Loblolly and slash pine height and diameter are related to soil drainage in winter on poorly drained silt loams
✍ Scribed by James D. Haywood; Allan E. Tiarks; Eugene Shoulders
- Book ID
- 104628338
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 943 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0169-4286
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✦ Synopsis
Application. Forest managers can either use depth-to-gray mottles or water well measurements to predict the height and diameter response of loblolly and slash pine trees to soil drainage. On unfertilized silt loams, slash pines grow better than loblolly pines on more poorly drained soils and loblolly grows better on the better drained soils. Pines planted on beds did not grow better than those on flat-disked silt loams because standard bedding practices fail to sufficiently increase soil drainage. Forest managers should not expect better pine diameter and height growth on such soils from planting on beds.