Successional and structural responses to overstorey disturbance in managed and unmanaged forests

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F15%3A69323" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/15:69323 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpv009" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpv009</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpv009" target="_blank" >10.1093/forestry/cpv009</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Successional and structural responses to overstorey disturbance in managed and unmanaged forests
Original language description
We examined the effects of partial harvesting on the successional and structural development of forest stands relative to an unmanaged relict stand in Quercus-dominated forests in Indiana, USA over an 84-year period. Despite abundant ingrowth of shade-tolerant Acer and Ulmus species into the understorey of all stands, the double-harvest stand exhibited greater increases in richness, diversity and species mingling among strata relative to the relict stand. The release of mid-tolerant genera, Carya and Fraxinus, through overstorey disturbance, resulted in species composition more akin to earlier stages of stand development. Within the relict forest individuals from mid-tolerant species became more aggregated over time, but in the double-harvest stand they became less aggregated. Differences between stands were related to the degree of overstorey disturbance; from the relict, to the double-harvest stand, we observed consistent patterns among multiple measures. Retrogression of stand succe
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
GK - Forestry
OECD FORD branch
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Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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