Claim · model-written summary
Conversion of simple coppices and coppice with standards to high forests continues in parts of Europe.
- Outcome
- conversion of simple coppices and coppice-with-standards to high forests is continuinge0
- Setting
- Europee0
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Verbatim
e0“In different parts of Europe, conversion of simple coppices and coppice-with-standards to high forests is continuing.”
t0“Sessile oak”
Title
Management of sessile oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.), a major forest species in Europe
Valeriu-Norocel Nicolescu; Torsten Vor; Robert Brus; et al. Journal of Forestry Research 2025. doi:10.1007/s11676-025-01868-1
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation Sessile oak is widely distributed across most of Europe, particularly hills and lower mountain ranges.
- Observation Sessile oak grows across a broad range of soils and elevations to 2200 m, particularly in Atlantic and sub-Mediterranean climates.
- Observation Sessile oak is sensitive to low winter temperatures, frosts and high summer temperatures.
- Observation Sessile oak forms pure and mixed stands with several broadleaved species.
- Mechanism Broadleaved understorey species promote natural shedding of lower oak branches and protect the trunk against epicormic branches.
- Observation Sessile oak is long lived, light demanding and wind firm, associated with its root architecture.
- Observation Sessile oak can regenerate by seed or stump shoots in several forest systems.
- Observation Sessile oak forests are managed in regular and irregular silvicultural systems.
- Recommendation Young naturally regenerated stands are kept dense through weeding, release cutting and cleaning to support natural pruning.
- Observation Sessile oak plantations commonly have densities of 4000 to 6000 plants per hectare.
- Recommendation Mature stand management focuses crown thinning on final crop trees, usually no more than 100 per hectare.
- Recommendation Mature stand management targets large, high quality trees at rotation ages generally above 120 years.
- Observation The authors expect sessile oak to gain importance in future European forests because of disturbance, drought and heat resistance.