Abstract
The survival of lodgepole pine (Pinusconforta Dougl.) planted in the spring under a variety of conditions was found to be closely related to its root growth capacity as measured by two newly developed methods. One method employed a displacement technique to measure the root volume of test seedlings, nondestructively, both at the beginning and end of a period of growth under standard conditions. The change in root volume that occurred during the test was taken as a measure of root growth capacity. The other method for measuring root growth capacity was to record, by means of a semiquantitative scale, the number of newly elongated roots possessed by test seedlings after a 1-week period of growth under standard conditions. For comparative purposes, it was found that very similar results were obtained in root growth capacity tests of this type run at two widely differing temperatures (30 °C day – 25 °C night temperature, and a constant temperature of 15 °C).
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Ecology,Forestry,Global and Planetary Change
Cited by
102 articles.
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