Author:
Boily Jocelyn,Doucet René
Abstract
Annual height growth of natural regeneration was measured in 18- to 21-year-old clear-cuts of black spruce stands growing on sites of contrasted drainage, in two ecological regions of the Haute-Gatineau-et-Cabonga management unit in western Quebec. Most regeneration was established by layering and was growing slowly on all sites at time of release by clear-cutting of the main stand. Height growth rates increased rapidly thereafter on mesic sites: about 7 to 8 years after release, it reached 15 cm or more per year, and 32 to 45 cm per year 20 years after harvest. On moist sites, growth rates of 15 cm per year were attained only 10 to 15 years after release, and did not exceed 25 cm at age 20. These results show that growth of black spruce natural regeneration is controlled more by site quality than by the mechanism responsible for reproduction.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Ecology,Forestry,Global and Planetary Change
Cited by
19 articles.
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