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Forestry 2004 77(1):1-8; doi:10.1093/forestry/77.1.1
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The effect of cork-stripping damage on diameter growth of Quercus suber L.

A. Costa1,, H. Pereira1 and A. Oliveira1

1 Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal

The Mediterranean cork oak (Quercus suber L.) agro-forestry system is oriented towards cork production, with cork being extracted from tree stem and branches as planks by cutting with an axe and stripping off. The effect of damage to the tree during cork stripping was studied in cork oaks, weakened by wounding, by following the diameter growth and its seasonality during a 9-year production cycle, and comparing them with healthy cork oaks. Tree wounding decreased diameter growth during the following cycle, e.g. 8.5 mm a–1 and 9.8 mm a–1 for weakened and healthy trees, respectively, mostly in the 2 years immediately following the cork stripping. The beginning of annual growth in spring and the occurrence of the highest increments in June–August were delayed by about 1 month in the weakened trees. The cork produced by weakened trees was reduced by 13 per cent in thickness, with average cork ring widths of 3.3 mm a–1 vs. 3.8 mm a–1 for healthy trees.

Received 2 July 2002.

* Corresponding author. E-mail: augustac{at}isa.utl.pt


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