The historical disturbance regime of mountain Norway spruce forests in the Western Carpathians and its influence on current forest structure and composition

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 388, Issue , 2017, Pages 67-78

  Janda, Pavel ^a   Trotsiuk, Volodymyr ^a   Mikoláš, Martin ^a,b   Bače, Radek ^a   Nagel, Thomas A ^a,c   Seidl, Rupert ^d   Seedre, Meelis ^a   Morrissey, Robert C ^a   Kucbel, Stanislav ^e   Jaloviar, Peter ^e   Jasík, Marián ^a,b   Vysoký, Juraj ^a,b   Šamonil, Pavel ^f   Čada, Vojtěch ^a   Mrhalová, Hana ^a   Lábusová, Jana ^a   Nováková, Markéta H ^a   Rydval, Miloš ^a   Matějů, Lenka ^a   Svoboda, Miroslav ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b PRALES O Z   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN ZVOLEN   (Slovakia)

^f SILVA TAROUCA RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LANDSCAPE AND ORNAMENTAL GARDENING   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Dendroecology; Disturbance synchronization; Forest dynamics; Landscape ecology; Spatio temporal pattern; Stand structure

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEBRIS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFORESTATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DENDROECOLOGY; FOREST DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; STAND STRUCTURES;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; PEST OUTBREAK; REGENERATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE;

CARPATHIANS; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

PICEA ABIES; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84994885714     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.08.014     Document Type: Article

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