Restoration of Central-European mountain Norway spruce forest 15 years after natural and anthropogenic disturbance

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/15:68640

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.02.010" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.02.010</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.02.010" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.foreco.2015.02.010</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Restoration of Central-European mountain Norway spruce forest 15 years after natural and anthropogenic disturbance

Original language description

Storm events resulting in windthrows, bark beetle (Ips typographus) outbreaks and subsequent forestry operations are the main disturbance agents in European mountain Norway spruce (Picea abies) forests. In the 1990s, a bark beetle outbreak resulted in a large-scale dieback of semi-natural mountain spruce forests in the Šumava National Park, Czech Republic. Two applied management measures enabled long-term monitoring of the effect of natural and anthropogenic disturbance on forest recovery: core zones were left without intervention, and surrounding zones were clear-cut, trees removed, and cleared areas replanted. Research plots were established in three disturbance types: climatically conditioned spruce forest with dead canopy, without intervention (1), with intervention (2), and waterlogged spruce forest partly resistant to bark beetle disturbance without intervention (3). The amount and vertical structure of tree regeneration and vegetation changes have been studied since the beginning of the disturbance in 1997. The main question of the study was whether tree regeneration and herb-layer vegetation differed between naturally developing disturbed forests and clearcuts 15 years after the disturbance. The species composition of regeneration in all disturbance types consisted mainly of spruce, with accompanying rowan. The total numbers after 15 years since the beginning of the disturbance did not differ significantly among the studied disturbance types, and were sufficient to replace the previous canopy. However, in clearcuts, these numbers were achieved by artificial reforestation, which was applied after initial destruction of natural regeneration due to salvage operations, whereas advance natural regeneration grew successfully under the protection of unmanaged dead canopy. There was a more unified height structure of spruce regeneration in the clearcuts, with significantly higher numbers of saplings taller than 2 m compared to unmanaged forests.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

GK - Forestry

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/ED1.1.00%2F02.0073" target="_blank" >ED1.1.00/02.0073: CzechGlobe - Center for Global Climate Change Impacts Studies</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

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

144

Issue of the periodical within the volume

15 May

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

120-130

UT code for WoS article

000351974300012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84924087777