Are bark beetles responsible for droughts in the Šumava Mts.? A mini-review

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23361964.2016.16" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23361964.2016.16</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23361964.2016.16" target="_blank" >10.14712/23361964.2016.16</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Are bark beetles responsible for droughts in the Šumava Mts.? A mini-review

Original language description

We attempt here to review recent studies focusing on droughts and hydrology in the Šumava Mts. The main question is can bark beetles affect water regimes in forest and what kind of measures might be taken – if any – to prevent bark beetle attacks. We compared results for natural forest, clear-cuts in managed forest and dead forest killed by a bark beetle attack. As expected, there was more water and a lower air temperature above the soil surface in natural forest. Dead trees shade undergrowth and so moderate temperature fluctuations. The conditions in clear-cuts are the worst for natural forest regeneration. There are no significant changes in the water cycle in catchment areas affected by bark beetle infections. However, it is predicted there is likely to be a slow decline in the amount of water due to a local change in climate, i.e. air temperature increase and precipitation decrease. It is concluded that droughts might occur more often and independently of bark beetle outbreaks in the future.nn

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

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

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

European Journal of Environmental Sciences

ISSN

1805-0174

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

108-113

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85020549623