Contrasting Norway spruce disturbance dynamics in managed forests and strict forest reserves in Slovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F23%3A43906460" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/23:43906460 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/23:97131

Result on the web

<a href="https://academic.oup.com/forestry/article/96/3/387/6809236?login=true" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/forestry/article/96/3/387/6809236?login=true</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpac045" target="_blank" >10.1093/forestry/cpac045</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Contrasting Norway spruce disturbance dynamics in managed forests and strict forest reserves in Slovakia

Original language description

Forest disturbances are intensifying globally, yet regional drivers of these dynamics remain poorly understood. We investigated recent disturbance intensities in Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) forests in Slovakia (Central Europe) with different management objectives in 2000-2017 based on Landsat imagery. We focused on 122 strict reserves without any management, their actively managed surroundings (500 m and 2000 m buffers), and managed production forests beyond the buffer areas. We used generalized additive mixed models to test for differences in temporal trends of disturbance intensity among these management categories. We found that disturbance intensity was increasing in all management categories during the studied period. The increase was more pronounced in the managed forests (compound annual disturbance rate 1.76% year(-1)) and the 2000 m buffer (2.21% year(-1)) than in the strict reserves (0.58% year(-1)). The predicted cumulative disturbance during the 18-year period was 9.9% in the reserves and 30.5% in the 2000 m buffer. We found that forests in nature reserves can be more resistant to disturbances than forests managed for timber production, despite management efforts to control disturbances in managed forests. Our findings can help reconcile the different perceptions of natural disturbances and their management in Central Europe and support climate-adapted management strategies that consider natural disturbances as an indispensable component of ecosystem dynamics.

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

40102 - Forestry

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000803" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000803: Advanced research supporting the forestry and wood-processing sector´s adaptation to global change and the 4th industrial revolution</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Forestry

ISSN

0015-752X

e-ISSN

1464-3626

Volume of the periodical

96

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

387-398

UT code for WoS article

000882554200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85165235061