Acorn size is more important than nursery fertilization for outplanting performance of Quercus variabilis container seedlings
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/41191DOI: 10.1007/s13595-018-0785-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-018-0785-8
ISSN: 1286-4560
Date
2019Funders
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Comunidad de Madrid
Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities
Bibliographic citation
Annals of Forest Science, 2019, v. 76, n. , p. -
Keywords
Acorn size
Nursery fertilization
Nutrient concentration
Outplanting performance
Seedling growth
Survival
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgrement/NSFC//31670638/ES//
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/HEBUT//2017PT02/ES//
info:eu.repo/grantAgreement/CAM//S2013%2FMAE-2719/ES/RESTAURACIÓN Y CONSERVACIÓN DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS MEDITERRÁNEOS: RESPUESTA FRENTE AL CAMBIO GLOBAL/REMEDINAL-3
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CGL2014-53308-P/ES/SERVICIOS DE LA AVIFAUNA (HIGH MOBILE LINK SPECIES) EN MOSAICOS AGROFORESTALES: REGENERACION FORESTAL Y REGULACION DE PLAGAS/
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
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Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
Small acorns are usually discarded for seedling cultivation because they reduce plant quality. This,however, can potentially reduce genetic diversity of plantations. The use of small acorns will result in the production ofa higher proportion of small seedlings containing low nutrient levels and having poor outplanting performance in oakcontainer seedlings. Nursery fertilization partially offsets the negative effect of small acorns on seedling attributes in thenursery but not on outplanting performance.Small acorns result in low-quality seedlings and so are usually discarded in artificial regeneration programs of oakspecies. This can potentially reduce genetic diversity of plantations. Nursery fertilization may compensate for the low quality of small-acorn seedlings.To assess whether nursery fertilization interacts with Quercus variabilis acorn size to determine seedling morphology and nutrition in the nursery and outplanting performance.Methods Acorns of three size classes were used to cultivate seedlings with or without fertilization. Seedling emergence, nursery morphology and nutrient status, and outplanting survival and growth were measured.
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