Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2013, 61(1), 107-113 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201361010107

Changes in forms of available nitrogen and respiration in soil of beech forest as a reaction to a deforestation resulting from wind storm

Aleš Kučera1, Ladislav Holík1, Karel Marosz1, Antonín Martiník2, Dušan Vavříček1
1 Department of Geology and Pedology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
2 Department of Silviculture, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

The article deals with the reaction of soil environment to a violent deforestation resulting from a wind storm. As a material, permanent inventory plot located in Training Forest Enterprise Masaryk Forest Křtiny was selected. The plot represents beech high forest, where soil was sampled from four types of sample plots: (1) maternal forest representing situation before the storm; (2) zone of transition from the maternal forest to the open area; (3) reafforested clearing; (4) natural evolution. From each sample plot type, 6 mixed samples of Ah horizon were analysed to assess N-ammonium (N-NH4+) and N-nitrates (NO3-) content and respiration activity. The results show a significant difference between the respiration activities of the particular sample plots, as well as a significant difference in the content of N-ammonium and N-nitrate forms, the maternal forest representing a site of the lowest biological (and respiration) activity on the one hand, and, on the other hand, site of high N-ammonium and low N-nitrate content, respectively. From the results, intensive nitrification caused by the deforestation is evident. The results are to be used as a starting level for a long-term observation of reaction of the forest beech ecosystem to deforestation and selected types of forest management.

Keywords: European beech, N-ammonium, N-nitrates, nitrogen, wind storm, soil, clearing
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This research was supported by Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. TA02020867 - Use of the new organic mineral stimulators and natural organic materials for revitalization of the forest ecosystems influenced by biotic and abiotic impacts) and KUS (project No. QJ1230330 - Stabilization of forest ecosystems by balanced proportion of natural and artificial reforestation).

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Kučera, A., Holík, L., Marosz, K., Martiník, A., & Vavříček, D. (2013). Changes in forms of available nitrogen and respiration in soil of beech forest as a reaction to a deforestation resulting from wind storm. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 61(1), 107-113. doi: 10.11118/actaun201361010107
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