{"title":"A review of biology, epidemiology and management of Cronartium pini with emphasis on Northern Europe","authors":"B. Samils, J. Stenlid","doi":"10.1080/02827581.2022.2085322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2022.2085322","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Severe outbreaks of Scots pine blister rust, caused by Cronartium pini (Willd.) Jørst., have occurred in several regions in Europe and Asia for at least hundred years. The rust fungus has a complex biology and epidemiology with two different life-cycle forms and five different spore stages. This review summarizes research on: taxonomy and host species, geographical distribution and historic epidemics, life-cycle forms and spore stages, population structure, infection and lesion development, susceptibility of pine provenances, impact of environmental conditions, climate change effects and management. The focus is on conditions in Northern Europe.","PeriodicalId":21352,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44199385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Alexander Pulgarín Díaz, M. Melin, Olli-Pekka Tikkanen
{"title":"Thermal sum drives abundance and distribution range shift of Panolis flammea in Finland","authors":"John Alexander Pulgarín Díaz, M. Melin, Olli-Pekka Tikkanen","doi":"10.1080/02827581.2022.2060303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2022.2060303","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Climate change has assisted the northward range expansion of various forest insect pests, increasing the risk of forest damage in Northern Europe. The pine beauty moth, Panolis flammea, is common in European pine stands with cyclical outbreaks that have damaged thousands of hectares. In the 1970s, its Finnish northern distribution limit was reported to be 64°N. We re-evaluated the northernmost distribution limit of P. flammea in Finland and studied the effect of temperature sum on its abundance. We used pheromone-based traps throughout Finland in 2019–2020. The number of individuals caught in each trap was coupled with previous year thermal sums from the same location, and the relationship between them was analysed using a generalised linear mixed model. P. flammea had spread into northern Finland to 68°51’N, at ∼10.2 km/year, 50 years ahead of earlier predictions. We found a non-linear correlation between thermal sums and P. flammea abundance, increasing from cold to warm areas. Given the climate change scenarios for Fennoscandia, its range and population could continue to increase, allowing it to become another widespread coniferous-forest insect pest. Understanding the effects of temperature on its populations will allow us to model their probable future distribution and population dynamics.","PeriodicalId":21352,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46782454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Magnus C Persson, R. Trubins, L. Eriksson, J. Bergh, J. Sonesson, E. Holmström
{"title":"Precision thinning – a comparison of optimal stand-level and pixel-level thinning","authors":"Magnus C Persson, R. Trubins, L. Eriksson, J. Bergh, J. Sonesson, E. Holmström","doi":"10.1080/02827581.2022.2044902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2022.2044902","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Precision forestry allows decision-making on tree level or pixel level, as compared to stand-level data. However, little is known about the importance of precision in thinning decisions and its long-term effects on within-stand variation, stand economy and growth. In this study, silviculture was optimized for Net Present Value (NPV) in 20 conifer-dominated forest stands in hemi-boreal southern Sweden. The precision-thinning approach, Precision Thinning (PT), is compared with a stand-level approach, Stand Level Thinning (SLT) that is optimized for the same criteria but based on stand-level data. The results suggest no substantial long-term benefit or drawback in implementing thinning decisions based on pixel-level data as compared to stand-level data when optimizing stand economy. The result variables NPV and Mean annual increment of living stem volume (MAInet) were not higher for PT than for SLT. The within-stand variation in basal area (m2/ha−1) was lower at the end of the rotation compared to the start of the simulation for both SLT and PT. At the end of the rotation, SLT had higher variation in basal area compared to PT. However, pixel-level information enables adapting the silviculture to the within-stand variation which may favour other forest management goals than strictly financial goals.","PeriodicalId":21352,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46975651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Bianchi, S. Huuskonen, J. Hynynen, J. Siipilehto, P. Niemistö
{"title":"Tree-level differences in Norway spruce and Scots pine growth after extreme thinning treatments","authors":"S. Bianchi, S. Huuskonen, J. Hynynen, J. Siipilehto, P. Niemistö","doi":"10.1080/02827581.2022.2045348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2022.2045348","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We studied tree-level dynamics (stem slenderness and growth) in spruce- and pine-dominated stands after intermediate commercial thinning of different type (low, crown normal, and crown strict) and intensity (standard and extreme), for two 5-years growth periods. Thinning treatments were included in modeling as numerical variables based on how they changed the stand- and tree-level conditions (in terms of mean diameter of remaining trees and basal area of larger trees removed). Stem slenderness significantly decreased with time for both species and all types only in the extreme intensity (excluding low thinning for pine). Regarding basal area growth, for