Resprouting trees drive understory vegetation dynamics following logging in a temperate forest
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F20%3A43918038" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/20:43918038 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/20:84885
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65367-5" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65367-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65367-5" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-020-65367-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Resprouting trees drive understory vegetation dynamics following logging in a temperate forest
Original language description
Removal of canopy trees by logging causes shifts in herbaceous diversity and increases invasibility of the forest understory. However, disturbed (cut) trees of many species do not die but resprout from remaining parts. Because sprouts develop vigorously immediately after disturbances, we hypothesized that sprouts of logged trees offset the changes in species richness and invasibility of the herbaceous layer by eliminating the rise in the resource availability during the time before regeneration from seeds develops. To test this, we analyzed data on herbaceous vegetation and sprout biomass collected in a broadleaved temperate forest in the Czech Republic before and for 6 years after logging. Sprouts that were produced by most of the stumps of logged trees offset large rises in species richness and cover of herbaceous plants and the resource availability that followed logging, but they affected the alien plants more significantly than the native plants. The sprouting canopy effectually eliminated most of the alien species that colonized the forest following a logging event. These findings indicate that in forests dominated by tree species with resprouting ability, sprouts drive the early post-disturbance dynamics of the herbaceous layer. By offsetting the post-disturbance vegetation shifts, resprouting supports forest resilience.
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/LTT17033" target="_blank" >LTT17033: Involvement of Czech scientists in the FunDivEUROPE pan-European research platform</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scientific Reports
ISSN
2045-2322
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8 June
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
9231
UT code for WoS article
000560461000009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85086146635