Effects of forest management and roe deer impact on a mountain forest development in the Italian Apennines: A modelling approach using LANDIS-II

Autor: Andrea Marcon, Marco Apollonio, Stefano Grignolio, David J. Mladenoff
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Ecological Parameter Monitoring
Invasive Species
Forests
01 natural sciences
Trees
Mammals
white tailed deer
Multidisciplinary
Forest dynamics
biology
Ecology
Agroforestry
Eukaryota
Forestry
ungulate erbovory
Ruminants
landscape simulation model
climate change
white tailed deer
ungulate erbovory
vegetation
Plants
Terrestrial Environments
Environmental Policy
Roe deer
Conifers
Geography
Italy
Vertebrates
Medicine
Research Article
Ungulate
Forest Ecology
Ecological Metrics
Climate Change
Science
Forest management
landscape simulation model
010603 evolutionary biology
Ecosystems
Species Colonization
vegetation
biology.animal
Forest ecology
Animals
Computer Simulation
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Models
Statistical
Plant Dispersal
Deer
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Organisms
Ambientale
Species diversity
Biology and Life Sciences
Species Diversity
biology.organism_classification
Disturbance (ecology)
Amniotes
Species richness
Pines
Animal Distribution
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 11, p e0224788 (2019)
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Forest development is a complex phenomenon which, for the number of actors involved and the response time expressed by forests, is difficult to understand and explore. Forests in Italy, as in several areas of Europe, are experiencing intensive management and recently, an increasing impact by ungulates. The effects on forest development of these two disturbances combined are difficult to predict, and consequently to be properly managed. We used a forest landscape change model, LANDIS-II, to simulate forest development as driven by forestry practices and roe deer impact for 200 years in a mountain forest of the Italian Apennines. We found that each disturbance alters forest tree species richness, forest type abundance and distribution, and forest structure. When considered combined, the two disturbances show additive behavior, enhancing or moderating each other’s effects. Forest management has a negative effect on tree species richness. We expected roe deer to have a negative effect on harvest yields, but this result was significant only for two of seven harvesting treatments. On the other hand, roe deer presence had a positive effect on tree species richness. All the simulation scenarios returned some extent of forest loss. The amount of the forest loss is lowest in the scenario without disturbances, and greatest when both disturbances are considered. However, the two disturbances combined, with the magnitude modelled in our simulations, have relatively low effects on the forest dynamics we analyzed in our study area. LANDIS-II was an effective approach for simulating combined management and ungulate driven trends of forest development, and to help understand the dynamics that lay behind it.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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