The Effect of Tree-Uprooting on the Soil Spatial Complexity in an Old-Growth Temperate Forest, Central Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027073%3A_____%2F22%3AN0000031" target="_blank" >RIV/00027073:_____/22:N0000031 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/5/769" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/5/769</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f13050769" target="_blank" >10.3390/f13050769</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Effect of Tree-Uprooting on the Soil Spatial Complexity in an Old-Growth Temperate Forest, Central Europe
Original language description
The formation of spatial pedocomplexity in forested landscapes is an issue that has not yet been comprehensively resolved. This study analysed the effects of tree disturbances on the spatial variability of soil chemical properties in order to explain the spatial pedocomplexity in one of the oldest forest reserves in Europe. A total of 1545 sites over an area of 74 ha were assessed in terms of soil taxonomy, morphology, and profiles. We quantified the spatial autocorrelation of soil chemical properties and analysed the effects of soil disturbance regimes on soil chemical properties in both the surface and subsurface layers using geostatistics and redundancy analysis, respectively. A paired difference test revealed that the factors involved in the soil formation of the two layers are different. The neoformation of the surface layer proceeds rapidly after soil disturbance and, therefore, some formerly disturbed surface layers become mature above immature subsurface layers. The effect of tree disturbances on soil chemical properties was significant for totally decomposed treethrows. Treethrow density partially explained the variation in soil chemical properties in both layers, but even more so in the subsurface layer. This study further elucidates the impact of treethrows on soils and shows that they are an important driver of soil spatial pedocomplexity.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40102 - Forestry
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-09427S" target="_blank" >GA19-09427S: The mystery of biogenic soil creep: the biogeomorphic role of trees in temperate and tropical forests and its ecological consequences</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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
Forests
ISSN
1999-4907
e-ISSN
1999-4907
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
769
UT code for WoS article
000803263000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85130712597