The true response of Fagus sylvatica L. to disturbances: A basis for the empirical inference of release criteria for temperate forests

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00090972 RIV/62156489:43410/16:43910761

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112716302389" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112716302389</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.04.055" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.foreco.2016.04.055</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The true response of Fagus sylvatica L. to disturbances: A basis for the empirical inference of release criteria for temperate forests

Original language description

Because of some arbitrary decisions in recent dendrochronological research on forest disturbance. histories, describing the actual growth responses of trees to disturbance events is still an issue of great importance. This is even more important in temperate beech-dominated old-growth forests driven by fine-scale disturbances, where a majority of growth pulses occur close to the arbitrary threshold of release detection. Recognizing this limitation, we provide a new empirically-based release detection criterion on the basis of actual reactions of trees to independently dated disturbance events interconnecting three data sets-tree censuses, dendrochronology and historical aerial photographs. The growth response of Fagus sylvatica L. was studied in detail in relation to the canopy position of surviving trees as well as regional climate responses, using 280 increment cores extracted in 8 old-growth forests in the Czech Republic. Our results imply relatively high uncertainty in the detection of disturbance using dendrochronology, which can be troubled particularly in spatial analysis of past disturbances. We believe that our empirically-derived criteria represent a substantial contribution to further dendroecology research, with broad applicability to a wide range of beech-dominated temperate forests.

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

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Forest Ecology and Management

ISSN

0378-1127

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

374

Issue of the periodical within the volume

15 August 2016

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

174-185

UT code for WoS article

000378363700019

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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