Tree-species diversification in Sub-Mediterranean pine forests: drivers, consequences and management options
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2015-09-21Author
Martín Alcón, Santiago
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Universitat de Lleida. Departament de Producció Vegetal i Ciència Forestal
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Martín Alcón, Santiago.
(2015)
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Tree-species diversification in Sub-Mediterranean pine forests: drivers, consequences and management options.
Universitat de Lleida.
L.1441-2015
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http://hdl.handle.net/10803/312149.
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Show full item recordOur results confirm that Sub-Mediterranean pinewoods in the eastern Pyrenees are
currently undergoing a process of spontaneous diversification by broadleaved tree species
(especially evergreen and marcescent oaks). The establishment of Quercus seedlings under the
pine canopy was favored by the current levels of both canopy closure and shrub cover, which in
contrast hampered pine recruitment and the established oaks (particularly Q. ilex) to reach more
advanced developmental stages. We also show that the occurrence of large stand-replacing fires
triggers important vegetation changes from pinewoods to other types of woody vegetation
(shrublands or forests dominated by resprouting tree species). At landscape level, the nature of
these changes does not only depend on fire severity and topographic variables, but also on fire
legacies and the characteristics of the pre-fire vegetation. Finally, our results support the
feasibility of planting or sowing late-successional species for diversifying sub-Mediterranean
pine forests when the process does not occur naturally. In this regard, our findings advise assisted
migration programs to manage risks by thoroughly considering species and provenances
selection, thermal migration distances and the occurrence of extreme cold events in the planting
site. We also show that negative responses associated to these events could be partially buffered
by sowing and planting under relatively closed canopy.
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