<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Ancient coppice woodlands are coppice-originated forest stands with a long-term continual development, and with the preserved typical natural and historic elements of old sprout forests. Prominent natural elements in the ancient coppice woodlands are namely old coppice stools. There is, in scientific literature, lack of information about features of ancient coppice stools. Therefore, our contribution aims to describe shape and form of ancient coppice stools, including the most important microhabitat of coppice woodlands – dendrothelms. Based on field survey of 20 localities of important coppice woodlands we recorded 135 ancient coppice stools of 13 tree species and a total of 80 dendrothelms in 9 tree species. Basic features of ancient coppice stools and dendrothlems were measured and evaluated.</p></abstract>

Ancient coppice woodlands are coppice-originated forest stands with a long-term continual development, and with the preserved typical natural and historic elements of old sprout forests. Prominent natural elements in the ancient coppice woodlands are namely old coppice stools. There is, in scientific literature, lack of information about features of ancient coppice stools. Therefore, our contribution aims to describe shape and form of ancient coppice stools, including the most important microhabitat of coppice woodlands – dendrothelms. Based on field survey of 20 localities of important coppice woodlands we recorded 135 ancient coppice stools of 13 tree species and a total of 80 dendrothelms in 9 tree species. Basic features of ancient coppice stools and dendrothlems were measured and evaluated.

Tree shape and form in ancient coppice woodlands

Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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Ancient coppice woodlands are coppice-originated forest stands with a long-term continual development, and with the preserved typical natural and historic...

Tree shape and form in ancient coppice woodlands

Published Online: Oct 25, 2017

Page range: 49 - 62

Received: Jan 13, 2017

Accepted: Apr 19, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2017-0004

Keywords
coppice stools, dendrothelm, dendrotelm, stool head, worked tree, tree microhabitat, dendromicrohabitat

© 2017 Petr Maděra et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Tree shape and form in ancient coppice woodlands

Published Online: Oct 25, 2017

Page range: 49 - 62

Received: Jan 13, 2017

Accepted: Apr 19, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2017-0004

Keywordscoppice stools, dendrothelm, dendrotelm, stool head, worked tree, tree microhabitat, dendromicrohabitat

© 2017 Petr Maděra et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
coppice stools, dendrothelm, dendrotelm, stool head, worked tree, tree microhabitat, dendromicrohabitat