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Species-specific deadwood density, its controlling factors and its role in the estimation of deadwood C stock of a Virgin European Beech-Silver Fir Mixed Forest in the Southern Carpathians / Ion Catalin Petritan in SSRN [preprint electronic journal], vol 2023 ([01/02/2023])  

Public [article]  inSSRN [preprint electronic journal] > vol 2023 [01/02/2023] Titre : Species-specific deadwood density, its controlling factors and its role in the estimation of deadwood C stock of a Virgin European Beech-Silver Fir Mixed Forest in the Southern Carpathians Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Ion Catalin Petritan, Auteur Année de publication : 2023 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] Abies alba [Termes IGN] bois mort [Termes IGN] Carpates [Termes IGN] décomposition [Termes IGN] densité du bois [Termes IGN] estimation statistique [Termes IGN] Fagus sylvatica [Termes IGN] peuplement mélangé [Termes IGN] puits de carbone [Vedettes matières IGN] Ecologie forestière Résumé : (auteur) Deadwood is a fundamental structural and functional component of forests, with a crucial role in supporting the forest biodiversity and nutrient and carbon cycling. Precise deadwood density estimates are necessary to evaluate the biomass and carbon stocked in this component. For a better understanding of the deadwood dynamics in natural forests, given its higher abundance, it is important to achieve deeper knowledge about its decay rate and how it is influenced by environmental factors. In this study, we estimated dry deadwood density for two different tree species, silver fir (Abies alba) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and for three snags and five logs decomposition classes (class 1 representing snag/log deadwood at early stages of decomposition and class 3/5 representing snags or logs, respectively, at its most advanced state of decomposition) in a virgin mixed beech-fir forest in the Southern Carpathians. The goal of this study was to assess how deadwood density is influenced by different abiotic (moisture, elevation, slope, aspect) and wood-related factors (rottenness, position of the sampling along the deadwood piece, the contact with the soil).For snags, the mean dry density showed a reduced variability within decomposition classes (484-326 kg.m-3 for beech and 374-319 kg.m-3 for fir), compared to the logs (486-139 kg.m-3 for beech and 359-161 kg.m-3 for fir). While the mass moisture varied slowly in the first three decay classes (around 60-80%), it increased sharply in the last two decay classes of logs (> 140% in the fourth classes and > 350% in the last one). The rottenness increased with the decay degree in a similar way for both species. The contact of logs with the soil influenced positively the moisture of the log, but the position of the sampling along the piece did not play any significant role in the variability of density. The density estimates per decay classes were used to compare the amount of carbon (C) sequestered as deadwood for each species. The mean biomass of C as deadwood at Sinca virgin forest varied greatly among the 21 plots from 0.36 to 41.16 MgC ha-1, with a mean value of 15.96 ± 2.36 (±SE) MgC ha-1.Our study suggests that volume-based calculations might yield biased quantitative estimates of C stored as deadwood unless a local estimate of dead wood density corrected per species and decomposition class is applied. Moreover, using an averaged value of dry density instead of dry density value for each decay class may result in an overestimation of 22% on the estimation of C stock sequestered as deadwood. Thus, our study may also help planning future inventories of C stocks in other virgin forests and for other species, (e.g., make emphasis in estimating densities in all decay classes). Furthermore, it could serve as a methodological basis for more specific research designed to uncover the potential influence of different forest management practices on dry deadwood density. Numéro de notice : A2023-085 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.2139/ssrn.4350235 En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4350235 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=102857 [article]