Ranking the key forest habitats in ecosystem function provision: Case study from morava river basin

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/44555601:13520/21:43895990 RIV/25173154:_____/21:N0000006 RIV/61989592:15310/21:73608847

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/2/138" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/2/138</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12020138" target="_blank" >10.3390/f12020138</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ranking the key forest habitats in ecosystem function provision: Case study from morava river basin

Original language description

Floodplain forests are considered important forest ecosystems, and providers of ecosystem functions and services. The subject of this research was to assess the level of provision of five selected ecosystem functions (climate regulation and regulation of short water cycle, biomass production, oxygen production, and carbon sequestration) and biodiversity by relevant groups of forest habitats, and their mutual comparison. Assessment of ecosystem functions was performed in biophysical units based on published data, our own research, and expert knowledge. The results showed the high importance of floodplain forests. In the majority of the services that were studied, this habitat reached high values and, in comparison with the other habitats, took one of the leading positions. When comparing the ranking in the provision of individual ecosystem functions per unit area, the best-assessed habitat in all assessed functions was floodplain and wetland forests, followed by ravine forests and beech forests, but the analysis of the rate of ecosystem function provision, related to the total area of interest, showed a different order of values. Understanding the context of the individual ecosystem functions of natural ecosystems and those close to nature, in comparison with anthropogenically altered ecosystems is a suggested route for ecologically and economically balanced landscape decision-making, which may increase the efficiency of nature and landscape protection.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Forests

ISSN

1999-4907

e-ISSN

1999-4907

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

138

UT code for WoS article

000622495100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85100378784