Dead wood dependent organisms in one of the oldest protected forests of Europe: Investigating the contrasting effects of within-stand variation in a highly diversified environment

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F16%3A00464642" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/16:00464642 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/16:72813 RIV/00027073:_____/16:N0000007 RIV/49777513:23420/16:43927406

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112715007744" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112715007744</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.12.041" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.foreco.2015.12.041</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dead wood dependent organisms in one of the oldest protected forests of Europe: Investigating the contrasting effects of within-stand variation in a highly diversified environment

Original language description

Old-growth forests are dynamic systems characterized by high levels of fine-scale structural variability. This variability is thought to support biodiversity by providing a range of environmental conditions within stands, such as canopy openness and dead wood abundance and quality. However, the response of many taxa, including those dependent on dead wood, to fine-scale habitat variability within old-growth stands remains under-studied in many temperate forests. We used saproxylic fungi and beetles as model groups to test the influence of within-stand variation in canopy openness and dead wood quantity and quality in an old-growth beech-dominated woodland left unmanaged in the Czech Republic since at least 1838 (Zofinsky prales and Hojna Voda). Responses to habitat variability differed both between and within taxa. Species composition was most influenced by canopy openness, with the beetle community responding positively to openness but the fungal community responding negatively. Species richness of beetles was also most influenced by canopy openness, while the number of red-listed beetle species was more associated with dead wood quantity. Fungi were significantly associated with high amounts of dead wood, with a critical threshold exceeding 300m3 per hectare. Overall, fungal responses were more complex than for beetles, with the former more associated with undisturbed (closed-canopy) patches, and the latter with disturbed/gapped patches. These results demonstrate the role of fine-scale habitat variability within old-growth forests and provide a potential model for managed forests. Perpetuating a full range of structural variability, including disturbance-generated gaps and dead-wood pockets, will help sustain a broader range of late-successional biodiversity.

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

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/QJ1520197" target="_blank" >QJ1520197: ENvironmental REsistance of stable FOrest stands fulfilling the non-wood-producing roles</a><br>

Continuities

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

363

Issue of the periodical within the volume

MAR 1

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

229-236

UT code for WoS article

000370104200023

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84952894494