Claim · model-written summary
The least severe treatments were followed by the fastest recovery in Picea abies forest.
- Taxon
- Picea abies
Picea abiese0 - Treatment
- removal of vegetatione2
- Outcome
- recoverye2
- Direction
- fasteste2
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Verbatim
e0“in an old‐growth Picea abies forest in southeastern Norway”
e2“The least severe treatments (removal of vegetation and removal of vegetation and the litter layer) was followed by the fastest recovery”
Title
Revegetation following experimental disturbance in a boreal old‐growth Picea abies forest
Knut Rydgren; Geir Hestmark; Rune H. Økland Journal of Vegetation Science 1998. doi:10.2307/3237042
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Cover of vascular plants recovered slowly after disturbance.
- Intervention effect Cover of bryophytes and lichens recovered even more slowly after disturbance than vascular plant cover.
- Intervention effect The mean number of vascular plant species was higher three years after disturbance than before.
- Intervention effect The number of bryophyte species showed the opposite pattern, lower three years after disturbance than before.
- Mechanism Vaccinium myrtillus recovered after disturbance primarily by resprouting from intact rhizomes.
- Mechanism Germination from the soil propagule bank was an important recovery mechanism for Luzula pilosa.
- Mechanism Dispersal of propagules into disturbed patches was an important recovery mechanism for Betula pubescens.
- Mechanism Microsite limitation may prevent Gymnocarpium dryopteris from appearing in disturbed patches.
- Association Disturbance severity influenced revegetation patterns.
- Association The length of the successional path increased with increasing disturbance severity.
- Association The length of the successional path was also influenced by the area of the disturbed patch and the distance to intact vegetation.
- Observation The rate of succession decreased year by year in floristic space.
- Observation The rate of succession first decreased and then increased in ordination space.