The effects of maintenance work on the growth of sprucle seedlings in the nursery

Abstract

Lately, the regeneration and expansion of forests has been carried out using artificial interventions, the most suitable method being plantations, using high-quality forest seedlings. In order to achieve this, maintenance work on nursery crops plays an important role.

Spruce was one of the first species to start breeding in Europe. This species is one of the most important ones, covering an area of approximately 30 million hectares at European level, and in Romania it covers an area of approximately 1.37 million hectares.

The present work aims to study the effects of maintenance works on the growth of spruce seedlings in nurseries. For this study, experiments were carried out in the

Ursu Nursery of the Groșii Țibleșului Forestry Park.

In order to determine the effects of certain maintenance works on the development of spruce seedlings, a number of 6 test squares were made, where their diameter and height were analyzed. Two measurements were carried out, the first one at the beginning of the study, in 2022, and the second one in 2023, at the end of the study.