, Markus
A1  - Schmieder, Peter
A1  - Beerbaum, Monika
A1  - Zhang, Jin-Li
A1  - Oschkinat, Hartmut
A1  - Sebald, Walter
T1  - The Clip-Segment of the von Willebrand Domain 1 of the BMP Modulator Protein Crossveinless 2 Is Preformed
JF  - Molecules
N2  - Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) are secreted protein hormones that act as morphogens and exert essential roles during embryonic development of tissues and organs. Signaling by BMPs occurs via hetero-oligomerization of two types of serine/threonine kinase transmembrane receptors. Due to the small number of available receptors for a large number of BMP ligands ligand-receptor promiscuity presents an evident problem requiring additional regulatory mechanisms for ligand-specific signaling. Such additional regulation is achieved through a plethora of extracellular antagonists, among them members of the Chordin superfamily, that modulate BMP signaling activity by binding. The key-element in Chordin-related antagonists for interacting with BMPs is the von Willebrand type C (VWC) module, which is a small domain of about 50 to 60 residues occurring in many different proteins. Although a structure of the VWC domain of the Chordin-member Crossveinless 2 (CV2) bound to BMP-2 has been determined by X-ray crystallography, the molecular mechanism by which the VWC domain binds BMPs has remained unclear. Here we present the NMR structure of the Danio rerio CV2 VWC1 domain in its unbound state showing that the key features for high affinity binding to BMP-2 is a pre-oriented peptide loop.
KW  - bone morphogenetic proteins
KW  - TGF-β superfamily
KW  - BMP antagonist
KW  - protein-protein recognition
KW  - NMR spectroscopy
KW  - von Willebrand type C domain
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-97196
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Thorn, Simon
A1  - Chao, Anne
A1  - Georgiev, Konstadin B.
A1  - Müller, Jörg
A1  - Bässler, Claus
A1  - Campbell, John L.
A1  - Jorge, Castro
A1  - Chen, Yan-Han
A1  - Choi, Chang-Yong
A1  - Cobb, Tyler P.
A1  - Donato, Daniel C.
A1  - Durska, Ewa
A1  - Macdonald, Ellen
A1  - Feldhaar, Heike
A1  - Fontaine, Jospeh B.
A1  - Fornwalt, Paula J.
A1  - Hernández Hernández, Raquel María
A1  - Hutto, Richard L.
A1  - Koivula, Matti
A1  - Lee, Eun-Jae
A1  - Lindenmayer, David
A1  - Mikusinski, Grzegorz
A1  - Obrist, Martin K.
A1  - Perlík, Michal
A1  - Rost, Josep
A1  - Waldron, Kaysandra
A1  - Wermelinger, Beat
A1  - Weiß, Ingmar
A1  - Zmihorski, Michal
A1  - Leverkus, Alexandro B.
T1  - Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - Forests are increasingly affected by natural disturbances. Subsequent salvage logging, a widespread management practice conducted predominantly to recover economic capital, produces further disturbance and impacts biodiversity worldwide. Hence, naturally disturbed forests are among the most threatened habitats in the world, with consequences for their associated biodiversity. However, there are no evidence-based benchmarks for the proportion of area of naturally disturbed forests to be excluded from salvage logging to conserve biodiversity. We apply a mixed rarefaction/extrapolation approach to a global multi-taxa dataset from disturbed forests, including birds, plants, insects and fungi, to close this gap. We find that 757% (mean +/- SD) of a naturally disturbed area of a forest needs to be left unlogged to maintain 90% richness of its unique species, whereas retaining 50% of a naturally disturbed forest unlogged maintains 73 +/- 12% of its unique species richness. These values do not change with the time elapsed since disturbance but vary considerably among taxonomic groups. Salvage logging has become a common practice to gain economic returns from naturally disturbed forests, but it could have considerable negative effects on biodiversity. Here the authors use a recently developed statistical method to estimate that ca. 75% of the naturally disturbed forest should be left unlogged to maintain 90% of the species unique to the area.
KW  - natural disturbance
KW  - bird communities
KW  - forest
KW  - management
KW  - beetle
KW  - conservation
KW  - windthrow
KW  - diversity
KW  - impact
KW  - fire
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-230512
VL  - 11
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yan, Zhe
T1  - “I tried to control my emotions”: nursing home care workers’ experiences of emotional labor in China
JF  - Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology
N2  - Despite dramatic expansions in the Chinese nursing home sector in meeting the increasing care needs of a rapidly aging population, direct care work in China remains largely devalued and socially unrecognized. Consequently, scant attention has been given to the caregiving experiences of direct care workers (DCWs) in Chinese nursing homes. In particular, given the relational nature of care work, there is little knowledge as to how Chinese DCWs manage emotions and inner feelings through their emotional labor. This article examines the emotional labor of Chinese DCWs through ethnographic data collected with 20 DCWs in one nursing home located in an urban setting in central China. Data were analyzed using conventional content analysis and constant comparison. Participants’ accounts of sustaining a caring self, preserving professional identity, and hoping for reciprocity revealed implicit meanings about the often-conflicting nature of emotional labor and the nonreciprocal elements of care work under constrained working conditions. Importantly, the moral-cultural notion of bao (报 norm of reciprocity) was found to be central among DCWs in navigating strained resources and suggested their agency in meaning-construction. However, their constructed moral buffers may be insufficient if emotional labor continues to be made invisible by care organizations.
KW  - Gerontologie
KW  - Care-Arbeit
KW  - Emotionsregulation
KW  - China
KW  - Altenpflege
KW  - China
KW  - Long-term care
KW  - Direct care workers
KW  - Emotional labor
KW  - Filial piety/xiao
KW  - Professionalism
KW  - Reciprocity
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-324295
VL  - 37
IS  - 1
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Georgiev, Kostadin B.
A1  - Chao, Anne
A1  - Castro, Jorge
A1  - Chen, Yan‐Han
A1  - Choi, Chang‐Yong
A1  - Fontaine, Joseph B.
A1  - Hutto, Richard L.
A1  - Lee, Eun‐Jae
A1  - Müller, Jörg
A1  - Rost, Josep
A1  - Żmihorski, Michal
A1  - Thorn, Simon
T1  - Salvage logging changes the taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional successional trajectories of forest bird communities
JF  - Journal of Applied Ecology
N2  - Salvage logging following natural disturbances may alter the natural successional trajectories of biological communities by affecting the occurrences of species, functional groups and evolutionary lineages. However, few studies have examined whether dissimilarities between bird communities of salvaged and unsalvaged forests are more pronounced for rare species, functional groups and evolutionary lineages than for their more common counterparts.

