Salvage logging effects on regulating ecosystem services and fuel loads Leverkus, Alexandro B. Gustafsson, Lena Lindenmayer, David B. Castro Gutiérrez, Jorge Rey Benayas, José María Ranius, Thomas Thorn, Simon We thank several authors who generously provided data for this meta-analysis (WebPanel 2). ABL acknowledges the support of mobility grants from Universidad de Alcalá and Spanish Ministry of Education, postdoctoral fellowships from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and Project AS2013/MAE-2719 “REMEDINAL-3” from the Government of Madrid. The data underlying this paper are available through an institutional repository (http://hdl.handle.net/10481/62260). Salvage logging, or logging after natural disturbances such as wildfires, insect outbreaks, and windstorms, is carried out to recover some of a forest’s natural and/or economic capital. However, trade-offs between management objectives and a lack of consensus on the ecological consequences of salvage logging impair science-based decision making on the management of forests after natural disturbances. We conducted a global meta-analysis of the impacts of salvage logging on regulating ecosystem services and on fuel loads, as a frequent post-disturbance objective is preventing subsequent wildfires that could be fueled by the accumulation of dead trunks and branches. Salvage logging affected ecosystem services in a moderately negative way, regardless of disturbance type and severity, time elapsed since salvage logging, intensity of salvage logging, and the group of regulating ecosystem services being considered. However, prolonging the time between natural disturbance and salvage logging mitigated negative effects on regulating ecosystem services. Salvage logging had no overall effect on surface fuels; rather, different fuel types responded differently depending on the time elapsed since salvage logging. Delaying salvage logging by ~2–4 years may reduce negative ecological impacts without affecting surface fuel loads. 2020-10-16T06:44:26Z 2020-10-16T06:44:26Z 2020-06-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Leverkus, Alexandro B. et. al. Salvage logging effects on regulating ecosystem services and fuel loads. Front Ecol Environ 2020; 18(7):391–400, [doi:10.1002/fee.2219] Data: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/62260 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/63778 10.1002/fee.2219 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Wiley; Ecological Society of America