Dincă Lucian Constantin

Senior researcher I, Director SCDEP Brașov

Research Team Manager (E2)

Areas of interest: forest ecology, climate change

The main objective of the research team is to carry out inter- and multi-disciplinary research on forest ecosystems, covering a wide spectrum of fields, from soil sciences and forest sites to ecology, typology, physiology, biology and biodiversity.

În cadrul echipei de cercetare E2 își desfășoară activitatea 2 Senior researchers I, 3 Senior researchers II, 5 Junior researchers, 3 Researchers.

• Contract 162. MMAP: Study for the development of the 2019-2030 National Strategy on the prevention and combating of desertification and land degradation;

• PN 23090301 “Assessment of the structural, functional and specific diversity of natural and quasi-natural forests for the protection of biodiversity in the context of climate change” within the FORCLIMSOC program;

• PN 19070505 “Health and conservation of monumental trees in Romania under climate change conditions”, within the BIOSERV program.

Books

• Vasile D., Enescu R., Scărlătescu V. 2022. Catalogul arborilor monumentali din România și ghidul pentru managementul arborilor monumentali. Ed. Silvică, pp. 314, ISBN 978-606-8020-89-1.

• Davidescu Ș., Zup M., Enescu R., Vasile D., Mărțoiu N., Miriță M., 2023. Pădurile municipiului Brașov: patrimoniu natural, cultural și istoric. Ed. Silvică, pp. 104, ISBN 978-606-8020-96-9.

Chapters from books

• Eleni M. Abraham, Paschalina Chatzopoulou, Agnes Geirdal, Apostolos P. Kyriazopoulos, Juozas Labokas, Lilja Magnúsdóttir, Marčeta Milica, Keča Ljiljana, Jolita Radusiene, Maria Stoyanova, Nickola Stoyanov, Vasile D. 2020. The NWFPs from Understory Plants in Europe. In Harald Vacik, Mike Hale, Heinrich Spiecker, Davide Pettenella &Margarida Tomé (Eds.) 2020: Non-Wood Forest Products in Europe, Ecologyand management of mushrooms, tree products, understory plants and animal products, Outcomes of the COST Action FP1203 on European NWFPs, BoD, Norderstedt, ISBN: 978-3-7494-7546-9, 414p.

ISI articles

• Lucian DINCĂ, Gabriel MURARIU, Cristian Mihai ENESCU, Florin ACHIM, Lucian GEORGESCU, Adrian MURARIU, Voichița TIMIȘ GÂNSAC, Liviu Holonec, 2020: Productivity differences between southern and northern slopes of Southern Carpathians (Romania) for Norway spruce, silver fir, birch and black alder. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 48(2):1070-1084. ISI magazine, IF=1.168.

• Dinca L., Onet A., Samuel A.D., Tognetti R., Uhl E., Bosela M., Gomoryova E., Bielak K., Skrzyszewski J., Hukic E., Zlatanov T., de-Dios-Garcia J., Tonon G., Giammarchi F., Svoboda M., Dobor L., Rolando L., Rauseo J., Pescatore T., Garbini G.L., Visca A., Patrolecco L., Caracciolo A.B., Grenni P., 2021. Microbial soil biodiversity in beech forests of European mountains. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 51(12): 1833–1845. ISI magazine, IF 1.991. Zona galbena, Forestry, top 25.

• Dincă L.C., Grenni P., Onet C, Onet A, 2022. Fertilization and Soil Microbial Community: A Review. Applied Sciences 12, 1198. Revista ISI, factor de impact 2.679, Zona galbena, Engineering, Multidisciplinary (38).

• Dinca, L.; Marin, M.; Vlad, R.; Murariu, G.; Drasovean, R.; Cretu, R.; Georgescu, L.; Timiș‐Gânsac, V. Which are the Best Site and Stand Conditions for Silver Fir (Abies alba Mill.) Located in the Carpathian Mountains? Diversity 2022, 14, 547. Revista ISI, factor de impact 3.029. Zona galbena.

