Salvage-Logging after Windstorm Leads to Structural and Functional Homogenization of Understory Layer and Delayed Spruce Tree Recovery in Tatra Mts., Slovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F17%3A75646" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/17:75646 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f8030088" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f8030088</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f8030088" target="_blank" >10.3390/f8030088</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Salvage-Logging after Windstorm Leads to Structural and Functional Homogenization of Understory Layer and Delayed Spruce Tree Recovery in Tatra Mts., Slovakia

Original language description

Stand-replacing disturbance and post-disturbance salvage-logging influence forest succession in different ways, however, limited knowledge regarding how salvage-logging affects vegetation patterns compared to natural development of forest ecosystems is still lacking. In this study, we described the diversity pattern of understory vegetation and tree regeneration in mountain spruce forest of Tatra Mountains, northern Slovakia, where a high severity windstorm affecting over 10,000 ha occurred in 2004. The area was consequently subjected to salvage-logging. We asked how the species composition, vegetation diversity, and its spatial heterogeneity were modified by severe salvage-logging. Vascular plants, deadwood coverage, and tree species densities were monitored on non-intervention (NI, n = 108) and salvage-logged (SL, n = 95) experimental plots (spatially nested design, sample plot area 3,14 m(2)) six and seven years after disturbance, respectively. The NI sites were structurally more diverse with post

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

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

FORESTS

ISSN

1999-4907

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

000398711600037

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85015695461