both species it was slightly higher in low than crown thinning, and much higher in extreme intensity for all thinning types. Pine had a lower basal area growth in the second period after thinning compared with the first one. Height growth differences were not found across treatments. Concluding, extreme thinning increased individual tree basal area growth and decreased stem slenderness for both species compared with thinning carried out according to the standard guidelines. Across types, there were only small differences, hence crown thinning seems a viable option to the widely used low thinning in Fennoscandia.","PeriodicalId":21352,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46991033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strip cutting management in Scots pine stands on peatlands – a financial comparison to rotation forestry","authors":"A. Ahtikoski, H. Hökkä, J. Siipilehto","doi":"10.1080/02827581.2022.2055135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2022.2055135","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Even-aged management (rotation forestry, RF) involves ditch network maintenance (DNM) operations in peatlands. Although the DNM operations contribute tree growth, they have negative environmental effects on watercources. To avoid DNM, a strip cutting (SC) management has been proposed. SC management in peatlands relies on natural regeneration by trees growing on the edge stand next to a clear-cut strip. The width of a cut strip varies, and here 20, 35 and 50 m strip width were applied in three locations in Finland: Akaa (southern), Kuopio (central), and Oulu (northern Finland). Tree growth of an edge stand and sapling stand was modeled with a stand-level model which accounted for the effect of dominant height of the edge stand and variation of shading among alternative strip widths. In southern location, RF financially outperformed SC management with interest rates 2–4%, but with a 5% interest rate and strip with of 35 or 50 m SC management was more beneficial than RF. In central and northern locations RF was better only with a 2% interest rate and with a 20 m strip width. Our results demonstrate that SC management is a financially valid option to apply in pine-dominated peatlands, particularly in northern regions.","PeriodicalId":21352,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42110990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kobra Maleki, R. Astrup, C. Kuehne, J. Mclean, C. Antón-Fernández
{"title":"Stand-level growth models for long-term projections of the main species groups in Norway","authors":"Kobra Maleki, R. Astrup, C. Kuehne, J. Mclean, C. Antón-Fernández","doi":"10.1080/02827581.2022.2056632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2022.2056632","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Stand-level growth and yield models are important tools that support forest managers and policymakers. We used recent data from the Norwegian National Forest Inventory to develop stand-level models, with components for dominant height, survival (number of survived trees), ingrowth (number of recruited trees), basal area, and total volume, that can predict long-term stand dynamics (i.e. 150 years) for the main species in Norway, namely Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), and birch (Betula pubescens Ehrh. and Betula pendula Roth). The data used represent the structurally heterogeneous forests found throughout Norway with a wide range of ages, tree size mixtures, and management intensities. This represents an important alternative to the use of dedicated and closely monitored long-term experiments established in single species even-aged forests for the purpose of building these stand-level models. Model examination by means of various fit statistics indicated that the models were unbiased, performed well within the data range and extrapolated to biologically plausible patterns. The proposed models have great potential to form the foundation for more sophisticated models, in which the influence of other factors such as natural disturbances, stand structure including species mixtures, and management practices can be included.","PeriodicalId":21352,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49332438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life cycle analysis to estimate CO2 e emissions from forest harvesting systems in intensively managed Pinus radiata plantations","authors":"R. Alzamora, Waldo Oviedo, R. Rubilar","doi":"10.1080/02827581.2022.2044901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2022.2044901","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A Life Cycle Analyses (LCA) assessment was evaluated comparing three harvesting systems on intensively managed Pinus radiata (radiata pine) plantations growing in the Biobío Region, Chile. Evaluated systems considered semi-mechanized, mechanized, and tower logging in steep slope forest operations. Our LCA study focused on CO2 e emissions from six harvesting activities: felling, logging, processing, sorting, loading, and transportation, all under the ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 standards. The average and maximum monthly production scenarios were the highest for the semi-mechanized system with 24 and 25.2 kg CO2 e m−3, followed by the tower logging with 23.2 and 24.5 kg CO2 e m−3 and, lastly, the mechanized system with 11 and 12.1 kg CO2 e m−3. Similar to other studies, harvesting phases that contributed the most were logging, loading and transport. Concerning LCA stages, forest equipment operation generated the highest CO2 e level across the three harvesting systems where fuel consumption was the activity that contributed with 76% of CO2 e for the mechanized system, and 50% in the case of the tower logging and semi-mechanized systems. The