Growth and productivity of trees in forest crops of Norway spruce in Smolensk-Moscow Upland

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The issues of diagnosing tree growth in a plantation are of a significant scientific and practical interest. The purpose of the research was to substantiate the use of the indicator “tree height at 10 years of age” to diagnose their subsequent growth and productivity in Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.) forest crops. 70-year-old spruce monocultures were chosen as objects for the study. Model trees were chosen on trial plots (TP) using the method of step-by-step proportional representation. After cross-cutting, they were subjected to a complete analysis of the trunk and as a result, the height of the tree at 10 years of age and the height, diameter and volume of the trunk at 70 years of age were calculated. It has been established that with age in spruce forest plantations, some of the trees that started off stronger may eventually lose their ranking positions, while the initially weaker trees, on the contrary, can raise up through the ranks. At the same time, the more average trees in the plantation remain at the centre of such a process; according to all three inventory indicators (height, diameter and the volume of the trunk), their position becomes the most stable with age. Thus, the height at 10 years of age can be considered as a diagnostic sign indicating further growth of trees in forest plantations.

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M. D. Merzlenko

Institute of Forest Science, RAS

Email: bryntsev@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Sovetskaya st. 21, Uspenskoe, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, 143030

V. А. Bryntsev

The Principal Botanical Garden of the RAS

Author for correspondence.
Email: bryntsev@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Botanicheskaya st. 4, Moscow, 127276

A. A. Kozhenkova

The Principal Botanical Garden of the RAS

Email: bryntsev@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Botanicheskaya st. 4, Moscow, 127276

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2. Fig. 1. Matrix of tree height rank change by 70 years from the initial height rank of 10 years.

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3. Fig. 2. Matrix of the change in the rank in the diameter of the tree by 70 years from the initial rank in height at 10 years.

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4. Fig. 3. Matrix of the change in the rank in terms of the volume of the tree trunk by the age of 70 from the initial rank in height at 10 years.

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