DISTURBANCE REGIME, SYNCHRONICITY AND SPECIES RICHNESS IN PRIMARY BEECH-DOMINATED (FAGUS SYLVATICA L.) FORESTS IN CENTRAL EUROPE

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F24%3A101701" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/24:101701 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.vulhm.cz/zlv_online_detail/druhove-zlozenie-a-synchronizovanost-disturbancii-v-primarnych-lesoch-s-dominanciou-buka-lesneho-fagus-sylvatica-l-v-strednej-europe/" target="_blank" >https://www.vulhm.cz/zlv_online_detail/druhove-zlozenie-a-synchronizovanost-disturbancii-v-primarnych-lesoch-s-dominanciou-buka-lesneho-fagus-sylvatica-l-v-strednej-europe/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.59269/ZLV/2024/2/727" target="_blank" >10.59269/ZLV/2024/2/727</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

DISTURBANCE REGIME, SYNCHRONICITY AND SPECIES RICHNESS IN PRIMARY BEECH-DOMINATED (FAGUS SYLVATICA L.) FORESTS IN CENTRAL EUROPE

Original language description

Natural disturbances such as windthrows and bark beetle outbreaks are essential in the formation of natural forest ecosystem structures in Central Europe. Therefore, evaluating disturbances' spatial and temporal extent and synchronicity is critical for understanding of forest dynamics. This study aimed to evaluate the long-term natural disturbance history of primary mixed-beech forests and investigate the species composition-temporal synchronisation relationship. We collected a unique dataset of > 6,000 tree cores across 14 forest stands on 174 study plots, and using dendroecological methods we reconstructed 200-year-long plot-level disturbance histories and evaluated synchronicity within the stands. Subsequently, we used GLMs to evaluate the tree species diversity-synchronicity relationship. The results showed substantial temporal variability of natural disturbances and a prevalence of low and moderate severity disturbances. Disturbance synchronisation was higher in the Western than in the Eastern Carpathian forests, which have a lower proportion of admixture tree species. Moreover, the GLMs showed a strong positive dependence of synchronicity on tree species richness. The results contradict the general assumption that mixed-species forests have higher resilience to disturbances than monospecific forests. The reason behind these findings can be attributed to the substantial admixture of Norway spruce, and its vulnerability to disturbances such as windthrow and bark beetle outbreaks

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

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Zprávy lesnického výzkumu

ISSN

0322-9688

e-ISSN

0322-9688

Volume of the periodical

69

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

123-135

UT code for WoS article

001267549300005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85200269528