Scientific Reports of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Tree stand mortality in nationally important park-monument of landscape art Feofaniya

R. Feschenko, R. Matiashuk, Andrii Bilous
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Abstract

Tree stand mortality in urban ecosystems indicates the influence level of biotic and abiotic factors primarily on their life state. The significance of these processes lies in the knowledge of the forest stands patterns development and their use for forecasting and assessing ecosystem services. The territories of the nature reserve fund have been taken as research sites, as significant indicators of anthropogenically altered territories. The structure of biomass and forest stands species composition was found to be associated with the growth and development of living trees and the formation of dead trees. Biotic and abiotic factors, intraspecific competition and peculiarities of local formation condition and stands growth are determined to affect the life state of the main forest-forming species directly and indirectly. It was revealed that in the medieval oak plantation, the loss of trees during the research period (2016- 2020) prevailed over the increase in the stand ground phytomass. It was found that the carbon deposited amount in the forest stands aboveground phytomass reflects the unusual dynamics for the overwhelming number of territory indicators. The litter formation caused the changes in the deposited carbon structure of the research stands phytomass by tree species. It also led to an increase in the deadwood carbon pool and the onset of carbon emissions from the detritus decomposition

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biomass, phytomass, deposited carbon, forest stands

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Feschenko, R., Matiashuk, R., & Bilous, A. (2021). Tree stand mortality in nationally important park-monument of landscape art Feofaniya. Scientific Reports of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 17(3),114-126. https://doi.org/10.31548/dopovidi2021.03.011
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