DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.06.058
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84880983398
论文题名: Long-term responses of tree and stand growth of young lodgepole pine to pre-commercial thinning and repeated fertilization
作者: Lindgren P.M.F. ; Sullivan T.P.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2013
卷: 307 起始页码: 155
结束页码: 164
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Fertilization
; Forest management
; Lodgepole pine
; Long-term monitoring
; Pre-commercial thinning
; Stand productivity
Scopus关键词: Fertilization
; Lodgepole pine
; Long term monitoring
; Pre-commercial thinning
; Stand productivities
; Climate change
; Crops
; Greenhouse gases
; Productivity
; Forestry
; biological production
; carbon dioxide
; carbon sequestration
; carbon sink
; climate change
; coniferous tree
; diameter
; emission control
; fertilizer application
; forest management
; greenhouse gas
; growth response
; hypothesis testing
; thinning
; Farm Crops
; Fertilization
; Forest Management
; Forestry
; Greenhouse Gases
; Pinus Contorta
; Productivity
; British Columbia
; Canada
; Kelowna
; Summerland [British Columbia]
英文摘要: This study was designed to test the hypothesis that application of a range of pre-commercial thinning (PCT) intensities and repeated fertilization would enhance 15-year growth increments of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) crop trees at both tree and stand levels. Study areas were located near Summerland and Kelowna in south-central British Columbia, Canada. Each study area had nine treatments: four pairs of stands thinned to densities of ~250 (very low), ~500 (low), ~1000 (medium), and ~2000 (high) stems/ha with one stand of each pair fertilized five times at 2-year intervals, and an unthinned stand. Neither density nor fertilization treatments had any significant effect on 15-year increments of height growth. Mean diameter at breast height (17% increase), basal area (BA) (28% increase), and volume (27% increase) growth increments per tree were significantly enhanced by fertilization, but were not affected by density. Repeated fertilization enhanced both BA (20% increase) and volume (18% increase)/ha at the stand level. Despite the significant decrease in crop tree stand density resulting from PCT, 15-year BA and volume increments were statistically similar across density treatments. Contributions of non-crop trees to total stand productivity appeared to be substantial, particularly within the heavily thinned stands. Because trees provide the majority of all aboveground terrestrial carbon, they are an important sink for atmospheric CO2. Enhancing stand productivity may provide adaptive advantages for carbon sequestration to help limit greenhouse gases as well as resiliency of forests subjected to changing growing conditions due to climate change. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/66389
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作者单位: Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Recommended Citation:
Lindgren P.M.F.,Sullivan T.P.. Long-term responses of tree and stand growth of young lodgepole pine to pre-commercial thinning and repeated fertilization[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2013-01-01,307