Veteran trees and saproxylic insects in the floodplains of Lower Morava and Dyje rivers, Czech Republic

Miklín, Jan; Hauck, David; Konvička, Ondřej; Čížek, Lukáš

doi:10.1080/17445647.2017.1300785

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“…An accumulating number of evidences in Europe shows that large old trees have exceptional ecological values, serving as habitats for a large number of protected species in Europe in open pastures, parklands, forests, orchards and urbanized areas (see e.g. Horak, 2014; Horák and Rébl, 2012; Koch et al, 2012; Lachat et al, 2012; Miklín et al, 2017; Müller et al, 2014; Sebek et al, 2013). As the protected areas in Romania were classically underfunded and suffers from lack of reliable informations regarding the biodiversity based on which management actions can be implemented (Ioja et al, 2010) citizen science types of activities could help in inventorying large old trees (Loos et al, 2015).…”

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Holistic assessment of large old trees: a framework and its application for Romania

Arghiuş

Maloş

Măcicășan

et al. 2020

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Large old trees are keystone ecological structures and have exceptional sociocultural values. Still, holistic approaches to national assessments of large old trees are scarse in the scientific literature. Here we propose and apply a holistic framework to understand the distribution of large old trees, the formal regulations targeting the conservation of large old trees and the ways large old trees are present in the popular news in Romania. There were 4032 large old tree records in Romania most of the records being concentrated in the Central and North-Western part of Romania. The number of tree records decreases with the decreasing terrain accessibility. Almost 50% of the large old tree records are in areas not covered by nature conservation regulations and 2/3 of the terrestrial protected areas have no open access large old tree records, so far. We identified five formal regulations which could be relevant for large old tree conservation in Romania, however, only two of these explicitly targets large old trees. The lack of knowledge and interest, the lack of expertize, institutional capacity, vested interests (corruption) and inconsistencies within the regulations are the major barriers in the formal protection of large old trees. We also identified several opportunities for the local initiatives to protect large old trees, based on the current legislative frameworks. We identified 259 internet news targeting large old trees in Romania which reveals a wide range of values and concerns associated to large old trees at the level of the local communities. While discussing our results we highlight the benefits of a wider adoption of our approach for science, decision making and local initiatives to save large old trees.

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Holistic assessment of large old trees: a framework and its application for Romania

Arghiuş

Maloş

Măcicășan

et al. 2020

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“…We believe that GTR aimed at legacy trees can be a very important conservation tool for the sustainable management of hardwood floodplain forests [43]. We need further evaluation of the effectiveness of GTR in differently managed forest types/biomes in order to address the wider application of biodiversity conservation in sustainable forest management practice.…”

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Retention Forestry Supports Bird Diversity in Managed, Temperate Hardwood Floodplain Forests

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Schlossárek

Pechanec

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The retention forestry approach is considered as one of the potentially effective tools for sustainable forest management for conservation of biodiversity in managed temperate and boreal forests. Retention of old-growth forest structures (e.g., very large old living trees) in forest stands during clear-cutting provides maintenance of key habitats for many old-growth forest interior-species. Most of ecological studies on green tree retention (GTR) consequences for biodiversity have been focused on birds. However, the long-term studies of GTR impacts on forest birds are very poor. In this paper, we focused on assessment of the long-term consequences of leaving legacy oak trees on the cut areas for bird diversity 18–22 years after clear-cutting in managed temperate European hardwood floodplain forests. Results based on bird counting using mapping of bird nesting territories revealed a key importance of legacy oak trees for maintaining bird diversity in the study area. These results are widely applicable for managed temperate hardwood forests with serious dominance of oak (Quercus sp.) in forest stands. Legacy oak trees in this habitat type are keystone structures for bird diversity. Retention approach focused on these trees is potentially an important conservation tool for preserving forest bird diversity and other associated species in temperate hardwood forests managed by clear-cutting.

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“…1). The study area, sampling design and sampling methods are described in detail in Schlaghamerský (2011) and Miklín et al (2017).…”

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Spiders and pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones) in old oaks of a Central European floodplain

Machač

Christophoryová

Krajčovičová

et al. 2018

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Veteran trees and saproxylic insects in the floodplains of Lower Morava and Dyje rivers, Czech Republic

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Holistic assessment of large old trees: a framework and its application for Romania

Holistic assessment of large old trees: a framework and its application for Romania

Retention Forestry Supports Bird Diversity in Managed, Temperate Hardwood Floodplain Forests

Spiders and pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones) in old oaks of a Central European floodplain

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