We compiled data on breeding bird assemblages from nine study areas in North America, Europe and Asia, covering a 17‐year period following wildfire or windstorm disturbances and subsequent salvage logging. We tested whether dissimilarities based on non‐shared species, functional groups and evolutionary lineages (a) decreased or increased over time and (b) the responses of rare, common and dominant species varied, by using a unified statistical framework based on Hill numbers and null models.

We found that dissimilarities between bird communities caused by salvage logging persisted over time for rare, common and dominant species, evolutionary lineages and for rare functional groups. Dissimilarities of common and dominant functional groups increased 14 years post disturbance.

Salvage logging led to significantly larger dissimilarities than expected by chance. Functional dissimilarities between salvaged and unsalvaged sites were lower compared to taxonomic and phylogenetic dissimilarities. In general, dissimilarities were highest for rare, followed by common and dominant species.

Synthesis and applications. Our research demonstrates that salvage logging did not decrease dissimilarities of bird communities over time and taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic dissimilarities persisted for over a decade. We recommend resource managers and decision makers to reserve portions of disturbed forest to enable unmanaged post‐disturbance succession of bird communities, particularly to conserve rare species found in unsalvaged disturbed forests.
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - breeding season
KW  - forest management
KW  - harvesting
KW  - Hill numbers
KW  - natural disturbance
KW  - successional trajectory
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-214887
VL  - 57
IS  - 6
SP  - 1103
EP  - 1112
ER  -