Biological Productivity of Scots Pine Cultures in the Northern Taiga Forest Area

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10.17238/issn0536-1036.2018.6.101

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Rational use of forests first of all is а transition to the resource-saving technologies including the use of forest plantations phytomass as а raw material for the processing industry. The use of all parts of tree (stand) is a matter of great economic importance. Wastewood (boughs and needles), edgings (bark) and products of their processing are widely used in chemical, pulp and paper, perfume, pharmaceutical and food industries, agriculture and production of construction materials. Knowledge of total biological productivity as well as individual biometric parameters of forest phytocenoses is necessary for compiling a database of forest vegetation bioproductivity dynamics at different levels. The research purpose was determining the biological productivity of Scots pine cultures in the north taiga forest area (Arkhangelsk region, Plesetsk district). The objects of observations were the areas of Scots pine cultures in blueberry and cowberry types of forest growing conditions. Sample plots were laid with the use of standard methods. 10 sample trees were taken from different thickness levels on each sample plot. Sample trees were divided into the following fractions of phytomass: dry boughs, living branches, tree foliage (needle-leaved shoots with diameter above buttress up to 0.8 cm), trunk bark, trunk wood. Masses of fractions for each sample tree were determined by the means of electronic quick balance within the accuracy of ±50 g. The initial mass data of the phytomass fractions of the sample trees from each sample plot were subjected to the regression analysis, which is considered to be the most accurate and universal. Biological productivity of pine cultures (4.3 t/ha per year) in blueberry pine forest is 11 % more than in cowberry pine forest (3.8 t/ha per year). Biological productivity of the cultures in all aerial phytomass fractions of the stand in the both studied forest types increases in the age range from 31 to 48 years. The most representative parameter of stands bioproductivity is stemwood mass. The fraction ratio in the total aerial phytomass increases with age. Inverse relationship is distinctive for such phytomass fractions as trunk bark and crown. Their ratio in the total mass of tree layer decreases with aged. The fraction of dry boughs accumulates mass in the studied age range, while its ratio is increasing in the total aerial phytomass. Data on formation dynamics of phytocoenosis phytomass can be used for justifying of silvicultural measures.

Authors

O.N. Tyukavina¹, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor
D.N. Klevtsov¹, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor
I.N. Bolotov², Doctor of Biological Sciences, Senior Researcher
B.Yu. Filippov¹, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor
G.M. Adayi^1,3, Postgraduate Student

Affiliation

¹Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dviny, 17, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russian Federation; e-mail: d.klevtsov@narfu.ru, o.tukavina@narfu.ru
²N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research, RAS, Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dviny, 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russian Federation; e-mail: i.bolotov@narfu.ru
³Takoradi Technical University, P.O. BOX 256, Takoradi, Western Region, Ghana; e-mail: georgeadayi@yahoo.com

Keywords

forest cultures, pine, aerial phytomass, biological productivity

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Tyukavina O.N., Klevtsov D.N., Bolotov I.N., Filippov B.Yu., Adayi G.M. Biological Productivity of Scots Pine Cultures in the Northern Taiga Forest Area. Lesnoy Zhurnal [Forestry Journal], 2018, no. 6, pp. 101–108. DOI: 10.17238/issn0536-1036.2018.6.101

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Received on March 06, 2018