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Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests

Francesco Chianucci, Francesca Napoleone, Carlo Ricotta, Carlotta Ferrara, Lina Fusaro, Lorenzo Balducci, Giovanni Trentanovi, Owen Bradley, Bence Kovacs, Marco Mina, et al.
(2024) JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY. 61(10). p.2350-2364
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Managing forests to sustain their diversity and functioning is a major challenge in a changing world. Despite the key role of understory vegetation in driving forest biodiversity, regeneration and functioning, few studies address the functional dimensions of understory vegetation response to silvicultural management. We assessed the influence of the silvicultural regimes on the functional diversity and redundancy of European forest understory. We gathered vascular plant abundance data from more than 2000 plots in European forests, each associated with one out of the five most widespread silvicultural regimes. We used generalized linear mixed models to assess the effect of different silvicultural regimes on understory functional diversity (Rao's quadratic entropy) and functional redundancy, while accounting for climate and soil conditions, and explored the reciprocal relationship between three diversity components (functional diversity, redundancy and dominance) across silvicultural regimes through a ternary diversity diagram. Intensive silvicultural regimes are associated with a decrease in functional diversity and an increase in functional redundancy, compared with unmanaged conditions. This means that although intensive management may buffer communities' functions against species or functional losses, it also limits the range of understory response to environmental changes. Policy implications. Different silvicultural regimes influence different facets of understory functional features. While unmanaged forests can be used as a reference to design silvicultural practices in compliance with biodiversity conservation targets, different silvicultural options should be balanced at landscape scale to sustain the multiple forest functions that human societies are increasingly demanding. Different silvicultural regimes influence different facets of understory functional features. While unmanaged forests can be used as a reference to design silvicultural practices in compliance with biodiversity conservation targets, different silvicultural options should be balanced at landscape scale to sustain the multiple forest functions that human societies are increasingly demanding.image
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ecosystem resilience, forest understory, functional diversity, functional redundancy, silvicultural regime, sustainable forest management, unmanaged forests, SPECIES-DIVERSITY, QUADRATIC ENTROPY, PLANT-COMMUNITIES, MANAGEMENT, TRAITS, BIODIVERSITY, VEGETATION, DISTURBANCE, RESPONSES, RICHNESS

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Chianucci, Francesco, et al. “Silvicultural Regime Shapes Understory Functional Structure in European Forests.” JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, vol. 61, no. 10, 2024, pp. 2350–64, doi:10.1111/1365-2664.14740.
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Chianucci, F., Napoleone, F., Ricotta, C., Ferrara, C., Fusaro, L., Balducci, L., … Burrascano, S. (2024). Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, 61(10), 2350–2364. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14740
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Chianucci, Francesco, Francesca Napoleone, Carlo Ricotta, Carlotta Ferrara, Lina Fusaro, Lorenzo Balducci, Giovanni Trentanovi, et al. 2024. “Silvicultural Regime Shapes Understory Functional Structure in European Forests.” JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 61 (10): 2350–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14740.
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Chianucci, Francesco, Francesca Napoleone, Carlo Ricotta, Carlotta Ferrara, Lina Fusaro, Lorenzo Balducci, Giovanni Trentanovi, Owen Bradley, Bence Kovacs, Marco Mina, Bruno E. L. Cerabolini, Kris Vandekerkhove, Pallieter De Smedt, Luc Lens, Lionel Hertzog, Kris Verheyen, Jeňýk Hofmeister, Jan Hošek, Radim Matula, Inken Doerfler, Jörg Müller, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Jan Helbach, Peter Schall, Markus Fischer, Jacob Heilmann‐Clausen, Rasmus Riis‐Hansen, Irina Goldberg, Erik Aude, Sebastian Kepfer‐Rojas, Inger Kappel Schmidt, Torben Riis Nielsen, Anders Mårell, Yann Dumas, Philippe Janssen, Yoan Paillet, Frederic Archaux, Fotios Xystrakis, Flóra Tinya, Péter Ódor, Réka Aszalós, János Bölöni, Andrea Cutini, Simonetta Bagella, Tommaso Sitzia, Gediminas Brazaitis, Vitas Marozas, Mariana Ujházyová, Karol Ujházy, František Máliš, Björn Nordén, and Sabina Burrascano. 2024. “Silvicultural Regime Shapes Understory Functional Structure in European Forests.” JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 61 (10): 2350–2364. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.14740.
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Chianucci F, Napoleone F, Ricotta C, Ferrara C, Fusaro L, Balducci L, et al. Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY. 2024;61(10):2350–64.
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F. Chianucci et al., “Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests,” JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 2350–2364, 2024.
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  volume       = {{61}},
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