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- Title
Effects of thinning on Calligonum arborescens growth and soil water-salt distribution in Tarim Desert Highway shelterbelt, Xinjiang of Northwest China.
- Authors
ZHANG Jian-guo; LI Ying-gang; XU Xin-wen; LEI Jia-qiang; LI Sheng-yu
- Abstract
In order to understand the effects of thinning on the growth of Calligonum arborescens and the soil water-salt distribution in Tarim Desert Highway shelterbelt, a thinning experiment was conducted on an aged and declined C. arborescens woodland in a demonstration section of the shelter-belt, with the growth of C. arborescens and the soil water-salt distribution monitored. Thinning had no effects on the phenophase of C. arborescens, but after thinning, the growth of the current year plant height, crown width, ground diameter, and new branch length of reserved trees was larger than that of the control, and the increment was in the order of planting space 2 m×1 m > 1 m×1 m > the control, with significant differences among the treatments. The assimilation branch surface area in treatments 2 m×1 m and 1 m×1 m were 5. 97 m2 and 5. 22 m2 per plant, respectively, being significantly larger than the control (3. 1 m2 per plant). The soil moisture content in 0-160 cm layer was significantly higher in treatments 2 m×1 m and 1 m×1 m than in the control, and increased obviously with thinning intensity. The soil salt content was in the order of control > planting space 1 m×1 m > 2 m×1 m, and the differences among the treatments were significant. It was suggested that the best reserved plant density after thinning was planting space 2 m×1 m.
- Subjects
SOIL moisture; FOREST thinning; SOIL salinity; PLANTING; RAINFALL
- Publication
Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology / Yingyong Shengtai Xuebao, 2012, Vol 23, Issue 9, p2377
- ISSN
1001-9332
- Publication type
Article