Harvesting intensity and tree species affect soil respiration in uneven-aged Dinaric forest stands

0539599 - ÚVGZ 2022 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Čater, M. - Dařenová, Eva - Simoncic, P.
Harvesting intensity and tree species affect soil respiration in uneven-aged Dinaric forest stands.
Forest Ecology and Management. Roč. 480, JAN 15 (2021), č. článku 118638. ISSN 0378-1127. E-ISSN 1872-7042
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Keywords : Harvesting intensity * Soil CO2 efflux * Silviculture * Carbon release * Silver fir, beech and Norway spruce forests
OECD category: Forestry
Impact factor: 4.384, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Limited access
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Forest management, especially thinning and harvesting measures, has a significant impact on the forest carbon balance especially in the forests with long-term continuous cover history. We measured soil CO2 efflux (Rs) in three forest complexes of mixed, uneven-aged Dinaric forests with predominating silver fir (Abies alba Mill.), beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), and Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.). Rs was measured after removal of mature forest stands with 50% and 100% intensity of living stock and compared with Rs on the control plots without any applied silvicultural measures. Rs was measured monthly in three consecutive 2012, 2013 and 2014 growing periods.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0317307