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Wildfire as an ecological factor in the forests of Central Europe
Adámek, Martin ; Hadincová, Věroslava (advisor) ; Svoboda, Miroslav (referee) ; Nagel, Thomas A (referee)
Within the Northern Hemisphere, wildfires are considered to be an integral part of natural dynamics mainly in boreal forests and Mediterranean ecosystems, and most recently also in temperate forests of Northern America. By contrast, in temperate forests of Central Europe, the importance of wildfire for forest ecosystems has been traditionally marginalised despite documented frequent wildfire occurrence and existence of fire-prone forests. Apparently, the reason of this rooted attitude does not lie in the specific environmental conditions of Central Europe, but more likely in the traditional forest ecology approach, which generally does not consider the effect of disturbances on the shape of vegetation communities and strictly excludes human activity from natural processes since its beginnings. This attitude resulted in the lack of knowledge about local vegetation-wildfire relationship and patterns of wildfire occurrence in the landscape. The general aim of this thesis was to clarify the ecological role of wildfires for Central European forest ecosystems with a focus on Pinus sylvestris forests and using the Czech Republic as a model area for a broader region. Chapter 1 deals with the spatial analysis of the occurrence of forest fires in the Czech Republic. We found that the presence of wildfire in...
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