scholarly journals Bud development types as a new macroscopic marker of Norway spruce decline and recovery processes along a mountainous pollution gradient

2006 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Polak
1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Bollmark ◽  
Hao-Jie Chen ◽  
Thomas Moritz ◽  
Lennart Eliasson

2006 ◽  
Vol 225 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 337-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás Polák ◽  
Barrett N. Rock ◽  
Petya Entcheva Campbell ◽  
Jitka Soukupová ◽  
Blanka Solcová ◽  
...  

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 1879-1889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Kehlet Hansen ◽  
Henrik Saxe ◽  
Anders Ræbild ◽  
Christian Nørgård Neilsen ◽  
Jens Peter Simonsen ◽  
...  

Severe spruce decline in Denmark at the end of the 1980s led to investigations of the physiology and genetics of the decline and the importance of sea salt deposition. Narrow-sense heritability of health in a progeny trial with 8-year-old Norway spruce families (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) was 0.58. Broad-sense heritability in a seed orchard with clones from ortets of southeastern European origin was 0.53. The health of the ortets correlated with family and clone health. Health of families and clones were not correlated. The health of three spruce provenances in the progeny trial varied from 6.3 to 7.7 on a 0-9 scale. Salt stress responses of 12 two-year-old open-ollinated families from the above clones were investigated after dipping branches into different salt solutions. Photosynthesis and transpiration decreased with increasing salt deposition, respiration increased, and water use efficiency increased initially and decreased later. Correlations between field health and physiological salt responses suggested that airborne salt predisposes to spruce decline rather than triggers it. Health of Norway spruce is unlikely to be improved by salt-resistance selection in the laboratory but may be improved by low transpiration and high water use efficiency selection. Visible injuries were primarily determined by the amount of salt taken up.


Metabolomics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 842-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeon Kyeong Lee ◽  
Danny Alexander ◽  
Jacob Wulff ◽  
Jorunn Elisabeth Olsen

Trees ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 809-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaana Luoranen ◽  
Sirkka Sutinen ◽  
Risto Rikala

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiko Liedeker ◽  
Richard M. Klein

Characteristic spotting of foliage on Norway spruce in Europe, used as an indicator for Waldsterben, was also found and described on foliage of Piceaabies (L.) Karst., P. rubens Sarg., P. glauca (Moench) Voss, P. mariana (Mill.) B.S.P., Abiesbalsamea (L.) Mill., Pinusstrobus L., P. banksiana Lamb., P. resinosa Ait., P. sylvestris L., and Tsugacanadensis (L.) Carr. in northeastern North America. Yellow spotting is restricted to the upper, sun-exposed surface of the needles. These chlorotic spots generally start along ridges of the needles and merge into larger necrotic areas in later stages. It was observed that the number of spots per needle and the number of needles per internode exhibiting such spots are increasing with foliage age. The symptom was prominent on overstory and understory trees in high-elevation spruce–fir forests in Germany and northeastern North America. It was also found in all low-elevation stands sampled.


2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 185-194
Author(s):  
David Dušek ◽  
Jiří Novák ◽  
Dušan Kacálek ◽  
Marian Slodičák

Despite recent issues, Norway spruce remains the most important commercial tree species which might be demanded henceforth for its broadly utilizable wood. Even before foresters faced both the bark beetle outbreaks and spruce decline, spruce monospecific stands were known to be prone also to other damage due to snow and wind. On this basis, measures that help prevent such failures were looked for, which resulted in the establishment of international IUFRO experimental series focused on impacts of different thinning regimes on stability and production of spruce stands. The thinning treatments differed in numbers of trees removed and retained on the site when dominant height of crop trees was reached or allowable cut in non-crop trees was accumulated. Also effects of different width of skid trails were tested. The study summarizes the results from the two IUFRO experiments in the Czech Republic. Effects of thinning regimes on spruce were found positive though thinning reduced the total volume production of wood while improving crop-tree stability which enhanced production safety. Different widths of skid trails had no effect on wood increment. Early thinning of spruce can be used to prevent their damage. No such measure, however, can alleviate the spruce decline.


Author(s):  
Martin Kaupenjohann ◽  
Wolfgang Schaaf ◽  
Wolfgang Zech
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