the sprouting capacity of 8–21-year-old poplars and some practical implications8-21-year-old杨树的发芽能力和一些实际意义.pdfVIP

Forests 2012, 3, 528-545; doi:10.3390/f3030528 OPEN ACCESS forests ISSN 1999–4907 /journal/forests Article The Sprouting Capacity of 8–21-Year-Old Poplars and Some Practical Implications Tord Johansson * and Birger Hjelm Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala 75007, Sweden; E-Mail: birger.hjelm@slu.se * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: tord.johansson@slu.se; Tel.: +46-18-673830; Fax: +46-18-673156. Received: 31 May 2012; in revised form: 5 July 2012 / Accepted: 6 July 2012 / Published: 24 July 2012 Abstract: We investigated the sprouting capacity of poplar stumps in ten 8–21-year old stands growing on former farmland in Sweden situated between 55°N and 60°N. Seven of the stands were planted with the clone OP-42 (Populus maximowiczii Henry × Populus trichocarpa Torr. and Gray), one with black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa Torr. and Gray) and two with unidentified clones. The poplars’ mean age was 17 years (range 8–21); six of the stands were growing on clay soils, two on tills and two on loam. The studied sprouts were 1–7 years old. Stump sprouting was observed in all studied stands. The number of sprouts per living stump decreased as sprout age increased. The mean dry mass of all sprouts stump−1 was 16.1 ± 14.0 (range 3.3–37.2) kg. A biomass equation was constructed for estimating sprout biomass from the sprouts’ diameter at 10 cm above the ground (D10).