A new method for evaluating forest thinning: growth dominance in managed Pinus resinosa stands

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  • John B. Bradford
  • Anthony W. D’Amato
  • Brian J. Palik
  • Shawn Fraver
چکیده

Growth dominance is a relatively new, simple, quantitative metric of within-stand individual tree growth patterns, and is defined as positive when larger trees in the stand display proportionally greater growth than smaller trees, and negative when smaller trees display proportionally greater growth than larger trees. We examined long-term silvicultural experiments in red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) to characterize how stand age, thinning treatments (thinned from above, below, or both), and stocking levels (residual basal area) influence stand-level growth dominance through time. In stands thinned from below or from both above and below, growth dominance was not significantly different from zero at any age or stocking level. Growth dominance in stands thinned from above trended from negative at low stocking levels to positive at high stocking levels and was positive in young stands. Growth dominance in unthinned stands was positive and increased with age. These results suggest that growth dominance provides a useful tool for assessing the efficacy of thinning treatments designed to reduce competition between trees and promote high levels of productivity across a population, particularly among crop trees. Résumé : La dominance de croissance est une mesure quantitative simple et relativement nouvelle du patron de croissance des arbres individuels dans un peuplement. Elle prend une valeur positive lorsque les plus gros arbres d’un peuplement ont une croissance proportionnellement plus élevée que les plus petits arbres alors qu’elle prend une valeur négative lorsque les plus petits arbres ont une croissance proportionnellement plus élevée que les plus gros arbres. Nous avons étudié des expériences sylvicoles à long terme sur le pin rouge (Pinus resinosa Ait.) pour caractériser comment l’âge du peuplement, les traitements d’éclaircie (éclaircies par le bas, par le haut ou par le haut et par le bas) et la densité du peuplement (la surface terrière résiduelle) influencent la dominance de croissance des peuplements en fonction du temps. Dans les peuplements éclaircis par le bas ou par le haut et par le bas, la dominance de croissance n’était pas significativement différente de zéro peu importe l’âge ou la densité du peuplement. La dominance de croissance des peuplements éclaircis par le haut avait tendance à passer de négative à positive lorsque la densité du peuplement passait de faible à forte et était positive dans les jeunes peuplements. La dominance de croissance dans les peuplements non éclaircis était positive et augmentait avec l’âge. Ces résultats indiquent que la dominance de croissance est un outil utile pour évaluer l’efficacité des traitements d’éclaircie visant à réduire la compétition entre les arbres et à obtenir une forte productivité à l’intérieur d’une population, particulièrement dans le cas des arbres d’avenir. [Traduit par la Rédaction]

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تاریخ انتشار 2010