Conservation implications of forest changes caused by bark beetle management in the Šumava National Park

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F16%3A00467344" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/16:00467344 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41330/16:73276 RIV/60076658:12310/16:43891229 RIV/00216208:11310/16:10332729

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.11.001" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.11.001</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.11.001" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.biocon.2016.11.001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Conservation implications of forest changes caused by bark beetle management in the Šumava National Park

Original language description

The question, whether the forest management adopted in several European national parks following natural disturbances (windstorms, bark beetle) is in the long term the optimal one is currently widely discussed in a pan-European context. Instead of a clear management policy, however, only non-compulsory recommendations are suggested and management directives are missing. For example, it is established that non-intervention management is optimal for preserving biodiversity in mountain spruce stands, as logging diminishes biodiversity, but no such recommendation has been passed on to the managers of these stands. In the absence of such guidance park managers adopt various suboptimal strategies, which depend on who owns a particular area of the forest (private or state-owned) and their priorities. Here we present an example of this: the differences between the management practices applied by state and private owners in the central part of the Šumava NP. Using aerial photographs, we evaluated the effect of these practices by comparing the status of Natura 2000 habitats in 2004 (when the Natura 2000 area was designated), with that in 2011 (four years after the Kyrill wind storm, when the post-wind storm activities had more or less finished). The private owner logged and removed trees from significantly larger areas than the Šumava NP Authority. However, even management by the Šumava NP Authority was sometimes suboptimal: they managed some valuable habitats in a similar way to those of lower conservation value. We conclude that a clear definition of the long-term management strategy for national parks, obligatory on all owners, is critically important for the management of Natura 2000 habitats.

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

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1415" target="_blank" >LO1415: CzechGlobe 2020 – Development of the Centre of Global Climate Change Impacts Studies</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Biological Conservation

ISSN

0006-3207

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

204

Issue of the periodical within the volume

part B

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

394-402

UT code for WoS article

000390968900030

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85006324072