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<p>The aim of the research was to identify the influence of environmental factors inherent in the alluvial and displaced sands of the study region on the growth of the Jack pine and the prospects for its cultivation. We found that the success of growth of Jack pine seedlings on sandy soils depends on a set of factors, which include the presence or absence, in the rhizosphere of sand, of humus impurities and genetic horizons of zonal soils, silty or loamy layers, soil density and composition of pine stands formed in the cultivation. On alluvial sands, sparse forests of Jack pine and Scots pine with a density of 0.3 units were formed. The yield of seeds from Jack pine cones was 1–2% higher than the normative values, and the mass of 1000 seeds was 50% higher. Jack pine seedlings grow according to I class of productivity on displaced sands, with an admixture of humus mass and remnants of genetic horizons of zonal soils at the root depth. In the rhizosphere of the stand, the roots of Jack pine seedlings occupied 78% of the mass of all roots that inhabited a metre-thick sand. Jack pine seedlings that fall under the canopy of Scots pine fall out of the plantations due to drying, which indicates their demand for light and appropriateness of growing Jack pine in solitary plantings or in mixed low-density plantations with Scots pine.</p>
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The aim of the research was to identify the influence of environmental factors inherent in the alluvial and displaced sands of the study region on the growth of the Jack pine and the prospects for its cultivation. We found that the success of growth of Jack pine seedlings on sandy soils depends on a set of factors, which include the presence or absence, in the rhizosphere of sand, of humus impurities and genetic horizons of zonal soils, silty or loamy layers, soil density and composition of pine stands formed in the cultivation. On alluvial sands, sparse forests of Jack pine and Scots pine with a density of 0.3 units were formed. The yield of seeds from Jack pine cones was 1–2% higher than the normative values, and the mass of 1000 seeds was 50% higher. Jack pine seedlings grow according to I class of productivity on displaced sands, with an admixture of humus mass and remnants of genetic horizons of zonal soils at the root depth. In the rhizosphere of the stand, the roots of Jack pine seedlings occupied 78% of the mass of all roots that inhabited a metre-thick sand. Jack pine seedlings that fall under the canopy of Scots pine fall out of the plantations due to drying, which indicates their demand for light and appropriateness of growing Jack pine in solitary plantings or in mixed low-density plantations with Scots pine.

Prospects of cultivation of Jack pine (<italic>Pinus banksiana</italic> Lamb.) on sandy soils of natural–technogenic origin in Kyiv Polissia

Educational and Scientific Center ‘Institute of Biology and Medicine’ of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Department of Forest Restoration and Meliorations

Kyiv State Administration, Department of Ecology and Natural Resources

State Agency of Forest Resources of Ukraine

State Enterprise ‘Vyshche-Dubechnia Forestry’

Folia Forestalia Polonica

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Prospects of cultivation of Jack pine ( Lamb.) on sandy soils of natural–technogenic origin in Kyiv Polissia

The aim of the research was to identify the influence of environmental factors inherent in the alluvial and displaced sands of the study region on the growth...

Prospects of cultivation of Jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) on sandy soils of natural–technogenic origin in Kyiv Polissia

Article Category: Original Article

Published Online: May 27, 2022

Page range: 90 - 99

Received: Jan 16, 2022

Accepted: Feb 08, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ffp-2022-0009

Keywords
biometric indicators, displaced sands, sandy soils, seed production, soil occupancy by roots, quality indicators of seeds

© 2022 Fedir Brovko et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Prospects of cultivation of Jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) on sandy soils of natural–technogenic origin in Kyiv Polissia

Article Category: Original Article

Published Online: May 27, 2022

Page range: 90 - 99

Received: Jan 16, 2022

Accepted: Feb 08, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ffp-2022-0009

Keywordsbiometric indicators, displaced sands, sandy soils, seed production, soil occupancy by roots, quality indicators of seeds

© 2022 Fedir Brovko et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
biometric indicators, displaced sands, sandy soils, seed production, soil occupancy by roots, quality indicators of seeds