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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH
卷 134, 期 2, 页码 247-259出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-014-0847-x
关键词
Competition; Seed rain; Vegetation control; Light; Tree seedling; Scarification
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- Ministere de l'Agriculture, de l'Agroalimentaire et de la Foret (MAAF) [E 30/07, E 16/2011]
- Office National des Forets (ONF)
- French National Research Agency (ANR) through Laboratory of Excellence ARBRE [ANR-12-LABXARBRE-01]
This study aimed at evaluating alternative methods to ensure regeneration success in temperate low-mountain forest stands by (1) estimating the effects of seed availability, competition from the adult stand and from neighbouring vegetation and interaction with the litter layer on seedling density, and by (2) comparing the effects of various silvicultural methods on regeneration success. The experiment was conducted in a monospecific beech (Fagus sylvatica) stand and a mixed silver fir-beech (Abies alba, Fagus sylvatica) stand with contrasted vegetation communities, in north-east France. Different methods of soil preparation, i.e. chemical (herbicide), mechanical (surface hoeing and deep scarification using light-weight machines) and biological (cover crops after surface hoeing) methods, were applied along a canopy opening gradient. After soil preparation (in 2009), vegetation colonisation and tree seedling density were monitored once a year from 2010 to 2013. Results were similar for the two sites. Seedling density the first year indicated a predominant effect of seed availability and soil scarification over potential competitive effects of adult stand and neighbouring vegetation. Despite continuous vegetation colonisation after soil preparation, seedling density remained stable over the 4 years of the experiment. For each of the 4 years, seedling density increased with canopy cover. Seedling density was higher after mechanical soil preparation than after herbicide application. Cover crops (following surface hoeing) appeared as the best method, ensuring both the lowest vegetation colonisation and the highest seedling density.
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