JOURNAL OF NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY ›› 2023, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (2): 87-94.doi: 10.12302/j.issn.1000-2006.202106026

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Effects of forking on the crown morphology, growth and form quality of Taxus chinensis var. mairei

OU Jiande()   

  1. Mingxi Forestry Bureau, Fujian Province,Sanming 365200, China
  • Received:2021-06-21 Revised:2021-08-23 Online:2023-03-30 Published:2023-03-28

Abstract:

【Objective】 The effects of forking on the crown morphology, growth and quality form of Taxus chinensis var. mairei were studied for multi-stem and non-multi-stem tree types. 【Method】 A standard plot was established in a 15-year-old T. chinensis var. mairei plantation in Mingxi County, Fujian Province, and differences in the crown morphology, growth and quality form between multi-stemed trees and non multi-stemed trees were investigated and analyzed. The hierarchical distributions of T.chinensis var. mairei DBH, tree height, crown width, crown shape rate and crown rate with different multi-stemed tree types were analyzed, and the relationship between crown morphological characteristics and the growth and form quality indices of different forking types were analyzed by the path analysis. 【Result】 Forking significantly inhibited the crown length, crown shape rate, and crown ratio of T. chinensis var. mairei, but had no significant effect on crown width. Forking significantly promoted the ground diameter, DBH, tree height, individual volume, height under branch and overall performances of growth and form quality of T. chinensis var. mairei, but had no significant effect on taperingness or stem completeness. The hierarchical distributions of DBH, tree height, crown shape rate and crown rate among different multi-stemed tree types were significantly different. The relationships between DBH, tree height, individual volume, overall performances, and crown morphological characteristics among different multi-stemed tree types were significantly different. 【Conclusion】 Forking changed the hierarchical distributions of DBH, tree height, crown shape rate and crown ratio. The forking effects on DBH, tree height, crown shape rate and crown ratio were realized by changing the distribution proportions of the high and low classification intervals. Forking changed the relationships between the DBH, individual volume, overall performances, and crown morphological characteristics of T. chinensis var. mairei, and the corresponding crown morphological regulation measures were different. The key and direction of crown morphological regulation to promote overall performances in multi-stemed trees is to increase crown shape rates; in non multi-stemed trees it is to promote the crown width.

Key words: Taxus chinensis var. mairei, forking, growth, form quality, crown morphology

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