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The impact of forest management on changes in composition of terricolous lichens in dry acidophilous Scots pine forests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2013

Alica DINGOVÁ KOŠUTHOVÁ ,
Ivana SVITKOVÁ ,
Ivan PIŠÚT ,
Dušan SENKO  and
Milan VALACHOVIČ
Alica DINGOVÁ KOŠUTHOVÁ
Affiliation:
Institute of Botany/Department of Geobotany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, Bratislava, 845 23, Slovakia and Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, Brno, 61137, Czech Republic. Email: alica.dingova@gmail.com
Ivana SVITKOVÁ
Affiliation:
Institute of Botany/Department of Geobotany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, Bratislava, 845 23, Slovakia
Dušan SENKO
Affiliation:
Institute of Botany/Department of Geobotany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, Bratislava, 845 23, Slovakia
Milan VALACHOVIČ
Affiliation:
Institute of Botany/Department of Geobotany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, Bratislava, 845 23, Slovakia
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Abstract

This study focuses on dry acidophilous Scots pine forests, well known for their high biodiversity of cryptogams. We hypothesized that dense forests and heavy management were responsible for changes in species diversity, decreasing trends in lichen cover and increasing moss cover. This hypothesis was tested in three types of Scots pine forests maintained under three different management regimes: 1) managed forests (forest plantations regenerated by planting), 2) semi-natural forests (forest plantations regenerated naturally), both located in the Borská nížina lowland in SW Slovakia, and 3) natural forests (primordial vegetation without visible management actions from the association Cladonio-Pinetum Juraszek 1928), located in the Bory Tucholskie National Park, NW Poland.

We observed that the cover of the canopy tree layer had the most significant influence on the diversity of lichens. Managed forests are planted and maintained to achieve denser tree stocking, and although the environmental conditions created appear optimal for moss species, they are less suitable for terricolous lichens.

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biodiversityCentral EuropeCladonio-Pinetumlichenized fungilichen ecology
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The Lichenologist , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , May 2013 , pp. 413 - 425
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