Historical charcoal burning and coppicing suppressed beech and increased forest vegetation heterogeneity

0543593 - BÚ 2022 RIV NL eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Máliš, F. - Bobek, Přemysl - Hédl, Radim - Chudomelová, Markéta - Petřík, Petr - Ujházy, K. - Ujházyová, M. - Kopecký, Martin
Historical charcoal burning and coppicing suppressed beech and increased forest vegetation heterogeneity.
Journal of Vegetation Science. Roč. 32, č. 1 (2021), č. článku e12923. ISSN 1100-9233. E-ISSN 1654-1103
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985939
Klíčová slova: anthracology * coppicing * historical ecology
Obor OECD: Ecology
Impakt faktor: 3.389, rok: 2021
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12923

To explore the historical forest structure and long-term changes in tree composition, we sampled charcoal remains from 28 historical kilns, identified the burnt tree taxa and estimated the original diameter of the burnt wood. To analyse the vegetation changes over the last four decades, we resurveyed plant composition of 60 quasi-permanent plots established in 1975. The shift from historical coppicing to current high-forest management was likely a main driver of the observed taxonomic homogenisation and decline of light-demanding plants, as in other European lowland forests. Long-term data from charcoal kilns showed, however, that closed-canopy forests dominated by beech were historically more common and observed changes in vegetation thus represent a natural process. Findings also suggest that coppicing taking place over centuries en-hanced diversity of forest understorey vegetation.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0320912