Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2011, 59(1), 29-36 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201159010029

Relationships between browsing damage and the species dominance by the highly food-attractive and less food-attractive trees

Petr Čermák, Pavla Beranová, Jindřiška Orálková, Petr Horsák, Jaroslav Plšek
Ústav ochrany lesů a myslivosti, Mendelova univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno, Česká republika

The paper analyses data on the browsing damage to Acer pseudoplatanus, Carpinus betulus, Fraxinus excelsior, Quercus spp., Tilia cordata and Fagus sylvatica. Field research was carried out in the period 2007-2010 and analysed data came from 33 transects at 10 localities with the various abundance of game in the CR (everywhere Capreolus capreolus, on several plots also Cervus elaphus, Ovis musimon or Dama dama). Trees were monitored up to a height of 150 cm in natural regeneration under stands and in plantations and the occurrence was noted of new browsing damage. Differences between the percentage of damaged individuals of the given species of a food-attractive species (A. p., C. b., F. e.) and the percentage of damaged individuals of all tree species on a transect as well as the proportion of these parameters correlate negatively with the given species dominance and thus, they appear to be suitable parameters for the analysis of relationships between the damage intensity and dominance. The higher the percentage proportions of highly food-attractive species and the lower the percentage of less-attractive species, the lower the relative intensity of damage to highly food-attractive species. At the same time, the higher the percentage proportion of highly food-attractive species and the lower the percentage of less-attractive species then the lower a difference between damage to less food-attractive species and all species.

Keywords: browsing, dominance, highly food-attractive species, less food-attractive species, correlation
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The paper was supported by the MSMT project No. 6215648902 "Forest and Wood".

Received: September 6, 2010; Published: July 10, 2014  Show citation

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Čermák, P., Beranová, P., Orálková, J., Horsák, P., & Plšek, J. (2011). Relationships between browsing damage and the species dominance by the highly food-attractive and less food-attractive trees. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 59(1), 29-36. doi: 10.11118/actaun201159010029
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