Dynamics of ground vegetation after surface fires in hemiboreal Pinus sylvestris forests

Marozas, Vitas; Račinskas, Jonas; Bartkevičius, Edmundas

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.03.008

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“…There are also other species such as Calluna vulgaris and Veronica officinalis which penetrate calamity sites, and these are particularly noted on the FIR site here. The presence of Veronica officinalis on sites disturbed by fire was also noted by Marozas et al [49], who recorded this species occurrence only on burned areas rather than on control plots. However, some forest species including Gentiana asclepiadea, Oxalis acetosella, Dryopteris filix-mas and Polygonatum verticillatum were completely absent here.…”

Section: Changes In Herb Vegetationsupporting

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“…It colonizes new sites due to the production of a very high amount of seeds with good spreading capability [42]. This nitrophilous species has the highest abundance on sites affected by fire [49]. There are also other species such as Calluna vulgaris and Veronica officinalis which penetrate calamity sites, and these are particularly noted on the FIR site here.…”

Section: Changes In Herb Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The wind and fire disturbance in Central European mountain spruce forests: the regeneration after four years

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A strong windstorm in November 2004 resulted in a huge blown-down spruce forest area in the southern part of the Tatra National Park in the Western Carpathians in Slovakia, Central Europe. The aim of this work is to study the vegetation composition of spruce forest at differently managed sites four years after this disturbance. Four study areas were selected for this purpose: (i) an area where the fallen trees were extracted and new seedlings were planted; (ii) an area, which was hit by a forest fire after the extraction; (iii) an area where no active management was applied; (iv) a reference forest unaffected by such disturbance. A total of 100 plots were selected, 25 of each area type. The result of DCA and CCA analyses consistently indicated that after this short period the non-extracted and extracted areas are currently most similar to the reference forest area, while the fire affected area differed. A one-way ANOVA comparing species cover for the different plot sizes indicated some significant differences between the extracted and non-extracted plots. The abundance of certain species commonly occurring in spruce forests, such as Dyopteris carthusiana agg., Vaccinium myrtillus and Avenella flexuosa, correlated weli with the non-extracted plots, compared to the extracted plots. Coverage of these species was lowest on burned plots. The lowest Shannon-Wiener’s diversity values were recorded in burned plots. This was most likely a consequence of mono-dominant competitive species spread, (mainly Chamerion angustifolium) which profited from the altered ecological conditions following the fire. Although some differences were also registered in the Shannon-Wiener diversity index between the remaining research plots, however these were not statistically significant. The most important results of our investigations include the extensive influence of fire disturbance on vegetation. Study revealed that the wind-disturbed area is able to regenerate sufficiently without human intervention

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Section: Changes In Herb Vegetationsupporting

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The wind and fire disturbance in Central European mountain spruce forests: the regeneration after four years

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“…Richness of species increased after surface fire. Marozas et al (2007) stated that surface fire leads to richness of land vegetation cover and preliminary substitute species generally help further richness. The authors believe that most pioneer species appear in burnt regions within 1-3 years after a fire incident, which might be due to changing competition conditions and increasing nutrient contents.…”

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Effect of repeated fire on understory plant species diversity in Saravan forests, northern Iran

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Pashaki³

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Folia Forestalia Polonica, Seria a - Forestry

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Fire usually causes changes in the composition and diversity of herbaceous species. The present paper aimed to study the effect of repeated fire incidents on understory species diversity in the Saravan forests of Guilan Province located in the north of Iran. To do so, three 50-hectare areas with identical physiographical conditions and overstory (hand-planted softwood Pinus taeda) were selected. Seven fire incidences occurred for the 10-year period in one of the areas and the other area experienced three fire incidents within the same period. The area with no fire incidents was considered as the control area. All the fire incidents were surface ones. The systematic random method with a sample size 100 × 200 m was used for collecting data. Based on the above, 25 samples were determined in each area. The whole coverage of the understory was taken into consideration using Whittaker's method and the Domain criterion so as to calculate species diversity indices. The results showed that Shannon-Wiener diversity and Menhinick's richness in the regions which experienced 3 and 7 fire incidents were maximum and minimum, respectively, whereas no significant difference was seen between the regions with regard to Smith and Wilson's evenness index.

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“…Health of forest in every place is indicator of ecological conditions in that area (Zhang & Chen;. One of dangers that threatens forests is fire which causes to area ecology change by irreparable damages (Xu et al, 2005;Vakalis et al, 2004) and threatens these habitat makers permanently (Marozas et al, 2007) in the way that annual average of fire forests areas has been estimated six to fourteen million hectare in the world (Encinas et al, 2007). Actually forest's fire with either natural source or human source has harmful and destructive effects on human's life (Kazemi et al, 2005Podur et al, 2002.…”

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Fire Risk Potential Checking in Forests using Fire Risk Model

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International Journal of Constructive Research in Civil Enginee

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Dynamics of ground vegetation after surface fires in hemiboreal Pinus sylvestris forests

Cited by 79 publications

References 28 publications

The wind and fire disturbance in Central European mountain spruce forests: the regeneration after four years

The wind and fire disturbance in Central European mountain spruce forests: the regeneration after four years

Effect of repeated fire on understory plant species diversity in Saravan forests, northern Iran

Fire Risk Potential Checking in Forests using Fire Risk Model

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