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T1 Stand structural effects on growth distribution and growth efficiency in Scots pine and Mediterranean pine in Spain
A1 Ordoñez Alonso, Ángel Cristobal
A1 Maguire, Douglas A.
A1 Pando Fernández, Valentín
A1 Bravo Oviedo, Felipe
K1 Dominance hypothesis
K1 Growth dominance coefficient
K1 Even-aged stands
K1 31 Ciencias Agrarias
AB Understanding the growth efficiency of individual trees, or growth per unit of resource utilization, can inform silviculturalmanagement strategies to maximize tree and stand growth. Stand structure—the size and spatial distributions of trees withinthe stand—strongly influences water, light, and nutrient availability, as well as the resource-use efficiency of each tree. Keysilvicultural tools for stand management include manipulating tree density, size distribution, and arrangement by controllingnatural regeneration, artificial seeding, planting seedlings, and/or subsequent thinning of established trees. We analyzed twosets of plots from even-aged stands of common coniferous species in central Spain, 106 pure Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)and 92 pure Mediterranean pine (Pinus pinaster), to examine the dynamics of the dominance hypothesis, the relationshipbetween stand structure and growth, and the relationship between structure and growth efficiency. Our main findings revealeda negative impact of size-class uniformity on stand growth in both Scots pine and Mediterranean pine, while the positiveeffect of tree size on growth efficiency was supported for Mediterranean pine stands but uncertain for Scots pine. At theoperational level, our results highlight how thinning intensity is more important than the thinning method in Mediterraneanpinewoods and how thinning can benefit the provision of multiple ecosystem services. We also recommend integratingdominance effects on growth into individual tree modelling.
PB Springer
SN 1612-4669
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/75195
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/75195
LA eng
NO European Journal of Forest Research, 2024, vol. 143, n. 5, p. 1411-1428
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 02-jun-2025