Taxation indicators of the Norway spruce plus trees in the clone archive in the Nizhny Novgorod region

The taxation indicators of clones of the Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karsten) plus trees were studied in the clone archive No. 3 on the territory of the Semenovsky district forestry of the Nizhny Novgorod region. It was created in 1984 by grafted seedlings at the age of 2 years. The source of the graft was plus trees growing in natural plantings of the same region in the types of forest growing conditions B2 and B3. Their age at the time of selection ranged from 60 years to 140 years, and the taxation indicators were: height – from 24 m to 70 m; diameter – from 24 cm to 35 cm. The seating arrangement was 3×3 m, the clone mixing scheme was ordinary with the initial repeatability of each orthet by 3...12 ramets. The initial area was 0.4 hectares, the type of forest conditions on it corresponded to category B2. The terrain of the site is flat with gray forest soils. It has geographical coordinates N56°44'18.97" E44°20'49.29", is assigned to the area of coniferous-deciduous (mixed) forests of the European part of the Russian Federation and is included in the zone of coniferous-deciduous forests. The forest growing conditions of the region are quite favorable for the growth and seed-bearing of Norway spruce. The collection of primary forestry information was carried out by a stationary field method with a continuous enumeration of trees over the entire area of the clone archive in compliance with the principle of the only logical difference, typicality, suitability, reliability and expediency of the experiment. The heterogeneity of the vegetative offspring of the plus trees of the Norway spruce was noted in terms of taxation indicators, which manifested itself both at the level of differences between groups of the same name clones, and within each of them. The plus trees of the Norway spruce, represented by their vegetative offspring as part of the examined clone archive, differed significantly among themselves in terms of the main taxation indicators. In terms of trunk height, the highest average (19.83±1.14 m), in the frame of the K-102 orthet, exceeded the lowest similar indicator (10.50±1.85 m) in clones with the K-100 index, by 1.88 times or by 9.33 m. The average generalized for the entire data set reached 14.71±0.34 m with the ratio between absolute limits (max = 23 m; min = 3.50 m) both 6.57 and an absolute range equal to 19.50 m. The variability of the trait, at the same time, corresponded to an increased level on the Mamaev scale (Cv = 28.41 %).

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