TY - JOUR
T1 - Storm damage and long-term mortality in a semi-natural, temperate deciduous forest
AU - Wolf, Annett
AU - Møller, Peter Friis
AU - Bradshaw, Richard H.W.
AU - Bigler, Jaris
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank all the current and former members of Geobotany and AMOK who have spent time recording vegetation in Draved Forest. We thank H. Turesson for helpful discussions on statistics. Financial support came from GEUS, The Carlsberg Foundation, SJVF through project SPYNATFORS and the Danish Research Academy.
PY - 2004/2/5
Y1 - 2004/2/5
N2 - 1. Wind-damaged trees, following the severe storm of 1999, are compared with data from a 50-year monitoring of Draved Forest, Denmark, to assess differing causes of mortality through time in an unmanaged semi-natural forest. Species-specific mortality characteristics and the changing effects of tree size and growth rate (diameter increment) on mortality through time are also investigated. 2. Storm was found to be the major mortality factor affecting large trees in this forest. For smaller trees, competition was an important cause of death, as trees that were found standing dead had a slower growth rate (diameter increment) than survivors. 3. Individual species showed different mortality patterns. Betula died more often and Fagus less often than expected from their abundance. Betula, Fagus and Tilia were mainly wind-thrown, whereas for Alnus and Fraxinus, 50% of the mortality was observed as standing dead trees. 4. Both wind and competition are important mortality factors in Draved Forest.
AB - 1. Wind-damaged trees, following the severe storm of 1999, are compared with data from a 50-year monitoring of Draved Forest, Denmark, to assess differing causes of mortality through time in an unmanaged semi-natural forest. Species-specific mortality characteristics and the changing effects of tree size and growth rate (diameter increment) on mortality through time are also investigated. 2. Storm was found to be the major mortality factor affecting large trees in this forest. For smaller trees, competition was an important cause of death, as trees that were found standing dead had a slower growth rate (diameter increment) than survivors. 3. Individual species showed different mortality patterns. Betula died more often and Fagus less often than expected from their abundance. Betula, Fagus and Tilia were mainly wind-thrown, whereas for Alnus and Fraxinus, 50% of the mortality was observed as standing dead trees. 4. Both wind and competition are important mortality factors in Draved Forest.
KW - Compositional change
KW - Forest dynamics
KW - Mortality factors
KW - Non-intervention forest
KW - Storm damage
KW - Wind-throw
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0842327989&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.foreco.2003.07.009
DO - 10.1016/j.foreco.2003.07.009
M3 - Article
SN - 0378-1127
VL - 188
SP - 197
EP - 210
JO - Forest Ecology and Management
JF - Forest Ecology and Management
IS - 1-3
ER -