... insect populations in the
context of this exceptional event. Observations of changes in population levels of the main European forest insect pests during and after the drought are
presented and ... prolonged drought on bark beetles
The success of the establishment of bark beetle populations
on their host tree depends, on the level of the...
... grid and their values for the positions of individual trees were
estimated by ordinary point kriging. The evaluation of phenotypic variation (height, diameter, Julian days of spring
flushing and ... for the modelling of
autumn discoloration. e length of the vegetation
period was then assessed as the diff erence between
the midpoints of autumn discoloration an...
... of crop trees in the young stands and al-
teration of crop trees caused one of the main weaknesses of
the selection thinning type, namely, high costs. In the total
stand tending costs, thinning ... Before the last thinning in 2001, the
growing stock of the control stands C1 and C2 was 23% and
18% higher compared to the growing stock of the thinned
s...
... mechani-
sation of the thinning, harvesting and regeneration operations
result in constraints to the physical, chemical and biological
properties of the soil [21]. On the other hand, remediation is
technically ... composition of soil solutions and on leaching
of nutrients in drainage waters were observed by a continuous monitoring, six years before and three...
... carried out in forest conditions (but
see [10, 20, 38]). Moreover, studies investigating the effect of
tillage on bulk density and water in ltration have led to con-
tradictory and inconclusive ... according to the Indicator Species Analysis with a
Monte Carlo test of significance (1000 permutations). The table shows the indicator value of each species (% of perfe...
... mg of leaf powder with
70% acetone. Tubes containing the sample and the acetone were
sonicated three times for 1 min allowing the tubes to cool for three
minutes between successive sonications. ... shade
cloth to 8% of the naturally incident PAR for the low-light environ-
ment (L8) and to 36% of the incident PAR for the high light envi-
ronment (L36), in order...
... 0.05) in infec-
tion from clones 7, 107, 110, 152.
e stability of the intensity of infection of black
poplar clones by the rust (the rank of clones ac-
cording to the intensity of infection) ... t-test
Table 5. Increments of stem diameter and plant height from the beginning of vegetation to the fi rst rust incidence
(beginning of July 2007) and their p...
... conditions [3, 16, 41]. Taking into account
the bulk production of CO
2
-C in mg per kg of soil, the na-
tive forest plot mineralized more carbon than the other plots,
suggesting that both the ... was determined on one hand, by the nitrate and water-
extractable Ca, Mg, and Mn contents, and on the other hand,
by the water-extractable Fe and Al contents. This...
... aqueous solution as follow and then sterilized by autoclave:
for White rot fungi, 85 mL of a solution containing 40 g of glucose,
3 g of peptone, 15 g of malt extract and 1 000 mL of distilled ... fungi: 80 mL of a solution containing 20 g of glucose,
1.5 g of peptone, 7.5 g of malt extract and 1 000 mL of distilled water.
After inoculating glass jars with fungal cul...
... castalin,
roburin A and C on the one hand and the percentage of vescala-
gin and vescalagin/castalagin ratio on the other hand.
The significance of these correlations is that the increase
of the total ... total ellagitannin content, vescalagin, castalagin,
grandinin and roburin A-E content. The second axis explains
16.1% of the total variation and is relat...