SAMEC, Pavel, Jan CAHA, Miloš ZAPLETAL, Pavel TUČEK, Pavel CUDLÍN and Miloš KUČERA. Discrimination between acute and chronic decline of Central European forests using map algebra of the growth condition and forest biomass fuzzy sets: A case study. Science of the Total Environment. 2017, 599-600, December, p. 899-909. ISSN 0048-9697. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.023.
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Original name Discrimination between acute and chronic decline of Central European forests using map algebra of the growth condition and forest biomass fuzzy sets: A case study
Authors SAMEC, Pavel (203 Czech Republic), Jan CAHA (203 Czech Republic), Miloš ZAPLETAL (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Pavel TUČEK (203 Czech Republic), Pavel CUDLÍN (203 Czech Republic) and Miloš KUČERA (203 Czech Republic).
Edition Science of the Total Environment, 2017, 0048-9697.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW Science of the Total Environment
RIV identification code RIV/47813059:19240/17:A0000199
Organization unit Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.023
UT WoS 000405252000093
Keywords in English abiotic predictors; forest decline; fuzzy modelling; nitrogen deposition; soil carbon
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Forest decline is either caused by damage or else by vulnerability due to unfavourable growth conditions or due to unnatural silvicultural systems. Here, we assess forest decline in the Czech Republic (Central Europe) using fuzzy functions, fuzzy sets and fuzzy rating of ecosystem properties over a 1 x 1 km grid. The model was divided into fuzzy functions of the abiotic predictors of growth conditions (F_pred including temperature, precipitation, acid deposition, soil data and relative site insolation) and forest biomass receptors (F_rec including remote sensing data, density and volume of aboveground biomass, and surface humus chemical data). Fuzzy functions were designed at the limits of unfavourable, undetermined or favourable effects on the forest ecosystem health status. Fuzzy sets were distinguished through similarity in a particular membership of the properties at the limits of the forest status margins. Fuzzy rating was obtained from the least difference of F_pred - F_rec. Unfavourable F_pred within unfavourable F_rec indicated chronic damage, favourable F_pred within unfavourable F_rec indicated acute damage, and unfavourable F_pred within favourable F_rec indicated vulnerability. The model in the 1 x 1 km grid was validated through spatial intersection with a point field of uniform forest stands. Favourable status was characterised by soil base saturation (BS) > 50%, BCC/Al > 1, C_org > 1%, MgO > 6 g/kg, and nitrogen deposition < 1200 mol (H^+)/ha.year. Vulnerable forests had BS_humus 46-60%, BCC/AI 9-20 and NDVI approximate to 0.42. Chronic forest damage occurs in areas with low temperatures, high nitrogen deposition, and low soil BS and C_org levels. In the Czech Republic, 10% of forests were considered non-damaged and 77% vulnerable, with damage considered acute in 7% of forests and chronic in 5%. The fuzzy model used suggests that improvement in forest health will depend on decreasing environmental load and restoration concordance between growth conditions and tree species composition.
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