Five-year effects of cutting and herbicide treatments on control of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Rhododendron flavum</Emphasis> Don., and macronutrient pools in eastern beech (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Fagus orientalis</Emphasis> Lipsky) forests of Turkey |
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Authors: | Oktay Yildiz Derya E?en Shepard M Zedaker |
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Institution: | 1.Orman Fakültesi (Faculty of Forestry),Düzce üniversitesi (University),Konuralp, Duzce,Turkey;2.Department of Forestry,College of Natural Resources, Virginia Tech,Blacksburg,USA |
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Abstract: | This experiment was carried out in a mature (>100-year-old) eastern beech forest in the Eastern Black Sea Region (BSR) of
Turkey. The effects of experimental practices to control the woody plant Rhododendron flavum Don., including grubbing, manual cutting, and foliar and cut-stump spraying with imazapyr and triclopyr, were assessed on
understory and forest floor biomass and nutrients, as well as soil bulk density and nutrient content. The cut plots had 5,
15, and 38 times greater competing vegetation biomass than did the plots treated with triclopyr, grubbing, and imazapyr, respectively.
Because of the increased biomass, the amount of understory N, P, Ca, K, S, and Mg content on the cut plots was also substantially
higher when compared to the grubbed, imazapyr-treated, and triclopyr-treated plots. Triclopyr and imazapyr applications brought
about two- and threefold greater dead organic matter on the forest floor than did cutting and grubbing, respectively. As a
result, forest floor macronutrient contents on the imazapyr- and triclopyr-treated plots were significantly greater than on
the cut plots. Five years after treatments, soil bulk density at the 10–20 cm depth on the imazapyr-sprayed plots was about
14% higher than that on other treatments. Herbicides, especially imazapyr and grubbing were effective in controlling rhododendron.
Macronutrients stored in the rhododendron were released to the forest floor after vegetation was controlled with herbicides. |
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