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<p>The very early herbaceous vegetation which established in the clearings following 2018 ‘Vaia’ storm was investigated in some pre-Alpine areas of Northeast Italy, on calcareous as well as acidic substrata. Sixty-two original vegetation-plot records were executed in spruce or mixed beech-silver fir-spruce blowdown forests, within two years after the salvage logging had been completed. According to different origin and degree of soil disturbance, different communities were recognised. <italic>Galeopsis pubescens</italic> and <italic>G. tetrahit</italic> rich stands develop as ephemeral annual associations at the beginning of the regeneration succession where partially decomposed coniferous needles and twigs have accumulated in the litter. Soils with altered profiles due to forestry machineries harbour dominance of perennial herbaceous species (especially <italic>Senecio nemorensis</italic> agg., <italic>Atropa bella-donna</italic>, <italic>Epilobium angustifolium</italic>) which origin as many already recognised associations or vegetation types we ascribed to community level. All coenoses belong to <italic>Epilobietea angustifolii</italic> class, with the exception of <italic>Calamagrostis arundinacea</italic>-rich stands on undisturbed base-rich as well as base-poor soils, whose syntaxonomic positions are unclear.</p>
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The very early herbaceous vegetation which established in the clearings following 2018 ‘Vaia’ storm was investigated in some pre-Alpine areas of Northeast Italy, on calcareous as well as acidic substrata. Sixty-two original vegetation-plot records were executed in spruce or mixed beech-silver fir-spruce blowdown forests, within two years after the salvage logging had been completed. According to different origin and degree of soil disturbance, different communities were recognised. Galeopsis pubescens and G. tetrahit rich stands develop as ephemeral annual associations at the beginning of the regeneration succession where partially decomposed coniferous needles and twigs have accumulated in the litter. Soils with altered profiles due to forestry machineries harbour dominance of perennial herbaceous species (especially Senecio nemorensis agg., Atropa bella-donna, Epilobium angustifolium) which origin as many already recognised associations or vegetation types we ascribed to community level. All coenoses belong to Epilobietea angustifolii class, with the exception of Calamagrostis arundinacea-rich stands on undisturbed base-rich as well as base-poor soils, whose syntaxonomic positions are unclear.

The very early-succession herbaceous vegetation in the ‘Vaia’ windstorm clearings within the Italian southeastern pre-Alpine mountain belt (Veneto and Trentino)

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The very early herbaceous vegetation which established in the clearings following 2018 ‘Vaia’ storm was investigated in some pre-Alpine areas of Northeast...

The very early-succession herbaceous vegetation in the ‘Vaia’ windstorm clearings within the Italian southeastern pre-Alpine mountain belt (Veneto and Trentino)

Published Online: Feb 16, 2024

Page range: 1 - 34

Received: Jun 21, 2022

Accepted: Aug 23, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2023-0003

Keywords
Asiago Plateau, sp. pl., Lagorai Range, phytosociology, vegetation dynamic

© 2023 Stefano Tasinazzo, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The very early-succession herbaceous vegetation in the ‘Vaia’ windstorm clearings within the Italian southeastern pre-Alpine mountain belt (Veneto and Trentino)

Published Online: Feb 16, 2024

Page range: 1 - 34

Received: Jun 21, 2022

Accepted: Aug 23, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2023-0003

KeywordsAsiago Plateau, sp. pl., Lagorai Range, phytosociology, vegetation dynamic

© 2023 Stefano Tasinazzo, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Asiago Plateau, sp. pl., Lagorai Range, phytosociology, vegetation dynamic