Gap regeneration and dynamics: the case study of mixed forests at Křtiny in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43410/21:43920022

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/forj-2021-0012" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2478/forj-2021-0012</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/forj-2021-0012" target="_blank" >10.2478/forj-2021-0012</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gap regeneration and dynamics: the case study of mixed forests at Křtiny in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Gap regeneration remains the best silviculture technique for sustainable forest regeneration in mixed forests. The study examined tree species composition, diversity and dynamics of natural regeneration in gaps under three contrasting forest stands at Křtiny in the Czech Republic. In spring 2013, experimental gap design begins, when semi-permanent 1 m2 circular sub-sampling plots along North-South-East-West transects were delineated under 6 selected natural canopy openings LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO 20 m2. In winter 2013/14, these naturally originated openings were artificially enlarged to the current gap sizes ranging between 255 and 1149 m2 through group felling. Natural regeneration in gaps was measured four times: from the growing season before disturbance (BD) in 2013 to the next three consecutive growing seasons after disturbance in 2014-2016, respectively. Seven (7) new species with light demanding growth strategy that were previously not present at mother stands were occurring there during the first growing season after disturbance (FGS), yielding the highest taxa (14 species) and diversity (Shannon diversity index, H = 1.7) while BD attained the lowest (8 species; H = 0.9), respectively. Study site being part of Fagus sylvatica vegetation community and providing favorable natural conditions for the optimal growth of Picea abies significantly explains the regeneration dominance of these species in gap regeneration from BD until the third growing season after disturbance (TGS), respectively. Small scale gap-disturbance contributed to the higher regeneration densities of all studied species during FGS. However, drought, competition from other life forms, and browsing activities substantially caused a progressive decline in natural regeneration during three consecutive years after disturbance.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS 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

Central European Forestry Journal

ISSN

2454-034X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

67

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

135-147

UT code for WoS article

000667301500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85109064461