Historical charcoal burning and coppicing suppressed beech and increased forest vegetation heterogeneity
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F21%3A00543593" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/21:00543593 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/21:89449 RIV/61989592:15310/21:73604661
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12923" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12923</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12923" target="_blank" >10.1111/jvs.12923</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Historical charcoal burning and coppicing suppressed beech and increased forest vegetation heterogeneity
Original language description
To explore the historical forest structure and long-term changes in tree composition, we sampled charcoal remains from 28 historical kilns, identified the burnt tree taxa and estimated the original diameter of the burnt wood. To analyse the vegetation changes over the last four decades, we resurveyed plant composition of 60 quasi-permanent plots established in 1975. The shift from historical coppicing to current high-forest management was likely a main driver of the observed taxonomic homogenisation and decline of light-demanding plants, as in other European lowland forests. Long-term data from charcoal kilns showed, however, that closed-canopy forests dominated by beech were historically more common and observed changes in vegetation thus represent a natural process. Findings also suggest that coppicing taking place over centuries en-hanced diversity of forest understorey vegetation.
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
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Vegetation Science
ISSN
1100-9233
e-ISSN
1654-1103
Volume of the periodical
32
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
e12923
UT code for WoS article
000556422600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85089109616