Understory succession in post-agricultural oak forests: Habitat fragmentation affects forest specialists and generalists differently

Abstract

For successful recovery of a rich understory, we suggest that post-arable plantations should be established on loamy soils of intermediate to high pH proximate to older forest with source populations, and that a continuous overstory canopy cover of 70-80% is maintained by regular light thinnings and promotion of a shrub layer. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Ancient woodland plants; Chronosequence; Dispersal limitation; Herbaceous layer; Quercus robur; Temperate broadleaved forest

Published in

Forest Ecology and Management
2011, volume: 262, number: 9, pages: 1863-1871
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

SLU Authors

• Brunet, Jörg

  • Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Felton, Adam

  • Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Lindbladh, Matts

  • Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Environmental Sciences and Nature Conservation
Forest Science

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2011.08.007

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/57221