Tea tree oil is extracted from the leaves and twigs of Melaleuca alternifolia (Maiden & Betche) Cheel, and it is widely used in medicines, food preservatives, cosmetics and health care products. Traditional propagation of M. alternifolia from seeds does not necessarily transfer the desired characteristics from their mother trees, the seedlings are not uniform, and the multiplication rate from cuttings is relatively low. For these reasons, it is necessary to develop tissue culture techniques for this species. This study showed that an efficient explant initiation medium for M. alternifolia was MS 1/2 + BA 0.6 mg L?1 + NAA 0.1 mg L?1 + sucrose 30 g L?1, which yielded a 75.9 % initiation rate. An efficient multiplication medium was MS + BA 0.3 mg L?1 + NAA 0.15 mg L?1 + sucrose 30 g L?1, which yielded a 4.3 multiplication rate and 3.2 cm shoot length. The rooting medium was MS 1/2 + IBA 0.1–0.25 mg L?1 + sucrose 15 g L?1, which yielded a 100 % rooting rate, 2.94–3.32 roots per individual and 1.36–1.44 cm root length. Local red-core soil was suitable as a transplant medium, and yielded 98 % survival. This study improved the tissue culture technique for mass-propagation of M. alternifolia, enabling the production of high quality plants for market. 相似文献
Dendrochronological approaches enable us to understand forest stand dynamics by estimation of disturbance history and age structure. The present study was conducted in an old-growth beech forest in a forest reserve in western Japan. Increment cores were taken for tree ring analysis from all canopy trees in a 50 m × 130 m study plot. Radial growth release criteria were developed to identify significant growth releases in each tree ring series and to characterize the disturbance history of the study site. The age structure of the forest was indicative of continuous establishment by Fagus crenata and simultaneous establishment by Magnolia obovata. A variety of low-intensity disturbances were identified in each decade, especially after the 1900s, but the occurrence of high-intensity catastrophic disturbance was rare, and likely played an important role in maintaining species diversity in the existing forest canopy. The results also suggest that F. crenata regenerates gradually before and after both large- and small-scale disturbances, whereas M. obovata and Betula grossa regenerate only after large-scale catastrophic disturbances. 相似文献
A study was conducted to assess the role and effectiveness of community organisers in supporting the development of people’s
organisations in achieving community-based forest management objectives in Leyte Province Philippines. Community organisers
were found to be effective in forming people’s organisations (POs), motivating people to participate in voluntary activities
organised by POs and encouraging cohesiveness among PO members. Community organisers manage to raise the level of environmental
awareness and knowledge of members of people’s organisations, develop leadership interest and skills, create various livelihood
opportunities and provide direction and facilitate the establishment of large tree plantations. However, the short duration
of community organisers’ contracts (typically two years) is insufficient to establish mature and cohesive POs prepared to
assume management on their own, including the management of tree plantations. Further, lack of training and funding support,
low wages, delayed payment of salaries and limited time to work with people’s organisations, as well as the pressure to produce
tangible outputs such the establishment of large tree plantations, prevents them from placing greater emphasis on the development
and empowerment of the people. 相似文献
During the 1980s, land- and labor-intensive simultaneous agroforestry systems (SAFS) were promoted in the tropics, based on the optimism on tree-crop niche differentiation and its potential for designing tree-crop mixtures using high tree-densities. In the 1990s it became clearer that although trees would yield crucial products and facilitate simultaneous growing of crops, they would also exert strong competitive effects on crops. In the meanwhile, a number of instruments for measuring the use of growth resources, exploratory and predictive models, and production assessment tools were developed to aid in understanding the opportunities and biophysical limits of SAFS. Following a review of the basic concepts of interspecific competition and facilitation between plants in general, this chapter synthesizes positive and negative effects of trees on crops, and discusses how these effects interact under different environmental resource conditions and how this imposes tradeoffs, biophysical limitations and management requirements in SAFS. The scope and limits of some of the research methods and tools, such as analytical and simulation models, that are available for assessing and predicting to a certain extent the productive outcome of SAFS are also discussed. The review brings out clearly the need for looking beyond yield performance in order to secure long-term management of farms and landscapes, by considering the environmental impacts and functions of SAFS.
