Peculiarities of the Response of Old-Growth Pine to Drainage of a Watershed Area in the Komi Republic. P. 77–91

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The aim of the study is determined by the need to study the silvicultural efficiency of hydromelioration at sites with old-growth pine stands in the Komi Republic, where the total drainage area currently amounts to approximately 100 thousand ha. The relevance of this work is related to the fact that as a result of the implementation of hydromelioration plans, significant areas of old-growth stands have accumulated in the republic. At such sites in commercial forests, the forest industry drainage field is focused on timber harvesting. At the same time, it is permissible to preserve drained stands up to the age of natural maturity in protective forests that perform sanitary, hygienic and aesthetic functions. When deciding on alternative options for using such stands for timber harvesting, it is advisable to assess their ability to adapt to the water regime on drained forest lands. The dynamics of radial increment of old-growth pine trees located at different distances from drainage channels has been studied. The increment is a fairly objective marker of the response of trees to changes in the water regime of soils after drainage, both positive and negative. It has been established that old-growth pine trees in the watershed area successfully adapt to changes in the water regime after drainage. The average increment in the old-growth pine trees in the inter-channel space reaches its maximum at the beginning of the 5th five-year period after drainage. According to the forecast, the increment will reach values corresponding to the increment before drainage by the end of the 12th fiveyear period. All other things being equal, in the first 4 five-year periods after drainage in the inter-channel space, a positive relationship is observed between the increment and the distance of trees from the channels, and from the 5th five-year period, the negative relationship between these characteristics, typical for drained stands, is restored. The latter indicates the successful adaptation to the conditions after drainage in the watershed area not only of individual oldgrowth pine trees, but also of their totality in the inter-channel space at the hydromelioration site.

Authors

Vladimir V. Pakhuchij^, Doctor of Agriculture, Professor; ResearcherID: KLD-8745-2024, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7530-308X
Ludmila M. Pakhuchaya, Candidate of Agriculture; ResearcherID: KLE-3191-2024, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2096-3782

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Syktyvkar Forest Institute – Branch of the Saint-Petersburg State Forest Technical University named after S.M. Kirov, ul. Lenina, 39, Syktyvkar, 167982, Russian Federation; pakhutchy@rambler.ru, ljudmila-pahuchaja@rambler.ru

Keywords

the Komi Republic, forest hydromelioration, pine, radial increment of pine, the relationship between the increment of trees and their distance from the channel

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Pakhuchij V.V., Pakhuchaya L.M. Peculiarities of the Response of Old-Growth Pine to Drainage of a Watershed Area in the Komi Republic. Lesnoy Zhurnal = Russian Forestry Journal, 2025, no. 6, pp. 77–91. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.37482/0536-1036-2025-6-77-91

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