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Tree Growth and Silviculture

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".

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Special Issue Editors

Dr. Edgaras Linkevičius

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Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Ecology, Agriculture Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Studentų Str.11, Kaunas District, LT-53361 Akademija, Lithuania
Interests: productivity of pure and mixed stands; short rotation forestry; effects of climate change to forests; growth and yield models
Dr. Daiva Tiškutė-Memgaudienė

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Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Ecology, Agriculture Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Studentų Str.11, Kaunas District, LT-53361 Akademija, Lithuania
Interests: GIS analysis; remote sensing; forest management; land management
Dr. Szymon Bijak

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Department of Dendrometry and Forest Productivity, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Warsaw, Poland
Interests: biomass; dendroecology; tree-rings; site index modeling; soils
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

Climate change affects forests in various aspects that have direct impact on the productivity of forest stands. Increasing temperatures and precipitation may increase the productivity of Boreal forests, yet increasing temperatures in temperate forests may lead to severe droughts, fires, or other natural calamities that would have a negative impact on these forests’ growth.  Thus, planned adaptation to the climate change mainly through the introduction of new silvicultural measures and strategies may create new opportunities that arise from a climate change. Additionally, productive forests accumulate more carbon, which could further be stored in various forms of wood products.

Thus, this Special Issue on “Tree Growth and Silviculture” aims to present the state-of-the-art developments and best silvicultural practices in the management of the pure and mixed forest stands, in order to maintain their productivity in the presence of climate change.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • Climate change and forest growth;
  • Growth of trees in mixtures;
  • Growth of trees in pure stands;
  • Fast-growing trees and their silviculture;
  • Silviculture and carbon sequestration;
  • Growth and yield modeling.

Dr. Edgaras Linkevičius
Dr. Daiva Tiškutė-Memgaudienė
Dr. Szymon Bijak
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Forests is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • climate change
  • mixtures
  • pure stands
  • fast-growing trees
  • silviculture
  • productivity
  • carbon sequestration
  • growth and yield modeling

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The Growing Dynamic of Pure Scots Pine Stands Using Different Thinning Regimes in Lithuania
by Edgaras Linkevičius, Benas Šilinskas, Lina Beniušienė, Marius Aleinikovas and Almantas Kliučius
Forests 2023, 14(8), 1610; https://doi.org/10.3390/f14081610 - 10 Aug 2023
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The aim of this study is to relate initial stand density and thinning intensity to tree diameter, height, and volume increment based on continuous 30-year observations in thinning experimental stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). The thinning experiments on Scots pine [...] Read more.
The aim of this study is to relate initial stand density and thinning intensity to tree diameter, height, and volume increment based on continuous 30-year observations in thinning experimental stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). The thinning experiments on Scots pine were established in 1990 and 1992, and the experimental model in each trial comprised five density variants: control and four plots with tree densities up to 3.0–4.4, 2.0–2.4, 1.0–1.2, and 0.5–0.6 thousand trees per hectare after the initial thinning. Since the establishment, only the dead trees were removed in control plots, and other initial density plots were thinned according to predefined thinning treatment plans. Our study shows that the lowest increment in diameter was found in control plots and the highest in the most intensive thinning plots, in which the diameter increment was 1.5 times higher. However, the intensification of thinning and the signs of growth stabilization in the control stands cannot guarantee them the position of highest productivity and cumulative volume in the future. Full article
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Growth Response of Trees with Different Growth Statuses to Pruning on a Pinus massoniana Lamb. Plantation
by Xizhou Zhao, Shunlan Mang, Wenxuan Quan and Guijie Ding
Forests 2023, 14(4), 668; https://doi.org/10.3390/f14040668 - 23 Mar 2023
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Pruning is an important technique in culturing good knot-free timber. However, to make more accurate pruning plans, it is necessary to consider the growing status of trees and set reasonable pruning intensities based on this. In a seven-year-old Pinus massoniana Lamb. plantation, we [...] Read more.
Pruning is an important technique in culturing good knot-free timber. However, to make more accurate pruning plans, it is necessary to consider the growing status of trees and set reasonable pruning intensities based on this. In a seven-year-old Pinus massoniana Lamb. plantation, we carried out pruning twice with a time interval of two years. The treatments included one unpruned treatment (CK) and five pruned treatments (from P1 to P5, representing the live branch height being kept at 68%, 55%, 60%, 55% and 45% of the tree height). CK, P1 and P2 were conducted in the first pruning in March 2019, and the remaining treatments were conducted in the second pruning in January 2021. The growth investigations were carried out in March 2019, December 2019, December 2020 and December 2021. Another investigation was carried out only for the measurement of live branch heights and crown widths in January 2021 just after the second pruning. The results showed that pruning resulted in a 15.08% to 60.62% increase in diameter growth and an 10.28% to 29.87% increase in volume growth. The stem form was also improved. Significant differences were recorded in live branch heights after green pruning but gradually recovered to the same level in two years by branch senescence. Pruning also resulted in a faster extension of the crown width with an enlarged growing space by the removal of green branches. We highlighted that trees with different growth statuses responded differently to pruning intensities: trees of weak growth statuses grew better under a light pruning intensity, while those with a strong growth status grew better under a severe pruning intensity. Overall, for the seven-year-old young mason pine plantation, keeping four rounds of branches in trees with diameters of less than 8 cm and keeping three rounds of branches in trees with diameters of more than 8 cm were appropriate measures. Full article
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