Quantitative estimates of historical disturbances are essential to guide forest management aimed at sustainability of ecosystem functions and biodiversity. We quantified past disturbance severity, patch size, and stand proportion disturbed in European primary mountain spruce forests using dendrochronology. We found that continuous gradients from low‐ to high‐severity and small‐ to large‐size disturbance events affected these forests. In addition to the importance of small disturbance events, moderate‐scale and moderate‐severity events were also common and they represented more than 50% of the total disturbed area. Our results provide rigorous baseline data for future ecological research, decisions within biodiversity conservation, and ecological silviculture.
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; Trotsiuk, Volodymyr
; Janda, Pavel; Mikoláš, Martin; Bače, Radek; Nagel, Thomas A; Morrissey, Robert C; Tepley, Alan J
; Vostarek, Ondřej
; Begović, Krešimir; Chaskovskyy, Oleh; Dušátko, Martin; Kameniar, Ondrej; Kozák, Daniel; Lábusová, Jana; Málek, Jakub; Meyer, Peter; Pettit, Joseph L; Schurman, Jonathan S; Svobodová, Kristýna; Synek, Michal; Teodosiu, Marius; Ujházy, Karol; Svoboda, Miroslav