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Forest Management Effects on Below-Ground Hydrological Processes

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Abstract

Forests significantly affect their own and adjacent environments. These effects can be modified through management practices that influence tree species composition, structure, texture and the density of forest stands. Resulting changes exert an impact on below-ground hydrological processes in forests ecosystems, e.g. infiltration, redistribution and seepage. The choice of tree species, thinning and tending, application of forest management systems, rotation periods, as well as ditching or burning exert decisive impacts on the most important water transport routes and interfaces, as well as processes and parameters associated with them. They include leaf area index, roughness and albedo of forest canopies, interception and its spatial variability, stemflow, surface humus layer properties, water repellency of soils, desiccation and others. All of them exist in a highly heterogeneous environment that results in non-uniform and unstable flow of water. Finally, the influence of forest management practices on the quality of water (mainly nitrogen content) in forest ecosystems is discussed.

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Acknowledgments

Parts of this work have been funded by the APVV project No. 0468/06, VEGA 1/0723/08 and MVTS related to FP0601.

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  1. Department of Soil Hydrology, Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Racianska 75, 831 02, Bratislava 3, Slovak Republic

    Viliam Novák

  2. Department of Natural Environment, Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 960 53, Zvolen, Slovak Republic

    Viliam Pichler & Marián Homolák

  3. Soil Sciences Unit, Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Elisabeth Graf-Pannatier

  4. Forest Ecosystem Research Group, Department of Environmental Resource Management, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

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  5. Faculty of Forestry, Department of Natural Environment, Technical University Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, Zvolen, 96053, Slovakia

    Viliam Pichler

  6. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, Zürcherstr. 111, Birmensdorf, 8903, Switzerland

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Novák, V., Pichler, V., Graf-Pannatier, E., Farrell, E.P., Homolák, M. (2010). Forest Management Effects on Below-Ground Hydrological Processes. In: Bredemeier, M., Cohen, S., Godbold, D., Lode, E., Pichler, V., Schleppi, P. (eds) Forest Management and the Water Cycle. Ecological Studies, vol 212. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9834-4_16

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