Processes of loss, recruitment, and increment in stands of a primeval character in selected areas of the Pieniny National Park (southern Poland)
2007
Jaworski, A.,Agricultural University of Cracow (Poland). Dept. of Silviculture | Podlaski, R.,University of Kielce (Poland). Div. of General Biology and Nature Protection
Studies were carried out during 1987-1997 in four stands situated in the lower mountain zone, and representing the association Carici-Fagetum abietetosum (sample plots Facimiech and Walusiowka, Poland) and the community of a transitory character between Dentario glandulosae-Fagetum and Carici-Fagetum (sample plots Grodek and Przelecz Sosnow). The greatest volume increment was found in a pure fir stand of Facimiech (9.4 cubic m/ha/year, i.e. 1.4% of actual stand volume determined in 1997) being in the optimum stage, phase of aging and regeneration, and the smallest one stand of Grodek (5.3 cubic m/ha/year, i.e. 0.9% of actual stand volume) being in the growing up stage, phase of selection forest. The stand of Przelcz Sosnow was characterized by the greatest mortality of trees (volume of loss, i.e. 13.5 cubic m/ha/year). In this stand of a transitory character between the growing up and optimum stages, a break up of the stand took place due to rapid mortality of fir. Volume of recruitment was the greatest in the stand of Facimiech, i.e. 0.05 cubic m/ha/year. In three fir-beech stands, the proportions of fir and beech in stand increment differed from their proportions in stand volume. The percentage of fir in volume increment was smaller and that of beech greater than their percentages in stand volume. Processes of increment and mortality of fir and beech pointed to a progressive process of changes taking place in stand species composition, expressed by the increase of beech and the decrease of fir. The knowledge about values of loss, recruitment, and increment may be of help in determination of the amount of cut in productive and protective forests.
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