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The population development of small trees and shrubs after 100 years of free succession of a wooded meadow in southern Sweden
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- Finndin, Mattias (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Biologi,Tekniska fakulteten,Conservation Ecology Group
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- Milberg, Per (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Biologi,Tekniska fakulteten,Conservation Ecology Group
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- FINNISH SOC FOREST SCIENCE-NATURAL RESOURCES INST FINLAND, 2024
- 2024
- English.
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In: Silva Fennica. - : FINNISH SOC FOREST SCIENCE-NATURAL RESOURCES INST FINLAND. - 0037-5330 .- 2242-4075. ; 58:1
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- Wooded meadows are characterised by traditional -historic human use. Deliberate selection of species, pollarding and haymaking has created a complex and biodiverse habitat where small trees and shrubs were prevalent. This study set out to document what happens to such trees and shrubs during succession to forest, the normal fate when wooded meadows are abandoned but also when other open to semi -open patches revert to forest. The study was conducted at a site in southern Sweden where traditional management was abandoned by 1923 when the area was protected for research and allowed to follow natural succession. The current study is a follow-up of a 1937 -inventory of small trees and shrubs. The results show a decrease in both population size and canopy cover in the selected species during the past 86 years. Hence, we can expect a loss of these species when wooded meadow are abandoned and left to developed into forests. On the other hand, several tree and shrub specimens endured for a century, pointing to the slow changes involved as well as the potential for restoration.
Subject headings
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Lantbruksvetenskap, skogsbruk och fiske -- Skogsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries -- Forest Science (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- conservation; land-use change; nemoral forest; plants; regrowth; wooded grassland
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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