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Driving factors of the growth response of Fagus sylvatica L. to disturbances: A comprehensive study from Central-European old-growth forests

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F19%3A43915649" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/19:43915649 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00027073:_____/19:N0000021 RIV/00216224:14310/19:00112806

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.04.018" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.04.018</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.04.018" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.foreco.2019.04.018</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Driving factors of the growth response of Fagus sylvatica L. to disturbances: A comprehensive study from Central-European old-growth forests

  • Original language description

    Despite improvements of dendrochronological techniques in many forest ecosystems, studies describing the growth responses of trees following disturbance events including comprehensive data on factors and processes behind tree-growth release are rare, especially for European temperate forests, limiting the interpretation and generalization of dendroecological studies. Here we examine the effect of key factors on the growth reaction of Fagus sylvatica L. to disturbances in 8 old-growth forests in the Czech Republic, independently dated using three different data sources - tree censuses, dendrochronology and historical aerial photographs. Using 117 increment cores, we studied four parameters of radial tree-growth surrounding canopy gaps: magnitude, duration, abruptness and response shift, in relation to factors of different spatial scales, i.e. tree-, gap- and stand-level variables. Our results indicate that the beech growth response to gap formation strongly differs across a complex of factors at diverse spatial levels, frequently occurring in noteworthy interactions. A positive trend for the gap size * radiation interaction in the analysis of magnitude was found, suggesting that the effect of gap area differs among topographical features. As for duration and abruptness, the interaction of distance and mortality mode was identified, indicating a longer and more gradual reaction along with increasing distance of the cored tree from the gap centre, varying by the type of the gap maker&apos;s death. In addition, an altitudinal gradient was found to predict the magnitude of growth changes and the time interval between the disturbance and the reaction of nearby trees. Surprisingly, the diameter of the surviving trees was not a good predictor of radial growth, with a significant positive relationship to just abruptness. An effect of locality was not observed, facilitating the broad applicability of our findings across a wide range of beech-dominated temperate forests. Our results emphasize the general limits of dendrochronological data in disturbance spatial pattern studies, as indicated by the considerable variability in the responses of neighbouring trees to identical disturbance event. A detailed examination of the growth reaction, considering not only the response magnitude but also other important parameters, plays a key role in the precision of detecting growth releases as well as in reducing the sample size required for summary disturbance history evaluations. In focusing on this issue we believe we contribute to future dendroecological research by demonstrating the need for more precise disturbance history evaluations.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    40102 - Forestry

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA16-15319S" target="_blank" >GA16-15319S: Ecosystem engineering and soil complexity in old-growth temperate forests</a><br>

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2019

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Forest Ecology and Management

  • ISSN

    0378-1127

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    444

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    15 July

  • Country of publishing house

    NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

  • Number of pages

    11

  • Pages from-to

    96-106

  • UT code for WoS article

    000470946000011

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85064603009