Post-fire forest floor succession in a Central European temperate forest depends on organic matter input from recovering vegetation rather than on pyrogenic carbon input from fire

0571012 - BC 2024 RIV NL eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Jílková, Veronika - Adámek, M. - Angst, Gerrit - Tůmová, Michala - Devetter, Miloslav
Post-fire forest floor succession in a Central European temperate forest depends on organic matter input from recovering vegetation rather than on pyrogenic carbon input from fire.
Science of the Total Environment. Roč. 861, February (2023), č. článku 160659. ISSN 0048-9697. E-ISSN 1879-1026
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTC20058; GA ČR(CZ) GJ19-00533Y
Institucionální podpora: RVO:60077344
Klíčová slova: space-for-time substitution * chronosequence * coniferous forest * nutrients * microorganisms
Obor OECD: Soil science
Impakt faktor: 9.8, rok: 2022
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722077622?via%3Dihub

The predicted global increase in the frequency, severity, and intensity of forest fires includes Central Europe, which is not currently considered as a wildfire hotspot. Because of this, a detailed knowledge of long-term post-fire forest floor succession is essential for understanding the role of wildfires in Central European temperate forests. In this study, we used a space-for-time substitution approach and exploited a unique opportunity to observe successional changes in the physical, chemical, and microbial properties of the forest floor in coniferous forest stands on a chronosequence up to 110 years after fire. In addition, we assessed whether the depletion of organic matter (OM) and input of pyrogenic carbon (pyC) have significant effects on the post-fire forest floor succession. The bulk density (+174 %), pH (+4 %), and dissolved phosphorus content (+500 %) increased, whereas the water holding capacity (-51 %), content of total organic carbon and total nitrogen (-50 %), total phosphorus (-40 %), dissolved organic carbon (-23 %), microbial respiration and biomass (-60 %), and the abundance of fungi (-65 %) and bacteria (-45 %) decreased shortly after the fire event and then gradually decreased or increased, respectively, relative to the pre-disturbance state. The post-fire forest floor succession was largely dependent on changes in the OM content rather than the pyC content, and thus was dependent on vegetation recovery. The time needed to recover to the pre-disturbance state was <110 years for physical and chemical properties and < 45 years for microbial properties. These times closely correspond to previous studies focusing on the recovery of forest floor properties in different climate zones, suggesting that the times needed for forest vegetation and forest floor properties to recover to the pre-disturbance state are similar across climate zones.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0344243