Growth, productivity and preservation of spruce ecotypes in Klinsk-Dmitrov low ridge
- Authors: Mel’nik P.G.1
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- BMSTU (Mytishchi branch)
- Issue: Vol 29, No 5 (2025)
- Pages: 98-109
- Section: Forest crops, breeding and genetics
- Published: 16.10.2025
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/2542-1468/article/view/706239
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18698/2542-1468-2025-5-98-109
- ID: 706239
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The results of a study of spruce ecotypes in the Senezhsky district of the Klin forestry branch of the Mosoblles State Autonomous Institution in the Moscow Region, located within the Klinsko-Dmitrov low ridge of the Smolensk-Moscow Upland, are presented. The presented range of tested provenance is quite wide and in the meridian direction covers the range of the genus Picea from the Kaliningrad region (Russia) and the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) to the Novosibirsk and Tomsk regions (Western Siberia, Russia). The trunks height range of the Yonishka (26,4 m), Strugo-Krasnensky (26,2 m), Sharangsky (25,9 m), Yaunelgavsky (25,7 m), Vygodsky (25,6 m) and Kumensky (25,5 m) ecotypes growing according to the Ib class of bonity has been established. Ecotypes from the Grodno, Brest and Minsk regions of Belarus, the Pskov region of Russia and the Lviv region of Ukraine have a high stock of stem wood. A high average increase in stock was recorded for the leading provenances in terms of stem wood productivity. An assessment of the forestry effect is given based on a complex indicator of the expediency of introducing specific spruce varieties. Vital ecotypes of spruce have been identified both in Russia and abroad.
About the authors
Petr G. Mel’nik
BMSTU (Mytishchi branch)
Author for correspondence.
Email: melnik_petr@bk.ru
Cand. Sci. (Agricultural), Associate Professor
Russian Federation, 1, 1st Institutskaya st., 141005, Mytishchi, Moscow reg.References
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