Spatial variability of forest floor and topsoil thicknesses and their relation to topography and forest stand characteristics in managed forests of Norway spruce and European beech

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10342-020-01316-1" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10342-020-01316-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10342-020-01316-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10342-020-01316-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spatial variability of forest floor and topsoil thicknesses and their relation to topography and forest stand characteristics in managed forests of Norway spruce and European beech

Original language description

Soils play a significant role in climate regulation, especially due to soil organic carbon (SOC). The SOC pool is therefore modeled for various environments, and forest floor and topsoil thicknesses are important parameters for most of these models as they store most of the SOC. However, the forest floor and topsoil thicknesses show high spatial variability which is a result of multiple factors which are not agreed upon among scientists. Out of these factors, we choose topography parameters (elevation, slope, and topography wetness index) and forest stand characteristics (stand age, dominant tree species, and forest floor cover), and soil moisture, and we analyzed their relationship to the forest floor and topsoil thicknesses. The study was performed in a managed submontaneous forest in Central Europe dominated by Picea abies (L.) Karsten with small patches of Fagus sylvatica L. or other species. The thicknesses of the O horizons (Oi, Oe, Oa) and topsoil were measured at 221 sampling pits. Geographically weighted regression showed that the spatial variability of the overall forest floor plus topsoil thickness (OA) is responsible for 8percent of its variability. The thickness of the OA is the most strongly controlled by forest floor cover explaining approximately 6percent of its variability and soil moisture explaining 2–6percent of the variability. The Oi + Oe horizon thickness is controlled only by forest floor cover explaining 10.7percent of its variability, and the thickness of Oa + A horizon can be explained mainly by soil moisture in mineral horizon explaining 9percent of the variability.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40104 - Soil science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Forest Research

ISSN

1612-4677

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

140

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

77-90

UT code for WoS article

000572702600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85091503593