2017
DOI: 10.1515/aslh-2017-0002
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Light Conditions, Soil Moisture, and Vegetation Cover in Artificial Forest Gaps in Western Hungary

Abstract: -One of the greatest challenges of continuous cover forest management is to find a suitable gap size in a given forest stand that will help the regeneration of economically significant tree species, and possibly control competitor species. This paper summarizes the results of a two-year intensive mapping of various bearing artificial gaps at two sites in western Hungary: a sessile-oak-hornbeam and a Turkey oak forest. Light conditions and soil moisture were measured in the gaps as abiotic variables. Hemispheri… Show more

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“…Journal of Forest Science, 66, 2020 (5): 185-196 https://doi.org/10.17221/25/2020-JFS forest stands and this phenomenon, "gap dynamics theory" is closely related to natural regeneration (Yamamoto 2000;. So, creating artificial gaps based on stand conditions has emerged as a widespread phenomenon to achieving forest regeneration and succession, including other management objectives (Kollár 2017;Lu et al 2018a). Disturbances that open gaps provide specific microenvironmental conditions in light, soil moisture, and temperature regimes, which often initiate regeneration processes and development (Yamamoto 2000;Tsvetanov et al 2018).…”
Section: Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Journal of Forest Science, 66, 2020 (5): 185-196 https://doi.org/10.17221/25/2020-JFS forest stands and this phenomenon, "gap dynamics theory" is closely related to natural regeneration (Yamamoto 2000;. So, creating artificial gaps based on stand conditions has emerged as a widespread phenomenon to achieving forest regeneration and succession, including other management objectives (Kollár 2017;Lu et al 2018a). Disturbances that open gaps provide specific microenvironmental conditions in light, soil moisture, and temperature regimes, which often initiate regeneration processes and development (Yamamoto 2000;Tsvetanov et al 2018).…”
Section: Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The mosaic-like landscape structure of this region consists mainly of agricultural fields, permanent grasslands with anthropogenic influence (mowing) with natural vegetation, and forest patches. The studied subcompartment was a homogenous turkey oak (Quercus cerris L. 1735) stand, aged 70 years (in 2014), containing 12 artificial gaps (#1-#12) opened in 2010 (approximately 15 × 30 m) (Kollár 2017). Only the gaps had understory, which was densely populated by turkey oak saplings and Rubus patches.…”
Section: Materials and Methods Study Sites And Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We choose to follow these practices in our survey. Since our present study is part of a larger, complex survey of the sub-compartment (Kollár 2017), we decided to keep and include the original designations of the gaps.…”
Section: Materials and Methods Study Sites And Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Canopy gaps generally support plant renewal, as demonstrated by certain regeneration parameters such as abundance, density, or growth of individuals (Zhu et al, 2014). Renewal parameters of the saplings in small-to-medium canopy gaps in oak forests were primarily related to the level of illumination, with increased light intensity positively affecting growth and shoot thickness (Březina and Dobrovolný, 2011;Zhu et al, 2014;Kollár, 2017). This positive effect is particularly large at the initial stage of the gap when the area is at the maximum (Zhu et al, 2014;Tinya et al, 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As a result, the species composition of post-renewal forest gaps can differ significantly from the intact canopy (Taylor and Lorimer, 2003). For these reasons, detailed studies are essential to reveal species-related characteristics of gap-phase regeneration considering the ecological response of the saplings (Di Filippo et al, 2010;Zhu et al, 2014;Kollár, 2017;Sebastiano et al, 2017;Elek et al, 2018;Löf et al, 2018;Tinya et al, 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%