Floristic composition of oak forests and oriental hornbeam scrubs on mt. Vidlič in the first three years after a wildfire
2018
Rakonjac, Ljubinko | Marković, Marija | Nikolić, Biljana | Lučić, Aleksandar | Ratknić, Tatjana
After a catastrophic wildfire on Vidlič Mountain in 2007, which among other things burned oak forests and hornbeam scrubs, their floristic composition was monitored for three years. Phytosociological surveys were carried out in the field using the Braun-Blanquet method, and the results are presented in the form of a synthetic phytosociological table. It was observed that in the stands in which the vegetation was only partially damaged, a shorter recovery time was required to return to the previous state - as it was before the wildfire. The initial stages of vegetation recovery at sites where complete destruction of vegetation occurred were characterized by a strong presence of annual therophytes: Orlaya grandiflora, Sideritis montana, Geranium dissectum, Althaea hirstuta. The first year after the wildfire was characterized by the dominance of annual species of Bupleurum praealtum, Crepis setosa and Centaurea calcitrap, which were not recorded in the monitored stands in the second and third year after the wildfire. In the second and third year after the wildfire, perennial plants and various grass species assumed dominance. It is necessary to conduct further systematic and continuous monitoring of the floristic composition and structure of the oak forests that completely burned in the wildfire, as well as an analysis of the profitability of the restitution of oak forests damaged by forest fires in Serbia.
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