Small-scale regeneration of sessile oak stands in the conditions of multifunctional forestry

Alexander Aguirre

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea) it is one of the species with economic and ecological importance, due to its good quality of wood and its share in the biodiversity of Czech forests. The natural proportion of oak in the Czech Republic is estimated to be about 19% of the forest area. The natural regeneration of Sessile oak has been studied and it is still in the process of understanding since natural regeneration is very rare, especially in Czech Republic. Kunratický Forest is a recreational forest with an approach of uneven age forest, it is one of the forests with more frequent visits given its location and the biodiversity it presents. The forest soils present great ecological requirements for the seedlings of Sessile oak. The study was taken on the autumn 2017. The study presents 3 Research plot with different features. It was possible to obtain density of each research plot and specie composition. Other aspect was taken too as height structure, quality of regeneration, the effect of the game in the regeneration density and for last the micro site heterogeneity. As result obtained there is many abiotic and biotic factors that make the survive of the seedlings of Sessile oak hard. The availability of the light inside of the gap play a important roll for the growing and quality of the stands and future mature tree.

Keywords

sessile oak, gap regeneration, woody plant quality

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 19. 4. 2018

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Lukáš Bílek, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences

Bachelor programme / field:
Forestry / Forestry