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Survival time and mortality rate of regeneration in the deep shade of a primeval beech forest / R. Petrovska in European Journal of Forest Research, vol 141 n° 1 (February 2022)  

Public [article]  inEuropean Journal of Forest Research > vol 141 n° 1 (February 2022) . - pp 43 - 58 Titre : Survival time and mortality rate of regeneration in the deep shade of a primeval beech forest Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : R. Petrovska, Auteur ; Harald Bugmann, Auteur ; Martina Lena Hobi, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : pp 43 - 58 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] Acer platanoïdes [Termes IGN] Acer pseudoplatanus [Termes IGN] analyse de données [Termes IGN] arbre mort [Termes IGN] biomasse aérienne [Termes IGN] croissance des arbres [Termes IGN] dendrochronologie [Termes IGN] échantillonnage [Termes IGN] Fagus sylvatica [Termes IGN] forêt primaire [Termes IGN] Leaf Mass per Area [Termes IGN] mortalité [Termes IGN] ombre [Termes IGN] régénération (sylviculture) [Termes IGN] Ukraine [Vedettes matières IGN] Sylviculture Résumé : (auteur) Low mortality rates and slow growth differentiate shade-tolerant from shade-intolerant species and define the survival strategy of juvenile trees growing in deep shade. While radial stem growth has been widely used to explain mortality in juvenile trees, the leaf area ratio (LAR), known to be a key component of shade tolerance, has been neglected so far. We assessed the effects of LAR, radial stem growth and tree height on survival time and the age-specific mortality rate of juvenile Fagus sylvatica L. (European beech), Acer pseudoplatanus L. (sycamore maple) and Acer platanoides L. (Norway maple) in a primeval beech forest (Ukraine). Aboveground and belowground biomass and radial stem growth were analysed for 289 living and 179 dead seedlings and saplings. Compared with the other species, F. sylvatica featured higher LAR, slower growth and a lower mortality rate. The average survival time of F. sylvatica juveniles (72 years) allows it to reach the canopy more often than its competitors in forests with low canopy turnover rate. In contrast, a combination of lower LAR, higher growth rate and higher age-specific mortality rate of the two Acer species resulted in their shorter survival times and thus render their presence in the canopy a rare event. Overall, this study suggests that shade tolerance, commonly defined as a relationship between sapling mortality and growth, can alternatively be formulated as a relationship between survival time and the interplay of growth and LAR. Numéro de notice : A2022-199 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10342-021-01427-3 Date de publication en ligne : 05/11/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-021-01427-3 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100000 [article]

Spatial patterns of living and dead small trees in subalpine Norway spruce forest reserves in Switzerland / Eva Bianchi in Forest ecology and management, vol 494 (August-15 2021)  

