Compositional dynamics of natural forests in the Bialowieza National Park, northeastern Poland

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 229-238

  Bernadzki, Eugeniusz ^a   Bolibok, Leszek ^a   Brzeziecki, Bogdan ^a   Za̧jaczkowski, Jacek ^a   Zybura, Henryk ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Basal area; Compositional instability; DBH structure; Density; Forest succession; Long term study; Mixed temperate zone forest; Permanent plot

Indexed keywords

FLORISTIC COMPOSITION; FOREST DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; SUCCESSION;

BIALOWIEZA NATIONAL PARK; POLAND;

ACER PLATANOIDES; ALNUS GLUTINOSA; BETULA PUBESCENS; CARPINUS BETULUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULUS TREMULA; QUERCUS ROBUR; SALIX CAPREA; TILIA CORDATA; VETULA PENDULA;

EID: 0031864381     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3237122     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Faliński, J.B. 1986. Vegetation dynamics in temperate low-land primeval forests. Ecological studies in Białowieża forest. Geobotany 8: 1-537. Junk, Dordrecht.
2. Faliński, J.B. 1988. Succession, regeneration and fluctuation in the Białowieża Forest (NE Poland). Vegetatio 77: 115-128.
3. Hytteborn, H., Packham, J.R. & Verwijst, T. 1987. Tree population dynamics, stand structure and species composition in the montane virgin forest of Vallibäcken, northern Sweden. Vegetatio 72: 3-19.
4. Koop, H. 1989. Forest dynamics. SYLVI-STAR: A comprehensive monitoring system. Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg.
5. Koop, H. & Hilgen, P. 1987. Forest dynamics and regeneration mosaic shifts in unexploited beech (Fagus sylvatica) stands at Fontainebleau (France). Forest Ecol. Manage. 20: 135-150.
6. Kossak, S. 1995. Game animal numbers in the Białowieża Forest and proposed ways of game management. Sylwan 139, 8: 25-41. (In Polish with English summary.)
7. Malmer, N., Lindgren, L. & Persson, S. 1978. Vegetational succession in a South Swedish deciduous wood. Vegetatio 36: 17-29.
8. Meyer, P. 1997. Probleme und Perspektiven der Naturwaldforschung am Beispiel Niedersachsens. Forstarchiv 68: 87-98.
9. Paczoski, J. 1930. Lasy Białowieży (The forests of Białowieża). Rada Ochrony Przyrody. Poznań. (In Polish.)
10. Peterken, G.F. & Jones, E.W. 1987. Forty years of change in Lady Park Wood: The old growth stands. J. Ecol. 75: 477-512.
11. Puchalski, T. 1972. Rȩbnie w gospodarstwie leśnym (Silvicultural Systems for Forest Management). PWRiL. Warszawa.
12. Seferyniak, S. 1925. Puszcza Białowieska jako teren łowiecki przed wojnà światowà (Białowieża Primeval Forest as a hunting area before the World War). Las Polski 6, 7, 9: 260-267, 310-316, 418-424. (In Polish.)
13. Sokołowski, A.W. 1991. Changes in species composition of a mixed Scots pine-Norway spruce forest at the Augustów Forest during the period 1964-1987. Folia Forestalia Polonica.Ser. A - For. 33: 5-23.
14. Sprugel, D.O. 1991. Disturbance, equilibrium, and environmental variability: what is 'natural' vegetation in a changing environment? Biol. Conserv. 58: 1-18.
15. Sykes, M.T. & Prentice, I.C. 1995. Boreal forest futures: modelling the controls on tree species range limits and transient responses to climate change. Water Air Soil Poll. 82: 415-428.
16. Wiȩcko, E. 1984. Puszcza Białowieska (Białowieża Primeval Forest). PWN. Warszawa. (In Polish.)
17. Włoczewski, T. 1954. Materiały do poznania zależności miȩdzy drzewostanem a glebà w czasie i w przestrzeni (Materials for study of the temporal and spatial relationships between forest stand and soil conditions). Roczniki Nauk Leśnych 5: 161-241. (In Polish.)