Fine-scale patch mosaic of developmental stages in Northeast American secondary temperate forests: the European perspective

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10342-016-0988-1" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10342-016-0988-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10342-016-0988-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10342-016-0988-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Fine-scale patch mosaic of developmental stages in Northeast American secondary temperate forests: the European perspective

Original language description

Conceptual models that describe temperate forest dynamics differ substantially between Europe and America. In Europe, the concept of the forest cycle describes a sequentially shifting fine-scale mosaic of patches in different phases of forest development. In North America, the descriptive concept is largely based on severe coarse-scale disturbances that repeat in a cyclic fashion and restart the succession of the whole forest stand from initiation through to ‘old-growth,’ neglecting the within-stand dynamics on the patch level. Here, we investigate fine-scale stand structures across European and North American forests by applying the European concept of forest developmental phases to all stands. The patches of four major forest developmental stages were recognized and delineated by the spatially explicit rule-based classification system implemented in GIS, which employs stem position maps of live and dead trees for analysis. The basic quantitative characteristics of identified patch structures in the N. American stands, as the Mean Patch Size of the mosaic (between 760 and 890 m2), were comparable with European old-growth stands, although mosaic complexity was higher in the latter. We demonstrated that in addition to the large-scale forest cycle assumed by N. American conceptual models there simultaneously exist finer-scale patch dynamics described by the European conceptual model. We also demonstrated that the occurrence of the Steady State stage was promoted by higher local tree species richness, which may explain the abundant occurrence of this stage in N. American secondary stands. The Steady State stage of the European model might represent an important commonality across both paradigms.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

GK - Forestry

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/LH12038" target="_blank" >LH12038: Mixed temperate forests dynamics ? integration and objectification of conceptual models</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Forest Research

ISSN

1612-4669

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

135

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

981-996

UT code for WoS article

000384571700015

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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