• Aurelia Onet, Lucian C. Dincă, Paola Grenni, Vasile Laslo, Alin C. Teusdea, Diana L. Vasile, Raluca E. Enescu, Vlad E. Crisan, 2019: Biological indicators for evaluating soil quality improvement in a soil degraded by erosion processes. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 19(5), 2393-2404. ISI magazine, IF2.627. Zona galbena, Soil Science, top 11.

• Radu Vlad, Cristinel Constandache, Lucian Dincă, Nicu Constantin Tudose, Cristian Gheorghe Sidor, Laurenţiu Popovici, Alexandra Ispravnic, 2019: Influence of climatic, site and stand characteristics on some structural parameters of scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) forests situated on degraded lands from east Romania. Range Management and Agroforestry, 40 (1): 40-48. ISI magazine, IF 0.103.

• Buciumeanu E.C., Murariu G., Dincă L., Vizitiu D.E., Georgescu L. P., 2019: The influence of climatic factors on the main phenological phases of grapevines from Stefanesti Viticultural Center, Romania. Romanian Biotechnological Letters, Volume 24, No. 6, pag. 1055-1060. ISI magazine, IF 0.59.

• Oneț Aurelia, Dincă Lucian*, Teușdea Alin, Crișan Vlad, Bragă Cosmin, Raluca Enescu*, Oneț Cristian, 2019: The influence of fires on the biological activity of forest soils in Vrancea, Romania. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 12, pag. 2643-2654. ISI magazine, IF 1.186.

• Petritan, I.C., Mihăilă, V.V., Yuste, J.C., Bouriaud, O. and Petritan, A.M., 2023. Deadwood density, C stocks and their controlling factors in a beech-silver fir mixed virgin European forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 539, p.121007. (Q1)

• Leuschner, C., Hohnwald, S., Petriţan, A.M. and Walentowski, H., 2023. Vertical temperature and air humidity gradients in beech and oak forests, and the forest interior climate created by beech. Flora, p.152317. (Q2)

• Braga, C.I., Crisan, V.E., Petritan, I.C., Scarlatescu, V., Vasile, D., Lazar, G. and Petritan, A.M., 2023. Short-Term Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbances on Stand Structure, Soil Properties, and Vegetation Diversity in a Former Virgin Mixed Forest. Forests, 14(4), p.742.

• Tudose, N.C., Petritan, I.C., Toiu, F.L., Petritan, A.M. and Marin, M., 2023. Relation between Topography and Gap Characteristics in a Mixed Sessile Oak–Beech Old-Growth Forest. Forests, 14(2), p.188. (Q1)

• Kasper, J., Weigel, R., Walentowski, H., Gröning, A., Petritan, A.M. and Leuschner, C., 2021. Climate warming-induced replacement of mesic beech by thermophilic oak forests will reduce the carbon storage potential in aboveground biomass and soil. Annals of Forest Science, 78, pp.1-34. (Q1)

• Hereş, A.M., Polanco-Martínez, J.M., Petritan, I.C., Petritan, A.M. and Yuste, J.C., 2022. The stationary and non-stationary character of the silver fir, black pine and Scots pine tree-growth-climate relationships. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 325, p.109146. (Q1)

• Dorado-Liñán, I., Ayarzagüena, B., Babst, F., Xu, G., Gil, L., Battipaglia, G., Buras, A., Čada, V., Camarero, J.J., Cavin, L, …Petritan AM., … and Claessens, H., 2022. Jet stream position explains regional anomalies in European beech forest productivity and tree growth. Nature communications, 13(1), pp.1-10. (Q1)

• 16. Martinez del Castillo, E., Zang, C.S., Buras, A., Hacket-Pain, A., Esper, J., Serrano-Notivoli, R., Hartl, C., Weigel, R., Klesse, S., …Petritan AM, …, Resco de Dios, V. and Scharnweber, T., 2022. Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests. Communications biology, 5(1), pp.1-9. (Q1)

