Structural and Tree Species Diversification as a Challenging Task in Forests of the Air-polluted Jizera Mountains, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/20:85282

Result on the web

<a href="https://bioone.org/journals/mountain-research-and-development/volume-40/issue-2/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00059.1/Structural-and-Tree-Species-Diversification-as-a-Challenging-Task-in/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00059.1.full" target="_blank" >https://bioone.org/journals/mountain-research-and-development/volume-40/issue-2/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00059.1/Structural-and-Tree-Species-Diversification-as-a-Challenging-Task-in/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00059.1.full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00059.1" target="_blank" >10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00059.1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Structural and Tree Species Diversification as a Challenging Task in Forests of the Air-polluted Jizera Mountains, Czech Republic

Original language description

The Jizera Mountains (Jizerske hory) are a part of the Black Triangle, which, in the past, was one of Europe s most polluted regions. Situated on the Czech-Polish border, these mountains were heavily affected by extreme SO2 and NOx loads emitted from coal power plants in the piedmont. During the 1970s and 1980s, the upper plateau of the Jizera Mountains experienced substantial forest decline due to air pollution. Dying stands were felled on more than 12,000 ha. Modernization of the energy industry after 1989 has led to a significant reduction in air pollution in the Black Triangle. Therefore, replanting the clear-cut areas in the Jizera Mountains became possible during the 1990s, and a new generation of forests has covered the upper plateau of the mountains. However, these even-aged, mainly spruce stands urgently need to be diversified in terms of age, structure, and species composition. This is not an easy task due to extreme microclimate, acidified soils, and damage to plants by rodents and deer. In 2007, a project aimed at the diversification of local ecosystems was initiated. The project is based on a system of diversification centers and corridors containing a species admixture (broadleaf trees and silver fir), which is protected from game, to form a web that enriches the age and spatial structure of forests on the upper plateau and complements their species composition. Initially, these centers and corridors were placed in more sheltered and accessible places and planted with the standard planting stock in combination with large-sized transplants (less than 100 cm). Through silvicultural measures, the web became successively denser and expanded to sites with less environmental protection. Supportive measures like initial fertilization of plantations and the biochemical amelioration of depleted soils have also been implemented.

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

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Mountain Research and Development

ISSN

0276-4741

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

40

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

8-16

UT code for WoS article

000620442000009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85100923705