Traditional forest management practices stop forest succession and bring back rare plant species

Past management practices may continue to influence ecosystem functions and processes for decades, centuries or even longer after they have been abandoned. Until now, few researchers have attempted experiments which test the effects of restoring some of these past management practices on long-term community developmental trajectories. Strong evidence indicates that the diversity of various taxonomic groups declined in European lowland forests in the second half of the 20th century, following the abandonment of some traditional forest management practices. We carried out a five-year field trial in a lowland thermophilous oak forest to describe the effects of restoration of litter raking and grass cutting on the long-term developmental trajectory of species composition and the diversity of understorey vegetation. We used target species groups, i.e. species specific to thermophilous forests and dry grassland vegetation and plant functional traits to evaluate the restoration success usin...过往的经营措施在被废弃数十年、数百年甚至更久后，仍可能持续影响生态系统的功能与过程。迄今为止，鲜有研究者开展实验，探究恢复部分此类过往经营措施对群落长期发育轨迹的影响。 大量研究证据表明，20世纪下半叶，随着部分传统森林经营措施的废弃，欧洲低地森林内各类分类群的多样性均出现下降。本研究在一处低地适温性栎林中开展了为期五年的野外试验，以明确恢复枯落物捡拾与割草措施对物种组成及林下植被多样性的长期发育轨迹的影响。本研究采用目标物种类群（即适温性森林与旱生草原特有物种）及植物功能性状，以评估该恢复措施的实施成效，（原文后续内容未完整提供）