Diversity of Forest and Shrub Communities as a Result of Site History and of Extensive and Intensive Forest Management (Glinno Ługi Case Study)

Beata Woziwoda; Katarzyna Ambrożkiewicz

doi:10.2478/v10107-009-0022-1

Authors

Beata Woziwoda University of Lodz, Department of Geobotany and Plant Ecology
Katarzyna Ambrożkiewicz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/v10107-009-0022-1

Keywords:

land use, abandoned arable fields, afforestation, succession of vegetation, Scots pine, Central Poland

Abstract

The paper presents the diversity of natural and anthropogenic forest communities occurring in post-cultivated fields in Glinno Ługi. An impoverished fresh pine forest association (Leucobryo-Pinetum) and nine secondary forest communities have been distinguished in the transect line (1.16 km in length). Factors influencing the structure and species composition of recent forest communities, such as habitat properties, previous land use forms and the intensity of forest management, are described.

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