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Our results suggest an overall landscape-scale stability (and sustainability) of this coppice forest system. Only in the early stage of forest regeneration after coppicing, species compositional changes are reflected by functional changes with surviving understorey species having clonal regeneration traits.
However, the rate of species turnover and species impoverishment do not significantly differ among the three age classes, indicating their constant importance along the forest regeneration after disturbance. Significant temporal nestedness was found in each stage of succession. In contrast to our expectation, declining species richness appeared only in the recovering stands, while the landscape scale (between-stand) heterogeneity, except for post-logged and recovering stands in 2011, did not change over five years. post-logged, recovering and old coppice stands (0–16, 17–31 and > 32 years, respectively). from 2006 to 2011) in three age classes, i.e. For this purpose, we resampled a chronosequence of complex coppice beech forests of the Central Apennines (Italy) monitoring the short-time species dynamics of five years (i.e. In this context, it is interesting to evaluate the species compositional changes, including the processes of species turnover and species impoverishment (nestedness) and to investigate the role of plant functional traits. While studies on long-term changes are available, the short-term dynamics of the coppice forest understorey has not yet been explored. New insights in the ecological processes that regulate plant diversity are relevant for a sustainable forest management. After decades of decline of this practice, socio-economic changes might induce a revival valuing the biomass as a resource. The silvicultural management of coppicing has been very common in deciduous forests in many European countries.
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