The impact of agricultural land afforestation on air temperatures near the surface
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027049%3A_____%2F22%3AN0000050" target="_blank" >RIV/00027049:_____/22:N0000050 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.agriculturejournals.cz/web/jfs.htm?type=article&id=135_2022-JFS" target="_blank" >https://www.agriculturejournals.cz/web/jfs.htm?type=article&id=135_2022-JFS</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/135/2022-JFS" target="_blank" >10.17221/135/2022-JFS</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The impact of agricultural land afforestation on air temperatures near the surface
Original language description
Many studies showed that afforestation increases carbon storage and it can have effects on physical, chemical and biological properties of soil. Afforestation can affect local and regional climate and these effects differ between tropical, temperate and boreal areas. Forests are also efficient in protecting soils against erosion and their flood mitigation functions or other benefits are described in different publications. In this study, the pattern of air temperatures (20 cm, 40 cm and 60 cm above the surface) was studied 10 years after the afforestation of agricultural land (warm, mild dry region of the Czech Republic) with a mixture of broadleaved tree species (Quercus robur L., Quercus rubra L. and Acer platanoides L.) or monospecific Pinus sylvestris L. stand. The aim of our study was to find out the pattern of air temperatures (20 cm, 40 cm and 60 cm above the surface) on two plots (one of the plots ‒ old beech trees, the other plot ‒ clearing) in a beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forest in a mildly warm, mildly wet region of the Czech Republic. The afforestation of agriculturally used land led to air temperature cooling and to a reduction of the amplitude of maximum and minimum temperatures. The average air temperature (from April 2021 to the beginning of November 2021) decreased by 0.7–1.1 °C on the afforested plots compared with the agriculturally used plot. In the beech forest, the average temperature decreased on the plot with clearing compared with the old beech trees (from the middle of September 2021 to the middle of November 2021). Our results confirm the benefits of afforestation to climate change mitigation; buffering of extreme temperatures is important for the human thermal comfort.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40104 - Soil science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/QK1910232" target="_blank" >QK1910232: The optimization of subsidy title for agricultural land afforestation</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Forest Science
ISSN
1212-4834
e-ISSN
1805-935X
Volume of the periodical
68
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
485-495
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85147528669