Matteo Cerioni (Avtor), Marek Brabec (Avtor), Radek Bače (Avtor), Endijs Baders (Avtor), Andrej Bončina (Avtor), Josef Brůna (Avtor), Thomas Andrew Nagel (Avtor), Ewa Chećko (Avtor), Thomas Cordonnier (Avtor), Johannes H.C. de Koning (Avtor), Jurij Diaci (Avtor), Gal Fidej (Avtor), Matija Klopčič (Avtor)

Povzetek

Recent observations of tree regeneration failures following large and severe disturbances, particularly under warm and dry conditions, have raised concerns about the resilience of forest ecosystems and their recovery dynamics in the face of climate change. We investigated the recovery of temperate forests in Europe after large and severe disturbance events (i.e., resulting in more than 70% canopy loss in patches larger than 1 ha), with a range of one to five decades since the disturbance occurred. The study included 143 sites of different forest types and management practices that had experienced 28 disturbance events, including windthrow (132 sites), fire (six sites), and bark beetle outbreaks (five sites). We focused on assessing post-disturbance tree density, structure, and composition as key indicators of forest resilience. We compared post-disturbance height-weighted densities with site-specific pre-disturbance densities to qualitatively assess the potential for structural and compositional recovery, overall and for dominant tree species, respectively. Additionally, we analyzed the ecological drivers of post-windthrow tree density, such as forest management, topography, and post-disturbance aridity, using a series of generalized additive models. The descriptive results show that European temperate forests have been resilient to past large and severe disturbances and concurrent climate conditions, albeit with lower resilience to high-severity fire compared with other disturbance agents. Across sites and disturbance agents, the potential for structural recovery was greater than that of compositional recovery, with a large proportion of plots becoming dominated by early-successional species after disturbance. The models showed that increasing elevation and salvage logging negatively affect post-windthrow regeneration, particularly for late-successional species, while pioneer species are negatively affected by increasing summer aridity. These findings provide a key baseline for assessing future recovery and resilience following the recent occurrence of widespread disturbance in the region and in anticipation of future conditions characterized by increasing heat and drought stress.

Ključne besede

okoljsko filtriranje;reorganizacija gozdov;gozdna inventura;obnova po motnjah;sanitarna sečnja;environmental filtering;forest reorganization;ground-based inventories;post-disturbance regeneration;recovery drivers;salvage logging;

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Jezik: Angleški jezik
Leto izida:
Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
Organizacija: UL BF - Biotehniška fakulteta
UDK: 630*23:630*42/43
COBISS: 184142595 Povezava se bo odprla v novem oknu
ISSN: 1365-2486
Št. ogledov: 214
Št. prenosov: 11
Ocena: 0 (0 glasov)
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Sekundarni jezik: Slovenski jezik
Sekundarne ključne besede: okoljsko filtriranje;reorganizacija gozdov;gozdna inventura;obnova po motnjah;sanitarna sečnja;
Vrsta dela (COBISS): Revija
Strani: str. 1-18
Letnik: ǂVol. ǂ30
Zvezek: ǂiss. ǂ2 [e17159]
Čas izdaje: 2024
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17159
ID: 22859686