Public [article]  inForest ecology and management > vol 494 (August-15 2021) . - n° 119315 Titre : Spatial patterns of living and dead small trees in subalpine Norway spruce forest reserves in Switzerland Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Eva Bianchi, Auteur ; Harald Bugmann, Auteur ; Martina Lena Hobi, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 119315 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] analyse de groupement [Termes IGN] distance [Termes IGN] espace topologique [Termes IGN] fonction K de Ripley [Termes IGN] forêt alpestre [Termes IGN] forêt subalpine [Termes IGN] mortalité [Termes IGN] Picea abies [Termes IGN] régénération (sylviculture) [Termes IGN] réserve forestière [Termes IGN] Suisse [Termes IGN] topographie locale [Termes IGN] voisinage (relation topologique) [Vedettes matières IGN] Ecologie forestière Résumé : (auteur) Spatial patterns can reveal a lot about ecological processes, but our knowledge of the spatial ecology of tree regeneration at a fine scale is quite limited. Therefore, we studied the spatial patterns of living and dead small trees in two subalpine Norway spruce forest reserves in Switzerland (Scatlè and Bödmerenwald) using three types of analyses. First, we investigated the distances of small trees to the nearest large neighboring tree and, by using maximum distances as indicator, inferred the size of forest gaps, detecting mainly forest gaps of small size, although with two exceptions that were driven by large-scale disturbances. Second, we accounted for spatial inhomogeneity in the pattern of small and large trees (i.e., variations in local tree densities) by including environmental covariates in point pattern models. Latitude (within the forest reserve), elevation and aspect contributed significantly to explaining the density of living and dead small trees, and partly of living and dead large trees. Yet, the influence of these environmental covariates varied between the two reserves due to their different topography and peculiar site conditions. Third, we analyzed neighborhood interactions between small and large trees based on the vicinity and size of trees. In both forest reserves, small living trees were randomly dispersed around large dead trees over a broad range of distances and, at certain distances in one reserve, even dispersed away from them. Small living trees further showed clustering around large living trees at short distances and dispersion at large distances. Small dead trees featured mainly a random pattern, although with a tendency to cluster around large neighbors at short distances, irrespective whether these were living or dead. Yet, the weakening of clustering with increasing distances indicates that the influence of large trees on small trees varies with spatial scale and thus that these neighborhood interactions are scale-dependent. Overall, our study contributes to a better understanding of the spatial ecology of mortality in small trees and ultimately of tree regeneration processes and stand dynamics in mountain forests. Numéro de notice : A2021-583 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119315 Date de publication en ligne : 11/05/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119315 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98198 [article]

Calibration of the process-based model 3-PG for major central European tree species / David I. Forrester in European Journal of Forest Research, vol 140 n° 4 (August 2021)  

Public [article]  inEuropean Journal of Forest Research > vol 140 n° 4 (August 2021) . - pp 847 - 868 Titre : Calibration of the process-based model 3-PG for major central European tree species Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : David I. Forrester, Auteur ; Martina Lena Hobi, Auteur ; Amanda S. Mathys, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : pp 847 - 868 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] biomasse forestière [Termes IGN] changement climatique [Termes IGN] estimation bayesienne [Termes IGN] étalonnage de modèle [Termes IGN] Europe centrale [Termes IGN] inventaire forestier étranger (données) [Termes IGN] modèle de croissance végétale [Termes IGN] modélisation de la forêt [Termes IGN] peuplement mélangé [Termes IGN] régression [Termes IGN] Suisse [Vedettes matières IGN] Inventaire forestier Résumé : (auteur) Process-based forest models are important tools for predicting forest growth and their vulnerability to factors such as climate change or responses to management. One of the most widely used stand-level process-based models is the 3-PG model (Physiological Processes Predicting Growth), which is used for applications including estimating wood production, carbon budgets, water balance and susceptibility to climate change. Few 3-PG parameter sets are available for central European species and even fewer are appropriate for mixed-species forests. Here we estimated 3-PG parameters for twelve major central European tree species using 1418 long-term permanent forest monitoring plots from managed forests, 297 from un-managed forest reserves and 784 Swiss National Forest Inventory plots. A literature review of tree physiological characteristics, as well as regression analyses and Bayesian inference, were used to calculate the 3-PG parameters. The Swiss-wide calibration, based on monospecific plots, showed a robust performance in predicting forest stocks such as stem, foliage and root biomass. The plots used to inform the Bayesian calibration resulted in posterior ranges of the calibrated parameters that were, on average, 69% of the prior range. The bias of stem, foliage and root biomass predictions was generally less than 20%, and less than 10% for several species. The parameter sets also provided reliable predictions of biomass and mean tree sizes in mixed-species forests. Given that the information sources used to develop the parameters included a wide range of climatic, edaphic and management conditions and long time spans (from 1930 to present), these species parameters for 3-PG are likely to be appropriate for most central European forests and conditions. Numéro de notice : A2021-717 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10342-021-01370-3 Date de publication en ligne : 18/03/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-021-01370-3 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98630 [article]