20.500.12556/RUL-154343 Recovery and resilience of European temperate forests after large and severe disturbances Recent observations of tree regeneration failures following large and severe disturbances, particularly under warm and dry conditions, have raised concerns about the resilience of forest ecosystems and their recovery dynamics in the face of climate change. We investigated the recovery of temperate forests in Europe after large and severe disturbance events (i.e., resulting in more than 70% canopy loss in patches larger than 1 ha), with a range of one to five decades since the disturbance occurred. The study included 143 sites of different forest types and management practices that had experienced 28 disturbance events, including windthrow (132 sites), fire (six sites), and bark beetle outbreaks (five sites). We focused on assessing post-disturbance tree density, structure, and composition as key indicators of forest resilience. We compared post-disturbance height-weighted densities with site-specific pre-disturbance densities to qualitatively assess the potential for structural and compositional recovery, overall and for dominant tree species, respectively. Additionally, we analyzed the ecological drivers of post-windthrow tree density, such as forest management, topography, and post-disturbance aridity, using a series of generalized additive models. The descriptive results show that European temperate forests have been resilient to past large and severe disturbances and concurrent climate conditions, albeit with lower resilience to high-severity fire compared with other disturbance agents. Across sites and disturbance agents, the potential for structural recovery was greater than that of compositional recovery, with a large proportion of plots becoming dominated by early-successional species after disturbance. The models showed that increasing elevation and salvage logging negatively affect post-windthrow regeneration, particularly for late-successional species, while pioneer species are negatively affected by increasing summer aridity. These findings provide a key baseline for assessing future recovery and resilience following the recent occurrence of widespread disturbance in the region and in anticipation of future conditions characterized by increasing heat and drought stress. environmental filtering forest reorganization ground-based inventories post-disturbance regeneration recovery drivers salvage logging okoljsko filtriranje reorganizacija gozdov gozdna inventura obnova po motnjah sanitarna sečnja true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Revija 2024-02-07 13:34:36 2024-02-07 13:34:39 2025-07-03 15:33:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 Str. 1-18 iss. 2, art. e17159 Vol. 30 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2024-01-01 630*23:630*42/43 1365-2486 10.1111/gcb.17159 184142595 RAZ_Cerioni_Matteo_2024.pdf RAZ_Cerioni_Matteo_2024.pdf 1 6A7E29BC4B24F5EB4E35E5EDC7CC5D56 bf1187c66e7eb897de1df267d709e8dea7d1266e905f7563c12749f92fc279d4 641a55e7-c5b5-11ee-8be4-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=180713 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.17159 1 442c04d3-c5b5-11ee-8be4-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=180712 Biotehniška fakulteta 0 0 0