Coarse Woody Debris in Primary and Secondary Middle Taiga Spruce Forests. C. 92-106

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10.37482/0536-1036-2024-3-92-106

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Restoration of the pool of coarse woody debris after disturbances is one of the mechanisms for maintaining the stability of forest biogeocenoses. The studies of coarse woody debris have been carried out in the “Vepssky Forest” Reserve in the Leningrad Region on 8 sample plots established in primary forests (4 sample plots) and in secondary forests of the 1st generation after logging in 1973–1974 (4 sample plots), where the composition and structure of the stand, as well as the site conditions have been identical to those in primary forests. The coarse woody debris has been inventoried on transects. The stocks of coarse woody debris in primary stands have ranged from 104 to 233 m3 ha–1. Windfall and leaning trees have prevailed. The proportion of deadwood in both primary and secondary forests has been low. Clear cutting has significantly changed not only the stock of coarse woody debris, but also its distribution by decay classes and substrate categories. The stocks of coarse woody debris in secondary forests have ranged from 8 to 40 m3 ha–1, and have been mainly represented by stumps. The coarse woody debris of the 4th and 5th decay classes has almost been absent in primary forests, while in secondary forests the proportion of highly decomposed wood remaining after cutting has been about 50 %. The ratio of coarse woody debris and growing stocks has been on average 1:1 and 1:5 in the biogeocenoses of primary and secondary forests, respectively. The annual carbon balance of coarse woody debris (the difference in fluxes due to the loss of growing forest and the decay of coarse woody debris) has ranged from 0,40 to 2,80 t C ha–1 year–1, averaging 1,75 and 0,63 t C ha–1 year–1 in secondary and primary forests, respectively. The positive annual carbon balance in the coarse woody debris is due to the predominance of the rate of the loss of growing forest over the rate of the decay of coarse woody debris in primary forests as a result of wind disturbances and as a result of self-thinning of the stand in secondary forests.

Authors

Ekaterina A. Kapitsa^1*, Candidate of Biology, Assoc. Prof.; ResearcherID: U-9939-2017, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6729-482X
Mariya A. Shorokhova¹, Laboratory Assistant; ResearcherID: AEA-6852-2022, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3323-7229
Elizaveta V. Morgun¹, Laboratory Assistant; ResearcherID: CAG-5020-2022, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6745-6868
Aleksandr A. Korepin¹, Postgraduate Student; ResearcherID: ABN-7483-2022, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2543-3542
Ekaterina V. Shorokhova^1,2, Doctor of Biology, Assoc. Prof.; ResearcherID: T-6181-2017, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8238-927X

Affiliation

¹Saint-Petersburg State Forest Technical University named after S.M. Kirov, Institutskiy per., 5, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russian Federation; kapitsa@list.ru*, maria.shorohova99@gmail.com,
lucky.demon@bk.ru, aakorepin@yandex.ru
²Forest Research Institute of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Pushkinskaya, 11, Petrozavodsk, 185910, Russian Federation; shorohova@ES13334.spb.edu

Keywords

old-growth forest, secondary forest, spruce forest, woody detritus, loss of growing forest, wood decay

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Kapitsa E.A., Shorokhova M.A., Morgun E.V., Korepin A.A., Shorokhova E.V. Coarse Woody Debris in Primary and Secondary Middle Taiga Spruce Forests. Lesnoy Zhurnal = Russian Forestry Journal, 2024, no. 3, pp. 92–106. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.37482/0536-1036-2024-3-92-106

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