Woody species-specific disturbance regimes and strategies in mixed mountain temperate forests in the Šumava Mts., Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00027073:_____/20:N0000045 RIV/00216224:14310/20:00115259

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-019-01252-9" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-019-01252-9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10342-019-01252-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10342-019-01252-9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Woody species-specific disturbance regimes and strategies in mixed mountain temperate forests in the Šumava Mts., Czech Republic

Original language description

The disturbance regime of mountain spruce-beech temperate forests has not yet been sufficiently elucidated. We hypothesized that spruce and beech express completely different disturbance histories and behavioural strategies, potentially causing exceptionally complex disturbance regimes. We further hypothesized that the spontaneous development of mountain forests can temporarily result in a simplification of the forest&apos;s spatial structure. We wanted to discover how the disturbance history and growth plasticity of the main tree species differ, and whether some old managed forests arose from primeval forest remnants. We compared dendrochronological records of the unmanaged Boubin Primeval Forest and 30 sites with current forestry records. Using this comparison, we categorized all sites into three categories. In the disturbance history of all evaluated forest sites, there was clear evidence of the presence of severe disturbances in the nineteenth century. However, the regeneration of beech was more continuous and less dependent on the presence of severe disturbances than the regeneration of spruce, which depended on the presence of severe disturbances of low frequency. Human-induced changes at some sites were manifested in changes in the initial growth of both species and disrupted their mutual competition and also led to a higher growth plasticity of beech. Despite human impacts in the region since the end of the nineteenth century, about 30% of analysed trees were older than the severe disturbances in the nineteenth century; therefore, some studies sites preserved the characteristics of primeval forest. Our results revealed three main forest development trajectories since the end of the nineteenth century.

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

<a href="/en/project/GA19-09427S" target="_blank" >GA19-09427S: The mystery of biogenic soil creep: the biogeomorphic role of trees in temperate and tropical forests and its ecological consequences</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Forest Research

ISSN

1612-4669

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

139

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

97-109

UT code for WoS article

000503712300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85077063908