biomass, carbon and nitrogen distribution in living woody plant parts of robinia pseudoacacia l. growing on reclamation sites in the mining region of lower lusatia (northeast germany)生物量、碳和氮的分布及以生活木本植物部分刺槐生长在回收站点矿业地区较低的卢萨蒂亚东北(德国).pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Forestry Research Volume 2012, Article ID 891798, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/891798 Research Article Biomass, Carbon and Nitrogen Distribution in Living Woody Plant Parts of Robinia pseudoacacia L. Growing on Reclamation Sites in the Mining Region of Lower Lusatia (Northeast Germany) Ansgar Quinkenstein,1 Dirk Pape,1 Dirk Freese,1 2 ¨ 1, 2 Bernd Uwe Schneider, and Reinhard F. Huttl 1 Chair of Soil Protection and Recultivation, Brandenburg University of Technology, Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 6, 03046 Cottbus, Germany 2 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany Correspondence should be addressed to Ansgar Quinkenstein, quinkenstein@tu-cottbus.de Received 28 October 2011; Accepted 18 March 2012 Academic Editor: Levente Denes Copyright © 2012 Ansgar Quinkenstein et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In the lignite mining region of Lower Lusatia (NE-Germany), Robinia pseudoacacia L. is an increasingly popular tree for the biomass production with short rotation coppices (SRCs) on reclamation sites. In order to evaluate biomass production, C and N allocation patterns in R. pseudoacacia stands between shoot, stump, coarse, and fine roots samples were collected from seedlings and three adjacent plantations and plants that were one, two and twelve years old. Results indicated that the summarized average dry matter production (DM) of the woody plant parts increased with plant age up to 7.45 t