Leaf area index and soil water content responses to pre-commercial thinning in Norway spruce plantations under climate change
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F25%3A106300" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/25:106300 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/62156489:43410/25:43927950 RIV/00020702:_____/25:N0000022
Result on the web
<a href="https://jfs.agriculturejournals.cz/artkey/jfs-202512-0004_leaf-area-index-and-soil-water-content-responses-to-pre-commercial-thinning-in-norway-spruce-plantations-under.php" target="_blank" >https://jfs.agriculturejournals.cz/artkey/jfs-202512-0004_leaf-area-index-and-soil-water-content-responses-to-pre-commercial-thinning-in-norway-spruce-plantations-under.php</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/79/2025-JFS" target="_blank" >10.17221/79/2025-JFS</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Leaf area index and soil water content responses to pre-commercial thinning in Norway spruce plantations under climate change
Original language description
Global climate change (GCC) and increasing drought frequency pose a threat to the stability of European forests, particularly those of Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) Karst.] plantations. We investigated how different pre-commercial thinning (PCT) intensities affect leaf area index (LAI) and its relationship to soil water content (SWC) in young spruce stands in northeastern Czechia. Three permanent research plots in a 13-year-old monoculture were subjected to mild PCT, heavy PCT, or left as an unthinned control in winter 2019/2020. Thinning caused an immediate decrease in LAI, with averages of 8.3 +/- 1.1 m2 center dot m-2 (mild), 3.8 +/- 0.5 m2 center dot m-2 (heavy) and 11.1 +/- 1.1 m2 center dot m-2 (control) in 2020. By 2023, LAI in the mildly thinned stand had largely converged with the control, whereas the heavily thinned stand maintained significantly lower LAI. The strongest relationship between LAI and SWC occurred in the heavily thinned plot (R2 = 0.715 in 2021), while correlations were weak or transient in the mildly thinned and control plots. These results indicate that PCT intensity influences both the magnitude and duration of LAI reduction and is associated with differences in stand water dynamics. Appropriately adjusted thinning may therefore modestly affect water availability and could contribute to adaptive management of spruce forests under GCC.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/QL25020059" target="_blank" >QL25020059: Ongoing bark beetle outbreak in Czechia as an opportunity for creating forests and forestry sector adapted to climate change and resilient to future shocks</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Forest Science
ISSN
1212-4834
e-ISSN
1212-4834
Volume of the periodical
71
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
599-613
UT code for WoS article
001648757700003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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