Exploring life growth patterns in birch (Betula pendula)
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- Margot Vanhellemont (UGent) , Joris Van Acker (UGent) and Kris Verheyen (UGent)
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- The conversion of homogeneous plantations of conifers to mixed or broadleaved forests is part of sustainable forest management strategies in Western Europe. For the conversion of pine plantations on sandy soils, birch seems a convenient choice. Yet, thus far, little is known about the growth of mature birches outside Northern Europe. We sampled 32 birch trees in forests throughout the sandy ecoregion in northern Belgium at sites that varied in soil and local stand conditions. Half of the birches showed the characteristic pattern in growth (expressed as basal area increment) with a sharply increasing growth till around the age of 25 years followed by a steep decrease in growth. The growth was strongly related to tree age and crown dimensions, only weakly related to soil conditions, and not related to the local stand conditions.
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- Tree ring cores, growth modelling, temperate forest, silver birch, competition index, SILVER BIRCH, TREE GROWTH, SCOTS PINE, B-PUBESCENS, STANDS, ROTH, FOREST, FINLAND, SILVICULTURE, ADMIXTURE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8040606
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- Vanhellemont, Margot, et al. “Exploring Life Growth Patterns in Birch (Betula Pendula).” SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH, vol. 31, no. 6, 2016, pp. 561–67, doi:10.1080/02827581.2016.1141978.
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- Vanhellemont, M., Van Acker, J., & Verheyen, K. (2016). Exploring life growth patterns in birch (Betula pendula). SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH, 31(6), 561–567. https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2016.1141978
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- Vanhellemont, Margot, Joris Van Acker, and Kris Verheyen. 2016. “Exploring Life Growth Patterns in Birch (Betula Pendula).” SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH 31 (6): 561–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2016.1141978.
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- Vanhellemont, Margot, Joris Van Acker, and Kris Verheyen. 2016. “Exploring Life Growth Patterns in Birch (Betula Pendula).” SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH 31 (6): 561–567. doi:10.1080/02827581.2016.1141978.
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- 1.Vanhellemont M, Van Acker J, Verheyen K. Exploring life growth patterns in birch (Betula pendula). SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH. 2016;31(6):561–7.
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- [1]M. Vanhellemont, J. Van Acker, and K. Verheyen, “Exploring life growth patterns in birch (Betula pendula),” SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 561–567, 2016.
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