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Articles by Per Milberg
Category : Research note
article id 23071,
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Research note
(2024).
The population development of small trees and shrubs after 100 years of free succession of a wooded meadow in southern Sweden.
Silva Fennica
vol.
58
no.
1
article id 23071.
https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.23071
Highlights:
Using a unique map of trees and shrubs from 1937, we estimated the mortality of woody species typical of wooded meadows after management ceased in 1923; Both population size and canopy cover of the studied species had decreased during the past 86 years; On the other hand, several tree and shrub specimens endured for a century, pointing to the slow changes involved as well as the potential for restoration.
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Wooded meadows are characterised by traditional-historic human use. Deliberate selection of species, pollarding and haymaking has created a complex and biodiverse habitat where small trees and shrubs were prevalent. This study set out to document what happens to such trees and shrubs during succession to forest, the normal fate when wooded meadows are abandoned but also when other open to semi-open patches revert to forest. The study was conducted at a site in southern Sweden where traditional management was abandoned by 1923 when the area was protected for research and allowed to follow natural succession. The current study is a follow-up of a 1937-inventory of small trees and shrubs. The results show a decrease in both population size and canopy cover in the selected species during the past 86 years. Hence, we can expect a loss of these species when wooded meadow are abandoned and left to developed into forests. On the other hand, several tree and shrub specimens endured for a century, pointing to the slow changes involved as well as the potential for restoration.
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Finndin,
IFM Biology, Conservation Ecology Group, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7620-7104
E-mail:
mattef123@gmail.com
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Milberg,
IFM Biology, Conservation Ecology Group, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6128-1051
E-mail:
permi@ifm.liu.se
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