J. For. Sci., 2020, 66(11):461-470 | DOI: 10.17221/143/2020-JFS

How different approaches to logging residues handling affected retention of nutrients at poor-soil Scots pine site after clear-cutting? A case studyOriginal Paper

Ondřej Špulák*, Dušan Kacálek
Forestry and Game Management Research Institute, Opočno Research Station, Opočno, Czech Republic

Biomass nutrient loss and retention were studied at nutrient-poor forest site dominated by Scots pine where two methods of logging residues handling after clear-cutting were compared. The experiment was conducted on nutrient-poor pine-oak forest site on deep sandy-gravel unconsolidated sediments at the altitude of 255 m. There were three treatments established such as (i) control - no harvesting, (ii) whole-tree harvesting with ca. 10% of the slash retained unintentionally on site as processing residues and (iii) stem-only harvesting when small-diameter wood and slash were left on site. The third treatment was found to retain much larger amounts of nutrients in logging residues representing 16% of total above-ground dry mass which accounted for 58% of N, 32% of P, 56% of K, 22% of Ca and 28% of Mg left on site.

Keywords: biomass removal; nutrients; Scots pine; Norway spruce; allometry; whole-tree and stem-only harvesting

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Špulák O, Kacálek D. How different approaches to logging residues handling affected retention of nutrients at poor-soil Scots pine site after clear-cutting? A case study. J. For. Sci. 2020;66(11):461-470. doi: 10.17221/143/2020-JFS.
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