Traditional forest management practices stop forest succession and bring back rare plant species

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F17%3A71044" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/17:71044 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12801" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12801</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12801" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2664.12801</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Traditional forest management practices stop forest succession and bring back rare plant species

Original language description

Strong evidence indicates that the diversity of various taxonomic groups declined in European lowland forests in the second half of the 20th century, following the abandonment of some traditional forest management practices. We carried out a five-year field trial in a lowland thermophilous oak forest to describe the effects of restoration of litter raking and grass cutting on the long-term developmental trajectory of species composition and the diversity of understorey vegetation. We used target species groups, i.e. species specific to thermophilous forests and dry grassland vegetation and plant functional traits to evaluate the restoration success using both compositional and functional outcomes. Dissimilarity in species composition between the managed plots and controls increased significantly during the five years of the trial. Litter raking increased the richness and cover of the thermophilous forest and dry grassland species, whereas grass cutting increased the richness and cover of only the

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

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-06632S" target="_blank" >GA15-06632S: Impact of climatic suitability and population history on expansion at species’ range boundaries</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Applied Ecology

ISSN

0021-8901

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

54

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

761-771

UT code for WoS article

000401239100010

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84991826577