Oak in mixtures and monocultures : results from the Snogeholm study area in southern Sweden
Oak is a tree specie with fine, high valued wood and thereby timber of oak has high economical value. One drawback of growing oak is the expensive establishment cost due to high seedlings price. Establishing and growing oak in mixed stands could be a solution for this problem. Another problem with o...
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SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre
2012
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| author | Loginov, Dmitry |
| author_browse | Loginov, Dmitry |
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| description | Oak is a tree specie with fine, high valued wood and thereby timber of oak has high
economical value. One drawback of growing oak is the expensive establishment cost due
to high seedlings price. Establishing and growing oak in mixed stands could be a solution
for this problem. Another problem with oak management is a quality of oak trees as it
could be easily reduced due to e.g. crooks, epicormic branches, forks (double stems).
Different mixtures will influence the possibilities to get oak trees with high quality. This
study was carried out in the 16 years old plantations in Snogeholm study area in southern
Sweden. Oak is growing in monoculture and in mixture with different tree species in this
area. The oak specie is Pedunculate oak (Quercus Robur) for all stands except one
monoculture plantation with Sessile oak (Quercus Petraea). There were studied 10
different planting methods where oak was growing together with spruce in different
arrangements, beech, lime and birch. It was found that it worth to plant oaks in mixture
with conifers, the best solution is to plant oak in mixture with spruce in groups. Mixtures
will provide higher total volume than in monoculture and better crop oaks quality. Mixture
of oak with beech gave the lowest quality for oak. |
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| id | RepoSLU3971 |
| institution | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2012 |
| publishDateSort | 2012 |
| publisher | SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre |
| publisherStr | SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre |
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| spelling | RepoSLU39712012-04-20T14:25:36Z Oak in mixtures and monocultures : results from the Snogeholm study area in southern Sweden Loginov, Dmitry oak potential crop oak spruce quality mixture Oak is a tree specie with fine, high valued wood and thereby timber of oak has high economical value. One drawback of growing oak is the expensive establishment cost due to high seedlings price. Establishing and growing oak in mixed stands could be a solution for this problem. Another problem with oak management is a quality of oak trees as it could be easily reduced due to e.g. crooks, epicormic branches, forks (double stems). Different mixtures will influence the possibilities to get oak trees with high quality. This study was carried out in the 16 years old plantations in Snogeholm study area in southern Sweden. Oak is growing in monoculture and in mixture with different tree species in this area. The oak specie is Pedunculate oak (Quercus Robur) for all stands except one monoculture plantation with Sessile oak (Quercus Petraea). There were studied 10 different planting methods where oak was growing together with spruce in different arrangements, beech, lime and birch. It was found that it worth to plant oaks in mixture with conifers, the best solution is to plant oak in mixture with spruce in groups. Mixtures will provide higher total volume than in monoculture and better crop oaks quality. Mixture of oak with beech gave the lowest quality for oak. SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre 2012 H2 eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/3971/ |
| spellingShingle | oak potential crop oak spruce quality mixture Loginov, Dmitry Oak in mixtures and monocultures : results from the Snogeholm study area in southern Sweden |
| title | Oak in mixtures and monocultures : results from the Snogeholm study area in southern Sweden |
| title_full | Oak in mixtures and monocultures : results from the Snogeholm study area in southern Sweden |
| title_fullStr | Oak in mixtures and monocultures : results from the Snogeholm study area in southern Sweden |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oak in mixtures and monocultures : results from the Snogeholm study area in southern Sweden |
| title_short | Oak in mixtures and monocultures : results from the Snogeholm study area in southern Sweden |
| title_sort | oak in mixtures and monocultures : results from the snogeholm study area in southern sweden |
| topic | oak potential crop oak spruce quality mixture |