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Tree Species Effects on Soils: Implications for Global Change - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Trees and Soil Interactions, Implications to Global Climate Change, August 2004, Krasnoyarsk, Russia (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Tree Species Effects on Soils: Implications for Global Change - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Trees and Soil Interactions, Implications to Global Climate Change, August 2004, Krasnoyarsk, Russia (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Series: NATO Science Series: IV:, 55
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Almost 50% of the total area of Austria is forested, and the
forests are dominated by commercially valuable stands of Norway
spruce ( (Picea abies). The few remaining forests that resemble the
natural vegetation composition are located in forest reserves with
restricted management. These natural forests are used as reference
systems for evaluating silvicultural research on sustainable forest
management. Natural forests are expected to have high biodiversity,
where the structural richness of the habitat enables complex
relationships between fauna, flora, and microflora. They also
provide refugia for rare plants and animals found only in natural
forest types. Austria had 180 of these forest reserves up to the
year 2003. Most of these forests are privately owned, and owners
are compensated by the government for loss of income associated
with conservation status. The Ministerial Conference for the
Protection of Forest Ecosystems (MCPFE) has launched a world-wide
network of protected forest areas which should cover all major
forest types (MCPFE and UNECE/FAO, 2003). The sites selected for
our investigation of soil conditions and communities were chosen by
vegetation ecologists and soil scientists. The stands have
developed under natural competition conditions with no management
interventions. All sites were well documented with known forest
history. Our set of sites spans gradients of environmental
conditions as well as species composition, providing a realistic
evaluation of the interactions of biotic and abiotic factors.
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