Recovery and resilience of European temperate forests after large and severe disturbances
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Recovery and resilience of European temperate forests after large and severe disturbances. / Cerioni, Matteo; Brabec, Marek; Bače, Radek; Bāders, Endijs; Bončina, Andrej; Brůna, Josef; Chećko, Ewa; Cordonnier, Thomas; de Koning, Johannes H.C.; Diaci, Jurij; Dobrowolska, Dorota; Dountchev, Alexander; Engelhart, Jeroen; Fidej, Gal; Fuhr, Marc; Garbarino, Matteo; Jansons, Āris; Keren, Srdjan; Kitenberga, Māra; Klopčič, Matija; Konôpka, Bohdan; Kopecký, Martin; Köster, Kajar; Kucbel, Stanislav; Lacombe, Eric; Laurent, Lisa; Leyman, Anja; Lingua, Emanuele; Macek, Martin; Maciejewski, Zbigniew; Malandra, Francesco; Marzano, Raffaella; Metslaid, Marek; Morresi, Donato; Panayotov, Momchil; Pawlak, Bogdan; Pittner, Ján; Šebeň, Vladimír; Socha, Jarosław; Svoboda, Miroslav; Szwagrzyk, Jerzy; Tsvetanov, Nickolay; Urbinati, Carlo; Vallet, Patrick; Van de Kerckhove, Peter; Vandekerkhove, Kris; Vencurik, Jaroslav; Vitali, Alessandro; Vodde, Floortje; Wild, Jan; Nagel, Thomas A.
I: Global Change Biology, Bind 30, Nr. 2, e17159, 2024.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Recovery and resilience of European temperate forests after large and severe disturbances
AU - Cerioni, Matteo
AU - Brabec, Marek
AU - Bače, Radek
AU - Bāders, Endijs
AU - Bončina, Andrej
AU - Brůna, Josef
AU - Chećko, Ewa
AU - Cordonnier, Thomas
AU - de Koning, Johannes H.C.
AU - Diaci, Jurij
AU - Dobrowolska, Dorota
AU - Dountchev, Alexander
AU - Engelhart, Jeroen
AU - Fidej, Gal
AU - Fuhr, Marc
AU - Garbarino, Matteo
AU - Jansons, Āris
AU - Keren, Srdjan
AU - Kitenberga, Māra
AU - Klopčič, Matija
AU - Konôpka, Bohdan
AU - Kopecký, Martin
AU - Köster, Kajar
AU - Kucbel, Stanislav
AU - Lacombe, Eric
AU - Laurent, Lisa
AU - Leyman, Anja
AU - Lingua, Emanuele
AU - Macek, Martin
AU - Maciejewski, Zbigniew
AU - Malandra, Francesco
AU - Marzano, Raffaella
AU - Metslaid, Marek
AU - Morresi, Donato
AU - Panayotov, Momchil
AU - Pawlak, Bogdan
AU - Pittner, Ján
AU - Šebeň, Vladimír
AU - Socha, Jarosław
AU - Svoboda, Miroslav
AU - Szwagrzyk, Jerzy
AU - Tsvetanov, Nickolay
AU - Urbinati, Carlo
AU - Vallet, Patrick
AU - Van de Kerckhove, Peter
AU - Vandekerkhove, Kris
AU - Vencurik, Jaroslav
AU - Vitali, Alessandro
AU - Vodde, Floortje
AU - Wild, Jan
AU - Nagel, Thomas A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Recent observations of tree regeneration failures following large and severe disturbances, particularly under warm and dry conditions, have raised concerns about the resilience of forest ecosystems and their recovery dynamics in the face of climate change. We investigated the recovery of temperate forests in Europe after large and severe disturbance events (i.e., resulting in more than 70% canopy loss in patches larger than 1 ha), with a range of one to five decades since the disturbance occurred. The study included 143 sites of different forest types and management practices that had experienced 28 disturbance events, including windthrow (132 sites), fire (six sites), and bark beetle outbreaks (five sites). We focused on assessing post-disturbance tree density, structure, and composition as key indicators of forest resilience. We compared post-disturbance height-weighted densities with site-specific pre-disturbance densities to qualitatively assess the potential for structural and compositional recovery, overall and for dominant tree species, respectively. Additionally, we analyzed the ecological drivers of post-windthrow tree density, such as forest management, topography, and post-disturbance aridity, using a series of generalized additive models. The descriptive results show that European temperate forests have been resilient to past large and severe disturbances and concurrent climate conditions, albeit with lower resilience to high-severity fire compared with other disturbance agents. Across sites and disturbance agents, the potential for structural recovery was greater than that of compositional recovery, with a large proportion of plots becoming dominated by early-successional species after disturbance. The models showed that increasing elevation and salvage logging negatively affect post-windthrow regeneration, particularly for late-successional species, while pioneer species are negatively affected by increasing summer aridity. These findings provide a key baseline for assessing future recovery and resilience following the recent occurrence of widespread disturbance in the region and in anticipation of future conditions characterized by increasing heat and drought stress.
AB - Recent observations of tree regeneration failures following large and severe disturbances, particularly under warm and dry conditions, have raised concerns about the resilience of forest ecosystems and their recovery dynamics in the face of climate change. We investigated the recovery of temperate forests in Europe after large and severe disturbance events (i.e., resulting in more than 70% canopy loss in patches larger than 1 ha), with a range of one to five decades since the disturbance occurred. The study included 143 sites of different forest types and management practices that had experienced 28 disturbance events, including windthrow (132 sites), fire (six sites), and bark beetle outbreaks (five sites). We focused on assessing post-disturbance tree density, structure, and composition as key indicators of forest resilience. We compared post-disturbance height-weighted densities with site-specific pre-disturbance densities to qualitatively assess the potential for structural and compositional recovery, overall and for dominant tree species, respectively. Additionally, we analyzed the ecological drivers of post-windthrow tree density, such as forest management, topography, and post-disturbance aridity, using a series of generalized additive models. The descriptive results show that European temperate forests have been resilient to past large and severe disturbances and concurrent climate conditions, albeit with lower resilience to high-severity fire compared with other disturbance agents. Across sites and disturbance agents, the potential for structural recovery was greater than that of compositional recovery, with a large proportion of plots becoming dominated by early-successional species after disturbance. The models showed that increasing elevation and salvage logging negatively affect post-windthrow regeneration, particularly for late-successional species, while pioneer species are negatively affected by increasing summer aridity. These findings provide a key baseline for assessing future recovery and resilience following the recent occurrence of widespread disturbance in the region and in anticipation of future conditions characterized by increasing heat and drought stress.
KW - environmental filtering
KW - forest reorganization
KW - ground-based inventories
KW - post-disturbance regeneration
KW - recovery drivers
KW - salvage logging
U2 - 10.1111/gcb.17159
DO - 10.1111/gcb.17159
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85184251684
VL - 30
JO - Global Change Biology
JF - Global Change Biology
SN - 1354-1013
IS - 2
M1 - e17159
ER -
ID: 385034372