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Little is known about the vascular plant flora that grows on dead wood or about the ecological conditions of its development. We focused on montane beech forests in the Sudeten Mts. in southern Poland and chose Fagus sylvatica. The studies were conducted in the years 2003-2006 between 460 and 890 m a.s.l. Among others, the following parameters of dead logs were recorded: the type of forest community, the status of protection (protected vs. managed), altitude, shade, the humidity of the log, the area of the log (m 2 ) and the degree of the decomposition class. In total, 165 dead logs were analyzed. In total, 25 vascular plant species were encountered. Oxalis acetosella, Impatiens parviflora and Calamagrostis arundinacea were the most frequently found. The species composition of the colonized fallen logs differed significantly between the two forest communities in terms of DCA plot scores and also between the managed vs. protected forests. Canonical Constrained Analysis (CCA) revealed that decomposition degree, altitude and shade are significant factors among the five environmental variables that were studied. The study showed that the mean decomposition degree of beech logs as well as the cover of vascular plants overgrowing the logs was higher in the managed forests.

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Colonization patterns of vascular plant species on decaying logs of Fagus sylviatica L. in a lower mountain forest belt: a case study of the Sudeten Mountains (Southern Poland)