Nutrition management of cedar and hemlock plantations in coastal British Columbia |
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Authors: | Cindy E. Prescott Victor Nery Annette van Niejenhuis Toktam Sajedi Peter Marshall |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2005–2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada 2. Western Forest Products Inc., Campbell River, BC, Canada
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Abstract: | Recent re-measurements of silvicultural trials in conifer plantations on nutrient-poor cedar-hemlock (CH) cutovers on northern Vancouver Island have confirmed co-limitation by nitrogen and phosphorus. Repeated fertilization increased volumes of both cedar and hemlock on CH sites (at 2,500 stems ha?1) by about 100 m3 ha?1 relative to unfertilized plots 22 years following initial fertilization, and increased the productivity of regenerating conifers to a level approximating that of neighbouring hemlock-amabilis fir (HA) sites. More surprising was the response to fertilization on the more-productive HA sites. After 22 years, cedar in fertilized HA plots had produced an extra 180 m3 ha?1 compared to unfertilized HA plots, while hemlock had produced an extra 250 m3 ha?1 in fertilized plots (at 2,500 stems ha?1). Thus, contrary to expectations, the greatest volume responses of both hemlock and cedar to fertilization occurred on the good (HA) sites rather than on the poor (CH) sites. Ecological studies of CH and HA sites supported the hypothesis that the poor nutrient supply and productivity of CH sites is a long-term consequence of excessive moisture, and that the two site types bracket a critical ecological threshold of moisture, aeration and redox. |
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