mechanized system had the highest fuel use efficiency and the lowest CO2 e emissions.","PeriodicalId":21352,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49493007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Successful spruce regenerations – impact of site preparation and the use of variables from digital elevation models in decision-making?","authors":"P. Nordin, E. Olofsson, K. Hjelm","doi":"10.1080/02827581.2022.2028895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2022.2028895","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Various site preparation methods are used in Swedish forestry. However, some methods can lead to unnecessary disturbance, which could be avoided by using variables from digital elevation models in management decisions. The current study aimed to investigate how different site preparation methods, and their intensities, affect Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) regeneration. Additional aims were to clarify how these methods affect soil disturbance and vegetation development, along with how variables from digital elevation models could be used in silvicultural decision-making. Experimental sites were established in southern Sweden to assess five different site preparation treatments with different planting densities: (1) conventional disc trenching 2500 seedlings/ha (DT2500); (2) low intensity disc trenching 1250 seedlings/ha (LDT1250); (3) low intensity disc trenching 2500 seedlings/ha (LDT2500); (4) low-intensity patch-wise 1250 seedlings/ha (PW1250); and (5) patch-wise 2500 seedlings/ha (PW2500). Site preparation intensity had no effect on seedling growth and, survival or vegetation development; the tested treatments differed in terms of soil disturbance. Planting spot properties and weather conditions influenced the seedling performance. DTW and slope could not substantially explain either seedling growth or survival. The results indicate that the choice of site preparation method should consider flexibility when planting while adapting the level of disturbance accordingly.","PeriodicalId":21352,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46735938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Fagerberg, P. Lohmander, O. Eriksson, Jan-ola Olsson, B. Poudel, J. Bergh
{"title":"Evaluation of individual-tree growth models for Picea abies based on a case study of an uneven-sized stand in southern Sweden","authors":"N. Fagerberg, P. Lohmander, O. Eriksson, Jan-ola Olsson, B. Poudel, J. Bergh","doi":"10.1080/02827581.2022.2037700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2022.2037700","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To develop recommendations for tree selection in Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF), access to valid tools for simulating growth at individual tree-level is necessary. To assist efforts to develop such tools, in this study, long-term observation data from two uneven-sized Norway spruce plots in southern Sweden are used to evaluate old and new individual-tree growth models (two established Swedish models, two new preliminary models and included as a reference, a Finnish model). The plots’ historical management records and site conditions are the same, but their last thinning treatment differs. Observed diameter increment at tree-level is investigated in relation to treatment. Individual tree growth residuals of tested models are evaluated in relation to tree diameter, treatment, projection length and sensitivity to the predictor mean stand age. Furthermore, the relations between displayed residuals and basal area local competition are analysed. The analyses indicate that active thinning made annual diameter increment independent of tree diameter above a threshold level, while the absence of thinning supported a concave relationship. All tested models displayed a significant linear bias leading to overestimation of small trees’ growth and increasing underestimations of larger trees’ growth with tree diameter. All distance-independent models displayed residual trends related to local competition.","PeriodicalId":21352,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48377531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epigenetic memory effects in Norway spruce: are they present after the age of two years?","authors":"T. Skrøppa","doi":"10.1080/02827581.2022.2045349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2022.2045349","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Short-term trials on cultivated soil were planted with families of Norway spruce that had shown epigenetic memory effects in early tests up to age two years. Measurements and assessments were made of phenology traits, tree heights and stem defects until age 16 years in these trials. The memory effects of the temperature conditions during embryo development and seed maturation were confirmed for the timing of bud flush and for start and cessation of shoot elongation at age six years. The mean differences in timing of these events caused by temperature treatments were on average less than two days. They were considerably larger for families with strong effects on terminal bud set at the end of the first growing season. The memory effects did not result in a prolonged shoot growth period, nor did they affect height growth. Interaction effects expressed in adaptive traits between factorial treatments of temperature and daylength during seed production were large in the short-term trial and were still present at age nine years. The results presented demonstrate that strong memory effects observed in early tests may also be expressed in phenology traits for at least the next five growing seasons.","PeriodicalId":21352,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45524455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}