Monitoring of spruce stands in the Czerwona Woda river catchment of the Stołowe Mountains National Park

• Main Authors: Strzeliński Paweł, Turski Mieczysław
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2019-03-01
• Series: Folia Forestalia Polonica: Series A - Forestry
• Subjects: tree biometrics; model trees; kraft classes
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/ffp-2019-0009
• ISSN: 0071-6677; 2199-5907

In the spring of 2017, Stołowe Mountains National Park started a research program related to the protection of water resources. The research program was started because of, among others, the growing problems of water resources and the dying of spruce trees. One of the projects commissioned by the Park was ‘Monitoring the impact of renaturisation and hydrological status on changes in the biomass of trees and stands’. The monitoring covered spruce stands growing along the main watercourse of the Park (the Czerwona Woda). As a part of the study, three rectangular surfaces (from 0.45 to 0.50 ha) and 10 circular areas (0.04 ha each) were established. On fenced rectangular surfaces, 10 model trees were selected using the Draudt method. They were monitored using hemispheric cameras (changes in crowns), dendrometers (changes in the circumference of stems) and minirhizotronami (changes in the root layer). In addition to the measurements of all the trees on the surface, imaging with terrestrial laser scanning and hemispherical images was done.