Sub-fossil bark beetles as indicators of past disturbance events in temperate Picea abies mountain forests

0551544 - BÚ 2023 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Schafstall, N. - Kuosmanen, N. - Kuneš, P. - Svitavská Svobodová, Helena - Svitok, M. - Chiverrell, R. C. - Halsall, K. - Fleischer, P. - Knížek, M. - Clear, J. L.
Sub-fossil bark beetles as indicators of past disturbance events in temperate Picea abies mountain forests.
Quaternary Science Reviews. Roč. 275, January 1 (2022), č. článku 107289. ISSN 0277-3791. E-ISSN 1873-457X
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : sediment-charcoal records * tatra national-park * natural disturbances * ips-typographus * pine-beetle * pityogenes-chalcographus * fire-history * management * dynamics * impacts
OECD category: Ecology
Impact factor: 4, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107289

Temperate mountain forests have experienced an increase in frequency and severity of natural disturabances (e.g., droughts, fires, windstorms and insect outbreaks) in recent decades due to climate and environmental change. Outbreaks of bark beetles have caused significant dieback of conifer forests in Central Europe and it is essential to model and predict the potential severity of future bark beetle outbreaks. A fossil beetle record from a forest hollow in the Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, was compared with parallel pollen and charcoal to assess disturbances. A significant correlation was found between primary bark beetles and macroscopic charcoal densities in the sediment, highlighting the complex interactions between disturbance agents, bark beetles and fire, in this long-term regime of natural disturbances.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0339273