Pre-disturbance tree size, sprouting vigour and competition drive the survival and growth of resprouting trees

Matula, Radim; Šrámek, Martin; Kvasnica, Jakub; Uherková, Barbora; Slepička, Jaroslav; Matoušková, Marie; Kutchartt, E.; Svátek, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2019.05.012

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“…Drought impact was greater on the largest trees (Grote et al, 2016). The resprouting capacity of defoliated trees is higher in trees with high DBH (Matula et al, 2019), but it declines with age (Clarke et al, 2013). According to Crouchet et al (2019), the impact of the drought is higher on the dense stands and affects the less competitive trees, including smaller and older plants.…”

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Widespread Crown Defoliation After a Drought and Heat Wave in the Forests of Tuscany (Central Italy) and Their Recovery—A Case Study From Summer 2017

Pollastrini

Puletti²,

Selvi

et al. 2019

Front. For. Glob. Change

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An anomalous event of drought and heat occurred in central Italy during the summer of 2017. Based on the SPI (Standardized Precipitation Index) and data from the European Space Agency, this event started in November 2016 and was characterized by a strong reduction of precipitation and soil moisture, especially in lowland areas with Mediterranean climate. The aim of this case report were to describe the impact of this event on representative forest communities in central Italy, to analyze the different responses of deciduous and evergreen tree and shrub species in contrasting environmental conditions and to assess their subsequent capacity of recovery or, if not, mortality. Trees suffered severe impacts consisting of widespread crown defoliation, leaf desiccation, crown dieback and whole tree mortality. Deciduous tree species (Fagus sylvatica, Quercus pubescens, Quercus cerris) shed their leaves during the summer, but apical buds and twigs were preserved. This allowed these species to produce new shoots in the following year (2018) and to restore the canopy closure of the stands. Mediterranean evergreen broadleaves, such as Quercus ilex and Phillyrea latifolia suffered of total or partial crown desiccation with wilting leaves and branch dieback. These species partially resprouted in 2018 from axillary and latent buds. The case presented here is discussed within the wider context of the impacts of climate change on Mediterranean forests. Future research directions should include an effective forest monitoring system that combines terrestrial and remote sensing surveys, ad hoc field climate change experiments and silvicultural trials from the perspective of proactive management for the adaptation of forests to future climatic conditions.

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Widespread Crown Defoliation After a Drought and Heat Wave in the Forests of Tuscany (Central Italy) and Their Recovery—A Case Study From Summer 2017

Pollastrini

Puletti²,

Selvi

et al. 2019

Front. For. Glob. Change

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“…The pattern of diversity dynamics observed in our study agrees with Strubelt et al 29 , who also found a diversity increase followed by a diversity decrease within a short period of time after logging in coppiced forests. Although they did not relate these diversity dynamics to woody layer development, sprouts dominate woody plant regeneration in coppices 45 and the similar diversity dynamics they observed were probably also driven by sprout development. Belote et al 11 compared understory vegetation shortly after logging to 9 years after logging in temperate forests in the USA and found that the number of non-native species decreased with time after logging whereas the number of native species did not change.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…Thus, in forests dominated by species with good resprouting ability, in which resprouting failure is very rare (e.g. Tilia cordata and Carpinus betulus in our plot 45 ), the canopy formed by sprouts is likely to be more closed, thus causing more significant understory diversity declines. These adverse effects of sprouts may therefore potentially hamper certain conservation goals of coppice restoration projects and some other measures would be needed to maintain higher understory diversity in the long-term.…”

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“…The long-term objective of the Hády experimental plot is to restore traditional coppice and coppice with standard management, which was applied in the study forest in the past (until 1902) 50 . Since the high forest was www.nature.com/scientificreports www.nature.com/scientificreports/ planted in 1902, this forest has only been subject to one major treatment which consisted of commercial logging of the high forest in 2008/9, and no other intervention or treatment after that 45 . The original forest (before logging in 2008/2009) was approximately 103 years old with an average total basal area (BA) of 33.2 m 2 ha −1 and a density of 689 trees/ha.…”

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Resprouting trees drive understory vegetation dynamics following logging in a temperate forest

Matula

Řepka

Šebesta

et al. 2020

Sci Rep

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Removal of canopy trees by logging causes shifts in herbaceous diversity and increases invasibility of the forest understory. However, disturbed (cut) trees of many species do not die but resprout from remaining parts. Because sprouts develop vigorously immediately after disturbances, we hypothesized that sprouts of logged trees offset the changes in species richness and invasibility of the herbaceous layer by eliminating the rise in the resource availability during the time before regeneration from seeds develops. To test this, we analyzed data on herbaceous vegetation and sprout biomass collected in a broadleaved temperate forest in the Czech Republic before and for 6 years after logging. Sprouts that were produced by most of the stumps of logged trees offset large rises in species richness and cover of herbaceous plants and the resource availability that followed logging, but they affected the alien plants more significantly than the native plants. The sprouting canopy effectually eliminated most of the alien species that colonized the forest following a logging event. These findings indicate that in forests dominated by tree species with resprouting ability, sprouts drive the early post-disturbance dynamics of the herbaceous layer. By offsetting the post-disturbance vegetation shifts, resprouting supports forest resilience.

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“…In one study, stump diameter and height positively influenced the sprout number and sprout height of Quercus variabilis during the first year, and the effect vanished in the second and third years [14]. Effects of parent size and neighborhood density on resprouting and the effects on stump survival and sprout growth after logging were recently explored in detail in a paper by Matula et al [16]. Several studies of birch have revealed positive relationships between stump diameter and stump survival and sprout growth [17,18].…”

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Sprout Regeneration of Shrub Willows after Cutting

Zou

Yang

2020

Plants

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Shrub willow (Salix L. spp.) is a promising bioenergy resource crop due to its high growth rates and superb regenerative ability. Sprouting capacity is influenced by many factors, such as parent tree species and size, which are important limiting factors for stump survival or sprout growth. In this study, we aimed to quantify the survival and regeneration performance of sprouts (including sprout height, sprout diameter, sprout number, leaf morphological traits, leaf chlorophyll content, and ground part dry biomass) from the stumps of two Salix species from three diameter classes (10–15, 16–19, and 20–30 mm). An attempt was made to explore why the stump size affects the regeneration of willows by analyzing the carbon and nitrogen proportion of stumps. Stump survival did not differ between the two Salix species. However, the sprout regeneration of S. triandra was much better than that of S. suchowensis. An increase in stump diameter caused increases in the number of sprouts produced per stump, the mean height and basal diameter of sprouts per stump, the leaf chlorophyll content, and the biomass of sprouts per stump. By contrast, stump diameter did not significantly affect stump survival. The results indicate that the larger stumps store more carbon and nitrogen than small-sized stumps, which may be one of the reasons why the larger willow stumps have a stronger resprouting ability. This study provides essential information regarding the sprout regeneration of short-rotation coppice willow plantations after harvest.

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Pre-disturbance tree size, sprouting vigour and competition drive the survival and growth of resprouting trees

Cited by 27 publications

References 57 publications

Widespread Crown Defoliation After a Drought and Heat Wave in the Forests of Tuscany (Central Italy) and Their Recovery—A Case Study From Summer 2017

Widespread Crown Defoliation After a Drought and Heat Wave in the Forests of Tuscany (Central Italy) and Their Recovery—A Case Study From Summer 2017

Resprouting trees drive understory vegetation dynamics following logging in a temperate forest

Sprout Regeneration of Shrub Willows after Cutting

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