Open AccessDeclining of forests - biotic and abiotic stress
Author(s) -
Zlatan Radulović,
Dragan Karadžić,
Ivan Milenković,
Aleksandar Lučić,
Ljubinko Rakonjac,
Zoran Miletić,
Radojica Pizurica
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
glasnik šumarskog fakulteta - univerzitet u beogradu/glasnik šumarskog fakulteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2217-8600
pISSN - 0353-4537
DOI - 10.2298/gsf14s1071r
Subject(s) - abiotic component , biotic component , ecology , bark (sound) , vegetation (pathology) , biology , geography , medicine , pathology
During the last several years, a significant decline of different forests in Serbia was recorded. The decline is more widespread in conifer stands, but occurence of decline was recorded in broadleaved forest stands as well. These declines are the result of abiotic, biotic and anthropogenic factors. According to the studies performed so far in Serbia, the predisposing factor were droughts during the 2012 and 2013 vegetation periods that caused physiological weakness of the trees. Among the biotic factors, the most important are fungi (mainly root rot, but rot fungi, and needle diseases) and insects (bark beetles in conifer species) and defoliators in broadleaved species). [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. TR 37008 i br. TR 31070