J. For. Sci., 2020, 66(11):471-481 | DOI: 10.17221/161/2020-JFS

Evaluation of silver birch diameter increment model based on data of the Czech National Forest InventoryOriginal Paper

Jan Kikal*, Zdeněk Adamec
Department of Forest Management and Applied Geoinformatics, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

In the Czech Republic, the silver birch (Betula pendula Roth.) is considered as a pioneer and a soil preparing tree species. It occurs mainly on clearcutting areas after disturbances. The aim of this study was to fit breast height diameter increment model for birch with respect to tree age, share of birch trees and forest site type (ecological series - ES and forest vegetation zones - FVZ). We used data of both cycles of National Forest Inventory of the Czech Republic. We evaluated production potential of this species. We tested Korf and Michailoff increment models in variant of nonlinear least squares model (NLS) and nonlinear mixed effects model (NLME). Michailoff models performed better. We found seven statistically significant and practically applicable models. The greatest influence on increment of diameter at breast height have forest vegetation zone and ecological series whereas the influence of the share of birch in forest stand is smaller. The highest absolute values of diameter increment were on gleyed or enriched with water sites in the fourth forest vegetation zone.

Keywords: growth conditions; Korf function; Michailoff function; share of birch trees; stand production

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