A contribution to the sessile oak site and beech site defining in central Serbia
2009
Krstic, M., University of Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia). Faculty of Forestry | Cevrljakovic, B., University of Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia). Faculty of Forestry
The study was carried out in sessile oak forests and beech forests in the region of central Serbia. The stands are classified as pure stands with the percentage of other species up to 10% per tree number, mixed forests of sessile oak with other species, and mixed forests of beech with other species, whose percentage does not exceed 50%. Altogether 257 stands were monitored - 202 beech stands and 55 sessile oak stands. By the applied method of defining the local heat potential (Lujic, 1960) modified by Rotknic et al. (2001) and Krstic (2004, 2008), which represents possibility of soil heating without vegetation, were determined. In this way, a scala of 162 possible combinations of local heat potential was obtained, which explains more precisely the dependence of beech stands and sessile oak stands on the topographic conditions. By applying weighted values of the thermal co-ordinates of aspect and slope (E) for each altitudinal belt of 100 m, it was concluded that pure stands have the widest ecological range. By using the local heat potential of a region, it can be identified which sites, i.e. which combinations of exposure, slope and altitude belong to the particular tree species. Consequently, a more reliable selection of tree species can be done for the bio-reclamation of barrens and other deforested terrains.
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