Tree spatial patterns of Abies alba and Fagus sylvatica in the Western Carpathians over 30 years

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00027073:_____/14:#0001643

Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0299981" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0299981</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10342-014-0819-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10342-014-0819-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tree spatial patterns of Abies alba and Fagus sylvatica in the Western Carpathians over 30 years

Original language description

The decline of Abies alba (fir) in natural fir–beech forests in Europe has fascinated scientists for over a century. During this period, Fagus sylvatica (beech) became the dominant species in this forest type. We hypothesised that (1) the success of beech over fir is significantly connected with the fact that beech suffers less than fir from the presence of conspecific neighbours, that (2) shade tolerance is not a factor which favours beech over fir, and that (3) this is due to a significantly reduced proportion of litter treethrow mounds with suitable conditions for the successful regeneration of fir. We investigated these hypotheses by means of tree spatial pattern analysis. Eight rectangular plots (2–8 ha) were analysed in mountain fir–beech forests of the Outer Western Carpathians, Czech Republic. Various types of the pair correlation function and L function were used to describe the tree density variability of trees with DBH ≥10 cm. The analyses were carried out on datasets from the 1970s, 1990s and 2000s. Our results suggest that negative density dependence is not responsible for the current decline of fir. It seems that a higher shade tolerance of the advanced regeneration could be one of the factors which favour beech over fir. It is evident that fir trees have a markedly stronger positive association to mounds than beech trees.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

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

133

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1015-1028

UT code for WoS article

000343721100005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84930819171