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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2022, Vol. 58 ›› Issue (10): 1-9.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20221001

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A Potential Productivity-Based Approach of Site Quality Evaluation for Larch Pure Forest and Birch-Aspen Mixed Forest

Guangshuang Duan1,2,3,Yali Zheng3,Liang Hong1,2,3,Xinyu Song3,Liyong Fu1,2,*   

  1. 1. Research Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, CAF Beijing 100091
    2. Key Laboratory of Forest Management and Growth Modeling, National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing 100091
    3. College of Mathematics and Statistics, Xinyang Normal University Xinyang 464000
  • Received:2021-12-26 Online:2022-10-25 Published:2023-04-23
  • Contact: Liyong Fu

Abstract:

Objective: This study was carried out to develop a potential productivity-based approach of site quality evaluation for larch pure forests and birch-aspen mixed forests with the aims to provide scientific evidences for improving forest management level, promoting modern forestry development and ecological civilization construction. Method: Based on the latest compartment data of forest resources of Chongli area, Hebei Province in 2019, the growth models of stand mean height, basal area and volume were constructed for estimating the potential productivity of stand basal area and volume in larch pure forests and birch-aspen mixed forests. Hereafter, we also compared stand potential productivity against stand realized productivity in order to evaluate the computing method and practicability of stand potential productivity. Result: The fitting precision of the growth models of stand mean height, basal area and volume were good, and the stand potential productivity all decreased with the decrease of site quality. Specifically, the stand basal area potential productivity of sample plots of the larch pure forests ranged from 2.06 to 2.11 m2·hm-2a-1, and the stand volume potential productivity was 6.27-12.11 m3·hm-2a-1. Similarly, the stand basal area and volume potential productivity of sample plots of the birch-aspen mixed forests were 1.72-2.28 m2·hm-2a-1 and 4.43-8.72 m3·hm-2a-1, respectively. The stand realized productivity was lower than the stand potential productivity, and the difference between them decreased with the increase of stand average age. However, because of higher values of the stand realized productivity in higher site quality, the difference against the stand potential productivity decreased with the increase of value of site class for young and middle aged forest. Conclusion: For young and middle aged larch pure forests and birch-aspen mixed forests, the stand potential productivity was larger than that of mature and overmature forests, and the differences of stand potential productivity from stand realized productivity were large. However, such differences increased with the decrease of site quality. Therefore, young and middle aged forests tending should be strengthened, and the forests with the medium site quality should be taken into more consideration. Furthermore, these results suggested that potential productivity of stand basal area and volume under basal age could be used to assess site productivity effectively.

Key words: site quality evaluation, potential productivity, realized productivity, larch pure forest, birch-aspen mixed forest

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