Restoration of Declining Spruce Stands in the Czech Republic: a Bioeconomic View on Use of Silver Birch in Case of Small Forest Owners

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Restoration of Declining Spruce Stands in the Czech Republic: a Bioeconomic View on Use of Silver Birch in Case of Small Forest Owners

Original language description

Norway spruce (Picea abies) and in many places also Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) stands in the Czech Republic are affected by dieback, which has become more prevalent in the last five years. Forest owners have to deal with the restoration of dieback-affected stands. For small forest owners this problem is urgent as often their entire forest property is affected by dieback. Here we summarize the results of several studies from the Czech Republic and provides an operationally feasible solution applicable also for small forest owners. We propose a change in the common view of Silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) as a weed tree species towards seeing this species as an economically interesting alternative. The utilization of birch for restoration of dieback-affected stands can be an operationally applicable solution with a rather short standard rotation period of around 50 to 60 years. Lowering the rotation period up to 20 years does not lead to higher expected economic efficiency. Studies have shown that

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Austrian Journal of Forest Science

ISSN

0379-5292

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

138

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

375-394

UT code for WoS article

000740702900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85122881398