• Kasper, J., Leuschner, C., Walentowski, H., Petritan, A.M. and Weigel, R., 2022. Winners and losers of climate warming: Declining growth in Fagus and Tilia vs. stable growth in three Quercus species in the natural beech–oak forest ecotone (western Romania). Forest Ecology and Management, 506, p.119892. (Q1)

• Annighöfer, P., Mund, M., Seidel, D., Ammer, C., Ameztegui, A., Balandier, P., Bebre, I., Coll, L., Collet, C., Hamm, T. and Huth, F., …Petritan AM, 2022. Examination of aboveground attributes to predict belowground biomass of young trees. Forest Ecology and Management, 505, p.119942. (Q1)

• Kasper, J., Weigel, R., Walentowski, H., Gröning, A., Petritan, A.M. and Leuschner, C., 2021. Climate warming-induced replacement of mesic beech by thermophilic oak forests will reduce the carbon storage potential in aboveground biomass and soil. Annals of Forest Science, 78(4), pp.1-34. (Q1)

• Budeanu, M., Apostol, E.N., Besliu, E., Crișan, V.E. and Petritan, A.M., 2021. Phenotypic Variability and Differences in the Drought Response of Norway Spruce Pendula and Pyramidalis Half-Sib Families. Forests, 12(7), p.947. (Q1)

• Hereș, A.M., Bragă, C., Petritan, A.M., Petritan, I.C. and Curiel Yuste, J., 2021. Spatial variability of soil respiration (Rs) and its controls are subjected to strong seasonality in an even‐aged European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) stand. European Journal of Soil Science, 72(5), pp.1988-2005. (Q2)

• Petritan, A.M., Petritan, I.C., Hevia, A., Walentowski, H., Bouriaud, O. and Sánchez-Salguero, R., 2021. Climate warming predispose sessile oak forests to drought-induced tree mortality regardless of management legacies. Forest Ecology and Management, 491, p.119097. (Q1)

• Hai, N.H., Erfanifard, Y., Bui, V.B., Mai, T.H., Petritan, A.M. and Petritan, I.C., 2021. Topographic effects on the spatial species associations in diverse heterogeneous tropical evergreen forests. Sustainability, 13(5), p.2468. (Q2)

• Öder, V., Petritan, A.M., Schellenberg, J., Bergmeier, E. and Walentowski, H., 2021. Patterns and drivers of deadwood quantity and variation in mid-latitude deciduous forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 487, p.118977. (Q1)

• Hereş, A.M., Petritan, I.C., Bigler, C., Curtu, A.L., Petrea, Ş., Petritan, A.M., Polanco-Martínez, J.M., Rigling, A. and Yuste, J.C., 2021. Legacies of past forest management determine current responses to severe drought events of conifer species in the Romanian Carpathians. Science of The Total Environment, 751, p.141851. (Q1)

• Hai, N.H., Tan, N.T., Bao, T.Q., Petritan, A.M., Mai, T.H., Hien, C.T.T., Anh, P.T., Hung, V.T. and Petritan, I.C., 2020. Changes in community composition of tropical evergreen forests during succession in Ta Dung National Park, Central Highlands of Vietnam. Forests,

BDI articles

• Vasile D., Scărlătescu V., Enescu R., Crișan V., Vechiu E. 2019. The monumental trees from the forest habitats and non forest habitats from the central part of Romania. 19th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference SGEM 2019. Conference proceedings, Volume 19, Water resources. Forest, Marine and Ocean ecosystems, Issue 3.2. Soils, Forest Ecosystems. pag. 775-782. ISBN: 978-619-7408-82-9, ISSN: 1314-2704.

