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DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2019.05.073
	Active management promotes plant diversity in lowland forests: A landscape-scale experiment with two types of clearings
	Lanta V.; Mudrák O.; Liancourt P.; Bartoš M.; Chlumská Z.; Dvorský M.; Pusztaiová Z.; Münzbergová Z.; Sebek P.; Čížek L.; Doležal J.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0378-1127
起始页码	94
结束页码	103
卷号	448
英文摘要	Forestry intensification in Central European lowland forests leads to a substantial increase in canopy closure, which causes biodiversity decline and functional homogenization across multiple trophic levels. Small-scale canopy interventions such as local clearings with few left-over adult trees are proposed to halt such a decline but the outcomes can be highly scale- and site-dependent. Here two types of experimental clearings were applied – clearings connected to alluvial meadows distributed along migration river corridors versus clearings inside the forest – in an attempt to restore thermophilous oak forest diversity at six woodland sites in Central Europe. Within each clearing, we studied vegetation changes at two spatial scales (1600 m2 and 4 m2) for six years in relation to composition of surrounding habitats (closed forests, relict open forests, meadows, forest edges), soil seed bank and plant functional traits in order to assess the relative role of species pool, dispersal limitation and niche-based competition processes for forest diversity restoration. In both types of forest clearings, plant species diversity substantially increased, peaking in the second and third years after cutting the trees when the vegetation was still sparse. Afterwards, when the vegetation was becoming dense and plant competition increased, the species richness in clearings decreased but was still higher compared to other forest habitats. Species composition changed from thin-leafed, wind dispersible early colonizers represented by light-demanding short-lived species towards shade-tolerant perennial species. Connected clearings were more species-rich than isolated clearings at the larger scale, but less diverse at the fine scale, indicating larger within-site heterogeneity caused by lower dispersal limitation but stronger competition compared to isolated clearings. Light and nutrient-demanding plants were more diverse and abundant in connected than isolated clearings while threatened species of relict open forests tended to establish more in isolated clearings. Our results show the important role of clearing location within the landscape context for restoring plant biodiversity of lowland forests. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
英文关键词	Closed forest; Connected clearing; Isolated clearing; Open forest; Plant composition; Soil seed bank
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Bank protection; Biodiversity; Conservation; Ecosystems; Plant shutdowns; Restoration; Seed; Vegetation; Closed forest; Connected clearing; Isolated clearing; Open forests; Plant composition; Soil seed bank; Forestry; biodiversity; deciduous forest; experimental design; forest ecosystem; management practice; perennial plant; plant community; restoration ecology; seed bank; species diversity; species richness; trophic level; woodland; Biodiversity; Conservation; Ecosystems; Plants; Restoration; Central Europe
来源期刊	Forest Ecology and Management
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/155892
作者单位	Department of Functional Ecology, Institute of Botany CAS, Dukelská 135, Třeboň, 37901, Czech Republic; Department of Population Ecology, Institute of Botany CAS, Zámek 1, Průhonice, 25243, Czech Republic; Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, Prague, 12801, Czech Republic; Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, Branišovská 1160/31, České Budějovice, 37005, Czech Republic; Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 1760, České Budějovice, 37005, Czech Republic; Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 1760, České Budějovice, 37005, Czech Republic; Laboratotry of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lanta V.,Mudrák O.,Liancourt P.,et al. Active management promotes plant diversity in lowland forests: A landscape-scale experiment with two types of clearings[J],2019,448.
APA	Lanta V..,Mudrák O..,Liancourt P..,Bartoš M..,Chlumská Z..,...&Doležal J..(2019).Active management promotes plant diversity in lowland forests: A landscape-scale experiment with two types of clearings.Forest Ecology and Management,448.
MLA	Lanta V.,et al."Active management promotes plant diversity in lowland forests: A landscape-scale experiment with two types of clearings".Forest Ecology and Management 448(2019).