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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-049-8-0197

POMŮŽE SI PŘÍRODA PO POŽÁRU V ČESKÉM ŠVÝCARSKU SAMA? / DOES NATURE HELP ITSELF FOLLOWING WILD-FIRE IN BOHEMIAN SWITZERLAND?

František Šach1, Dušan Kacálek1, Jan Leugner1
1 Výzkumný ústav lesního hospodářství a myslivosti, v. v. i., Strnady, Výzkumná stanice Opočno, Na Olivě 550, 517 73 Opočno

Fire had been always a natural component of forest dynamics before forest-protective measures were applied. However, in human-colonized landscapes, wildfires are also reasonably considered a threat. One of the important causes of wildfire in the Czech Switzerland National Park was a dominance of flammable tree species – spruce and pine. Besides its immediate effects on the forest, the other fire impacts are a burned topsoil and its increased vulnerability to be eroded by water. However, the forest vegetation has been restored in the post-fire conditions. The burned-soil properties and species compositions of herbal layer were tree-species specific. It will be convenient to accompany naturally seeded pioneer species, such as particularly birch at present, via planting of late-successional trees. A lesson drawn from the event – to be aware of no-management approaches enforced within densely inhabited landscapes.

Keywords: burned forest, growing conditions, succession, management

pages: 197-201, Published: 2025, online: 2025



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