• Vasile D., Enescu R., Vechiu E., Crișan V., Scărlătescu V. 2020.The monumental yew trees from Romania country. 20th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference SGEM 2020. Conference proceedings. Water Resources. Forest, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems, Issue 3.1. Forest Ecosystem. pag. 749-756. ISBN: 978-619-7603-08-8, ISSN: 1314-2704

• Vasile D., Enescu R., Vechiu E., Coman S., Scărlătescu V.2020. The inventory of the monumental trees from Brașov county. Revista de Silvicultură și Cinegetică nr.46, pp.70-76.

• Vasile D., Enescu R., Scărlătescu V., Vechiu E., Crișan V. 2020. Specimens of Sequoiadenderom giganteum from Romania. Revista de Silvicultură și Cinegetică nr.47, pp72-76.

• Diana Vasile, Raluca Enescu, Emilia Vechiu, Gruiță Ienășoiu, Cristian Cătălin, Șerban Davidescu, Mihai Zup, Dan Olteanu.2021. Evaluarea și monitorizarea biodiversității la nivelul păturii erbacee în pădurile administrate de RPLP Kronstadt. Revista de Silvicultură și Cinegetică nr.48, pp-.

• Virgil Scărlătescu, Diana Vasile.2021. Răspândirea aninului alb Alnus incana L. în bazinul hidrografic al râului Argeș. Revista de Silvicultură și Cinegetică nr.48, pp-.

• Enescu R. , Vasile D., Dincă L. 2021. Species of Alnus Genus from the curvature Carpathians. International Journal of Advance and Innovative Research. Volume 8, Issue 4 (V): 288-292.ISSN: 2394 – 7780.

• Enescu R., Vasile D., Dincă L., 2021. Species of the genus Crepis genus collected in “Al. Beldie” herbarium. Analele Universității din Craiova, seria Biologie, Horticultură, Tehnologia Prelucrării Produselor Agricole, Ingineria Mediului 26(62): 239-244.

• Enescu R., Vasile D., Dincă L., 2021. Old forests from Apuseni Mountains. Analele Universității din Craiova, seria Biologie, Horticultură, Tehnologia Prelucrării Produselor Agricole, Ingineria Mediului, 26(62): 233-238.

• Vasile D., Enescu R., Dincă M., 2021. Crataegus genus: preserved plants. Analele Universităţii din Craiova, seria Agricultură – Montanologie – Cadastru, Vol. 51(2), pag. 120-127.

• Vasile D., Enescu R., Dincă L., 2021. Characteristics of field maple stands from the Moldavian Plain (Romania). Analele Universităţii din Craiova, seria Agricultură – Montanologie – Cadastru, Vol. 51(2), pag. 128-135.

• Murariu G., Enescu R., Vasile D., Dinca L., Mocanu G. D., Munteanu D.2021. A Study regarding the parameters that influence the growth rate of Salix alba. Romanian Journal of Ecology & Environmental Chemistry, 3(2), p78-88.

• Vasile D., Enescu R., Scărlătescu V., Dumitru-Dobre C. 2021. Inventory of the monumental sweetchestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) din România. Revista de Silvicultură și Cinegetică nr.49, pp.85.

• Vasile D., Enescu R., Scărlătescu V., Dumitru – Dobre C.2022.Oaks with special shapes from Romania. ProEnvironment 15/49: 1–8.

• R. Enescu, L. Dincă, Vasile D. 2022. The main non-timber forest products from Alba county. Current Trends in Natural Sciences Vol. 11, Issue 21, pp. 365-371.

• Vasile D., Lucian Dincă, Raluca Enescu. 2022. A survey of preserved specimens of the genus Festuca L. (Poaceae) in Romania.Current Trends in Natural Sciences,Vol. 11, Issue 21, pp. 533-539.

• Vasile D., Simona Coman, Aurora Coca, Raluca Enescu, Virgil Scărlătescu.2022. Exemplare monumentale de Ginkgo biloba de pe teritoriul României. Revista de Silvicultură și Cinegetică nr.50, pp. 97-102.