Types of beech-fir forests on mt. Veliki Jastrebac, Serbia

Abstract

The results of typological studies and typological classification of beech-fir forests on Mt. Veliki Jastrebac, Serbia are presented. From the typological aspect, the forests are quite homogeneous, i.e. there are two types of forests: fir and beech (Abieti-Fagetum moesiacae montanum typicum) on deep acid brown soils on granodiorites; and beech and fir with fescue grass (Abieti-Fagetum moesiacae montanum drymetosum) on medium deep (often skeletal) acid brown soils on granodiorites. By their ecology and potential productivity, these forest types are identical with types at other localities in Serbia, i.e. beech-fir forests in Serbia do not show the regional character which is mostly expressed by the differences in the potential productivity within the same type. Based on the characteristics and elements on which the management and silvicultural measures are defined, the types determined at this locality are two significantly different entities. This fact requires a different approach in practical works in the selection of silvicultural and management measures in the aim of reaching the functional optimum, so their unification is not possible.