THE ROLE OF DEAD WOOD IN A NATURAL TREE REGENERATION
Abstract
Dead wood is an important habitat for numerous organisms in the forest ecosystems. This paper aims at reviewing the mechanism of the colonisation a rooted dead wood (nurse logs) by seedlings.
Microclimatic factor is the results of the tree regeneration on nurse logs. Nurse logs are important in swamps, marches, boreal and alpin coniferous forests. Seedlings colonise better a large sized, well rotted logs than the small in the lower decay classes. Small seeded trees colonise better the nurse logs than the large seeded.
This review explore the tree regeneration abiotic, and species depending parameters by nurse logs, and seedlings, and other biotic parameters. At least represented some nurse logs in the Hungarian forests.
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