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Relation Between Individual Tree Mortality and Tree Characteristics in a Polluted and Non-Polluted Environmentx

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Data on individual tree mortality in relatively healthy (Berezinskiy biosphere reserve) and damaged (surroundings of the mineral fertilizer plant ‘Achema’) even-aged Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stands are presented. Tree size and competition intensity were found to be the most significant predictors of individual tree mortality in all age groups of the relatively healthy Scots pine stands, however, an essential reduction in the closeness of relations between the tree mortality rate and these variables was determined with the aging of stands. An exponential decrease in tree mortality probability with an increase of tree size is characteristic for trees suffering different competition intensity, however, this decrease becomes much more pronounced as the competition pressure increases. The relations of different tree and stand variables with tree mortality probability have been found to become much weaker in the polluted environment. An exponential increase in tree mortality probability with an increase of crown defoliation was characteristic of damaged Scots pine stands, however, the rate of the increase was different in different age and diameter classes. The impact of crown defoliation on tree mortality rate increased with the aging of stands. At the same defoliation level, individual tree mortality probability was much higher for smaller suppressed trees, however, a relative increase in tree mortality probability along with an increase of crown defoliation was more pronounced for dominant trees. Conclusion: a higher mortality of damaged (defoliated) trees should be considered while assessing losses in forest productivity in a polluted environment.

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos 8, LT-44404, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Romualdas Juknys & Jone Vencloviene

  2. Environmental Research Centre, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos 8, LT-44404, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Nerijus Jurkonis

  3. Faculty of Forestry, Lithuanian Agricultural University, LT-53361, Kaunas Region, Lithuania

    Edmundas Bartkevicius & Janina Sepetiene

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Juknys, R., Vencloviene, J., Jurkonis, N. et al. Relation Between Individual Tree Mortality and Tree Characteristics in a Polluted and Non-Polluted Environmentx. Environ Monit Assess 121, 519–542 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9152-y

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