Dwindling coppice woods in Central Europe - Disappearing natural and cultural heritage

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119687" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119687</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119687" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119687</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dwindling coppice woods in Central Europe - Disappearing natural and cultural heritage

Original language description

Coppicing has gradually declined in recent decades in many European countries after centuries of upswing. Although the abandonment of this traditional forest management method was forced by changes in social and economic conditions and is rational, it results in losses of many natural and cultural-historical values. Due to the speed of the decline, it is an appropriate time to appraise ancient coppice woodlands as a part of European cultural heritage, map their remnants, and try to save at least some of the most preserved and valuable ones. Only 7.5% of the coppice woodland area in the Czech Republic remains when compared to the extent in the middle of the nineteenth century and currently, according to available data. Although research in the field shows that the current numbers are underestimated (56% of the real extent of coppice woods in the study area remain unnoticed in official reports, mostly because stored coppices are already marked as high forests), the majority of coppice woodland remnants face overmaturity, subsequent felling and replacement by high forests. Considering that the locations of the remnants are unknown, it is useful to develop tools to make the search more effective. Predictive indices of the likelihood of coppice woodland occurrence, which were tested in the South Moravian Region, represent an example of such a tool. Additionally, the results of this study show even more effective and accessible predictors. Due to the long-term development of ancient coppice woodlands, resulting in man-made natural ecosystems with high ecological values, it is possible to target many valuable remnants with the help of habitat mapping data. Specifically, the spatial distribution of Acidophilous thermophilous oak forest habitat, Hercynian oak-hornbeam forest habitat and Dry acidophilous oak forest habitat proved to be the most useful in the study area. As the example in the Czech Republic shows, some of the oldest and most valuable ancient coppice woods may still occur in areas where they are no longer listed in forest evidence as a coppice because of current neglect. The issue is that the time required to understand this phenomenon is limited.

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

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Forest Ecology and Management

ISSN

0378-1127

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

501

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1 December

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

119687

UT code for WoS article

000701903300004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85114771377