New Forests - Gmelina arborea Roxb. (gmelina) was introduced in Costa Rica in the late 1960s. At the present time, gmelina is the most widely planted tree species in Costa Rica. According to... 相似文献
Crown transparency estimates of Scots pine, Norway spruce, common beech, pedunculate and sessile oak, annually surveyed between
1990 and 2004 within a grid over Germany, provide a suitable response variable to study drought effects on forest trees. Major
climatic factors, available on a monthly basis as plot-specifically interpolated values and parameters of site and stand conditions,
biotic and other relevant factors were used as predictors in different cross- and length-sectional, and longitudinal models.
Stand age is a considerable and most constant driver of crown transparency in all species. Pine, spruce and beech responded—mainly
with a delay of 1 year—with some foliar loss in areas where there was a surplus of temperature after the generally hot and
dry summer of 2003. Parallel time-series analyses delivered species-specific geographic large-scale patterns with delayed
or recent precipitation deficits or temperature surpluses. Even if beech is partly responding in current years with leaf loss
towards precipitation surpluses, defoliation is especially high 1 year after hot summers, partly a result of high seed sets
after such summers. Crown condition of oak responds in dry and warm areas according to the drought stress hypothesis, however,
in cool and wet mountainous ranges oak responds after wet summers with higher defoliation. Longitudinal approaches revealed
for all 4-tree species significant relationships between crown condition and deviations from the long-term means of temperature,
precipitation but also global radiation and wind speed. Results do not always match the drought stress hypothesis, however,
this is not to expect considering the heterogeneous site, stand and climatic conditions across Germany. Complex interactions
of climatic and biotic factors also impede simple relationships. Soil-related clusters reveal higher sensitivity of spruce
and beech towards climatic drought factors on more acid soils with thin humus layers. Also clusters constructed from plot-specific
courses of defoliation reveal groups with rather closer relationships like a group of pine plots in the Oberpfalz, which seems
to be especially sensitive to summer drought. 相似文献
A dendrochronological technique was used to investigate canopy recruitment of beech (Fagus engleriana Seem.) trees in western Hubei Province of Central China by identifying growth releases through gap formation. The results
indicated that 83% and 17% of the canopy trees regenerate in gaps and the understory, respectively. Radial growth analyses
demonstrated that there are three modes for beech regeneration and canopy recruitment: (1) gap origin without suppression;
(2) gap origin with period(s) of suppression; and (3) understory origin. Multiple periods of release and suppression imply
that beech regeneration and canopy recruitment are very sensitive to gap formation. 相似文献
The germination of Casuarina equisetifolia Forst seed lots is low (40–50%) even when freshly collected. This study aimed at upgrading the germination performance by
removing non-germinable seeds using petroleum flotation technique. Seeds collected from 19 individual trees in seedling seed
orchards in India were assessed using X-ray to determine the proportion of different seed lot fractions. The feasibility of
petroleum ether as a separation medium was tested. Morphological characters of floating and sunken seeds were further studied
using image analysis technique to examine their effects on the separation efficiency. The X-ray analysis revealed a large
quantity of shrivelled, empty and insect-damaged seeds, altogether accounting 50%, which were the causes of low percentage
germination of un-graded seed lots (48%). Petroleum flotation resulted in 90% germination in the sunken fraction and 4% in
the floating fraction. The separation was distinct for most seed lots, except few seed lots that had relatively low germination
in the sunken fractions and more than 10% germination in the floating fractions. As a whole, petroleum flotation appears to
be a feasible technique to upgrade the germination of C. equisetifolia seed lots, and its efficacy is influenced by wing surface area, seed density and wing quotient of filled and empty seeds. 相似文献
This study develops an analytical method that enables the simulation of the deformation of timber-framed plywood panel dome
structures, of which strength is largely governed by the rigidity of joints. A hybrid truss structure model was employed to
analyze this structure. In this model, we aimed to incorporate the mechanical properties of bolted and nailed joints, which
were employed to build the structures, although the present investigation focused on the deformation characteristics of a
dome in which the panel elements were connected mutually by elastic springs. The results of the theoretical analysis are compared
with those obtained by experiments. The simulated results were found to be in good agreement with the results of the experiments
under similar loading conditions. 相似文献