scholarly journals Habitat fragmentation and forest management alter woody plant communities in a Central European beech forest landscape

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 2729-2747
Author(s):  
Kevin Wilhelm Bähner ◽  
Marcelo Tabarelli ◽  
Burkhard Büdel ◽  
Rainer Wirth
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Habitat Fragmentation ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Woody Plant ◽  
European Beech ◽  
Beech Forest ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Central European

Nine decades of major compositional changes in a Central European beech forest protected area

Plant Ecology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 221 (10) ◽  
pp. 1005-1016
Author(s):  
Romana Prausová ◽  
Jan Doležal ◽  
Marcel Rejmánek
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
European Beech ◽  
Beech Forest ◽  
Central European ◽  
Compositional Changes

The effects of windthrow on plant species richness in a Central European beech forest

Plant Ecology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 191 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goddert von Oheimb ◽  
Agnes Friedel ◽  
Annette Bertsch ◽  
Werner Härdtle
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
European Beech ◽  
Plant Species Richness ◽  
Beech Forest ◽  
Central European

scholarly journals Climate and Management Factors Underlying Changes in Beech Forest Herbaceous Layer Plant Communities in the Polish Eastern Carpathians

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1446
Author(s):  
Anna Bugno-Pogoda ◽  
Tomasz Durak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Beech Forest ◽  
Herbaceous Layer ◽  
Beech Forests ◽  
Herbaceous Vegetation ◽  
Understorey Vegetation ◽  
Eastern Carpathians

The herbaceous vegetation and forest stand characteristics in European beech forests growing in the Polish part of the Eastern Carpathians have changed over the last 40 years. This has been influenced by many factors, including land-use change, forest management and climate change. This study investigates changes in forest cover and structure and the associated changes in herbaceous layer plant communities and seeks to elucidate whether and how beech forest herbaceous layer communities have been affected by climate change. The study used information from archival and current land cover maps, semi-permanent sampling plots, forest management plans for the Forest Districts of Brzozów, Lesko and Ustrzyki Dolne and meteorological weather station data compiled for three study periods of herbaceous vegetation (1970s, 2000s, 2010s). In the study area, the regular shelterwood system was changed to an irregular shelterwood system that produces stands with a complex overstorey structure. The results revealed the important role of light availability in shaping the species composition of the herbaceous layer in semi-natural Carpathian beech forests, which was strongly related to the course of management activities. An overall decrease in the number of species during the 2010s is linked to the ageing of beech forests, increased intensity of management activities in ageing stands, competition from understorey vegetation and lower soil moisture that can be linked to climate change. Our study partially supports the existing findings that more manipulative forest management systems can play an important role in countering the current and expected effects of climate change on the forest ecosystem because of the low degree of spatial differentiation of the stand’s structure (developmental stages). Therefore, foresters managing the structure of stands should strive to create a forest structure with high variability of developmental stages on a regional scale.

scholarly journals Woody plant communities in the Philippine teak forest landscape along Verde Island Passage, Batangas, Luzon, Philippines

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anacleto Macatangay Caringal ◽  
INOCENCIO Jr BUOT ◽  
ELAINE LOREEN C. VILLANUEVA
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Woody Plant ◽  
Basal Area ◽  
Woody Species ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Pure Stand ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Critically Endangered Species ◽  
Ecological Requirements

Abstract. Caringal AM, Buot IE Jr, Villanueva ELC. 2019. Woody plant communities in the Philippine teak forest landscape along Verde Island Passage, Batangas, Luzon, Philippines. Biodiversitas 20: 3189-3198. The study described the communities of woody plants in a semi-evergreen tropical forest dominated by endemic Philippine teak (Tectona philippinensis Benth. & Hook. f, Lamiaceae) and determined the local environmental factors affecting the distribution of dominant woody species across the Philippine teak forest (PTF) landscape. The Philippine teak is a Critically Endangered species according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Quantitative dominance analysis of arboreal vegetation data (basal area and relative dominance) from 24 (20m x 20m) sampling plots generated the cluster dendrogram, while Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) was performed for 47 woody species and habitat-environment variables. As a result, four vegetation zones were named: (I) pure stand of Tectona philippinensis, (II) mixed T. philippinensis-Garuga floribunda-Terminalia polyantha, (III) mixed Celtis latifolia-T. philippinensis and (IV) mixed Tamarindus indica-Xylocarpus rumphii. These zones were governed more by physiographic (altitude ) and edaphic influences of predominantly agro-coastal landscapes. The environmental variables were essential in verifying not only the association of dominant tree flora in the local landscape but also provide insight for forest management zoning and the ecological requirements of the tree species for in-situ and ex-situ biodiversity conservation.  

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