Forest fires within a temperate landscape: A decadal and millennial perspective from a sandstone region in Central Europe

0448057 - BÚ 2016 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Adámek, Martin - Bobek, Přemysl - Hadincová, Věroslava - Wild, Jan - Kopecký, Martin
Forest fires within a temperate landscape: A decadal and millennial perspective from a sandstone region in Central Europe.
Forest Ecology and Management. Roč. 336, Jan 15 (2015), s. 81-90. ISSN 0378-1127. E-ISSN 1872-7042
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA14-22658S
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : wildfire * fire regima * pine forests
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour
Impact factor: 2.826, year: 2015

The main driving factors affecting the incidence of forest fires within sandstone landscape were topographic features. Additional important factors were forest composition features, especially the abundance of Pinus sylvestris. Analyses of soil charcoal concentrations correspond with contemporary forestry data indicating that fires have been occurring in similar fire-prone habitats at least since the Subatlantic period. Our results therefore show that fire affects long-term forest vegetation development also in temperate forests of Central Europe.
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