The Destructive Static Tree-Pulling Test Provides Reliable Estimates of the Soil-Root Plate of Eastern Baltic Silver Birch (Betula pendula Roth.).

ABSTRACT: Under the intensifying cyclonic activity, the wind resistance of European forests could be increased through science-based adaptive forest management, which requires the quantification of tree stability. In this regard, the dimensions of the soil-root plate can be directly attributed to tree wind resistance; however, naturally uprooted trees might be a biased source of information for the evaluation of adaptive measures due to uncontrolled conditions and uneven sample size. Therefore, the dimensions of the soil-root plates of naturally windthrown silver birch trees (Betula pendula Roth.) are compared to artificially overturned trees under a static tree-pulling test in Eastern Baltic region. The application of static tree-pulling overestimated the dimensions of the soil-root plates o

SUBMITTER: Krisans O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9182673 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature