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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

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

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

EH - Ekologie – společenstva

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LO1415" target="_blank" >LO1415: CzechGlobe 2020 - Rozvoj Centra pro studium dopadů globální změny klimatu</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Biological Conservation

ISSN

0006-3207

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

204

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

part B

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

394-402

Kód UT WoS článku

000390968900030

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85006324072