Planting a Linear Vegetation Element in Landscape Using a Forestry and Landscaping Method—Can We Tell Which Deliver Greater Success?

Darek Lacina and Petr Kupec ()
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Darek Lacina: Department of Landscape Planning, Faculty of Horticulture, Mendel University in Brno, 691 44 Lednice, Czech Republic
Petr Kupec: Department of Landscape Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technologies, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-20

Abstract: Since the end of the 20th century, the Czech Republic has been developing an ecological network. Areas of ligneous greenery are being established throughout the landscape. The projects use different sizes of planting material: forestry seedlings and landscaping seedlings. In the South Moravian Region, in the vicinity of the village of Šardice, a series of measurements was carried out in 2016–2019 to compare the vitality of the greenery elements established by each of the methods. The height of the seedlings and trunk diameter were measured for the young trees while the shrubs were monitored for the seedling height only. Mortality was recorded successively for all the seedlings. The forestry method demonstrated greater growing vigour as indicated by the ratio of the trunk diameter increment to height while the landscaping method had lower mortality. In the forestry plantations, high mortality was found especially in poplars, oaks and hornbeams while in the landscaping plantations the poplars and oaks had the highest mortality. Elm, sycamore and poplar trees had the highest increments in the forestry plantations (but the latter was planted at different size). In the landscaping plantations, poplar trees (planted at a different size) delivered the best results, followed by maple, elm and lime trees. Shrub mortality was similar in both types of plantings. Hazel had a very high mortality while ivy, privet and honeysuckle had low mortality. Shrub height gain was higher in fenced forestry plantations. In unfenced landscaping plantations, damage by game was evident.

Keywords: ecological stability; planting; seedlings; mortality; growth increment; trunk diameter; Czech Republic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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