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Forestry Advance Access originally published online on June 19, 2008
Forestry 2008 81(4):543-557; doi:10.1093/forestry/cpn032
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Effects of pre-commercial thinning on transpiration in young post-fire maritime pine stands

E. Jiménez1,*, J. A. Vega1, P. Pérez-Gorostiaga1, P. Cuiñas1, T. Fonturbel1, C. Fernández1, J. Madrigal2, C. Hernando2 and M. Guijarro2

1 Centro de Investigación e Información Ambiental (CINAM) – Lourizán, Xunta de Galicia, PO Box 127, 36080 Pontevedra, Spain
2 Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) – CIFOR, PO Box 8111, 28080 Madrid, Spain

* Corresponding author. E-mail: ejimenez.cifal{at}siam-cma.org


  Abstract

In the present study, the effect of heavy thinning on soil water content was investigated in relation to water use in an 8-year-old post-fire-regenerated maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) stand in northwestern Spain over two growing seasons. Three different treatment levels were selected: control (unthinned, 40 200 saplings ha–1), intense thinning (leaving 3850 saplings ha–1) and very intense thinning (leaving 1925 saplings ha–1); sap flow measurements were made on 10 saplings in each treatment throughout two growing seasons following thinning. Soil water availability in thinned plots was 1.8 times higher in the first growing season and 2.5 times higher in the second season, than in the control plots. Sap flow density in very intensely thinned plots was lower than in the control plots 3–5 months after treatment. However, for the whole study period the mean sap flow density in saplings was higher in thinned plots than in unthinned plots (about double in the first growing season and 1.7 times higher in the second). Monthly transpiration at plot level was 8.8 and 4.4 times higher in control plots, than in very intensely and intensely thinned plots, respectively, in the first growing season, and 4.5 and 2.8 in the second season. Very intense thinning did not result in significant differences in saplings sap flow and transpiration at plot level, compared with intense thinning. Some consequences of these results for the management of such juvenile stands are discussed.

Received 30 August 2007.
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