Knowledge of Forest Management History as a Support Decision Tool for Management Plans of Forest Protected Areas

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Knowledge of Forest Management History as a Support Decision Tool for Management Plans of Forest Protected Areas

Original language description

The paper deals with forest management history of Norway spruce dominated forest ecosystem in Central Europe. Until the early 18th century, the remnants of climax Norway spruce forests below the alpine tree line in study area was affected only by a locally conducted selection logging. By the end of the 18th century, these forests were utilized in two different ways based on available wood transport: (i) forests that allowed transport of harvested wood to the valleys by river drives were intensively harvested by clearcutting with no subsequent artificial restoration, leaving the stands to be spontaneously renewed by natural regeneration, whereas (ii) forests that did not allow river drives maintained their primeval character. In the subsequent years, the clear cuts often reached the alpine tree line, and, in combination with grazing and hay making, caused a downward shift of the tree line by up to 100 meters of altitude. Abandoning the no longer suitable clear-cut harvests below the alpine tree line in the mid 19th century has the historical influence of forest harvests as one of the factors causing the alpine tree line altitudinal downward shift. Recently, a gradual upward shift of the alpine tree line ecotone is being observed in the study area under climate change. The results of this study suggest that research on forest management history can be consider as a decision-support tool for conservation management strategies for mountain forest habitats in protected areas.

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

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Baltic Forestry

ISSN

1392-1355

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

LT - LITHUANIA

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

99-108

UT code for WoS article

000443205200012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85052923487