Lecture 4 Flashcards
CHOICE OF SPECIES
Considerations
- Native species preferred
- No problem on adaptation
- Less cost of procuring seeds
- Less constraint on social acceptability
- Contributions to tree domestication efforts
- Biodiversity conservation
Native species preferred (5)
- No problem on adaptation
- Less cost of procuring seeds
- Less constraint on social acceptability
- Contributions to tree domestication efforts
- Biodiversity conservation
Done whenever there is going to be a deliberate
attempt to have a large scale planting of a species outside of its natural geographic habitat
SPECIES TRIALS
SPECIES TRIALS
Done whenever there is going to be a deliberate
attempt to have a large scale planting of a species outside of its natural geographic habitat
Provenance Trials
Tests designed to determine best source
of seeds or propagules for large scale
planting operations
Tests designed to determine best source
of seeds or propagules for large scale
planting operations
Provenance Trials
Tests follow the principles observed in the conduct of
Species Trials
Species Trials
Tests follow the principles observed in the conduct of
a field test unlike the Species
Trials which is a nursery/green house tests
Provenance Trials…
Provenance Trials… (#2)
a field test unlike the Species
Trials which is a nursery/green house tests
the first test is replicated already as
the area where the tests will be conducted is not limited in space and the number of provenances to be tested is oftentimes limited
Provenance Trials…
Provenance Trials… (#3)
the first test is replicated already as
the area where the tests will be conducted is not limited in space and the number of provenances to be tested is oftentimes limited
steps in provenance trials
Rangewide Provenance Test >
Restricted Provenance Test >
Provenance Proving Test
1st step in provenance trials
Rangewide Provenance Test
2nd step in provenance trials
Restricted Provenance Test
3rd step in provenance trials
Provenance Proving Test
CONDITION?
Continental to maritime areas
OK
CONDITION?
Maritime to continental areas
NOT OK
CONDITION?
Areas of uniform climates with small fluctuations in rainfall and temperature to areas with severe fluctuations
NOT OK
CONDITION??
MOVEMENT:
high elevation or high latitude sources to low elevations or latitudes and vice versa
NOT OK
CONDITION??
MOVEMENT:
high elevation provenance from low latitude to low elevations at a higher latitudes and vice versa
OK
CONDITION??
MOVEMENT:
Areas with basic soils to areas with acidic soils and vice versa
NOT OK
Determine economic feasibility of growing the species in commercial tree plantations
Pilot Plantations
Pilot Plantations
Determine economic feasibility of growing the species in commercial tree plantations
Determine the susceptibility of exotic
species to pests and diseases once they
are grown in plantations in new
environments.
Biological Risk Assessment
Biological Risk Assessment
Determine the susceptibility of exotic
species to pests and diseases once they
are grown in plantations in new
environments.
SELECTION CRITERIA (3)
- Ecological criteria
- Desired characteristics of trees to look for in the candidate species
- If the species possess these traits, then they are considered as potential species to be planted in the area given its prevailing conditions
STEPS IN THE SPECIES TRIALS
Species Elimination Test
Species Growth Test
Crop Performance Test
1st STEP IN THE SPECIES TRIALS
Species Elimination Test
2nd STEP IN THE SPECIES TRIALS
Species Growth Test
3rd STEP IN THE SPECIES TRIALS
Crop Performance Test
Species Elimination Test (4)
• Nursery trial
• Considers as many species as possible in the long list
• Nonreplicated test
• Performance indicator: survival
- Nursery trial
- Considers as many species as possible in the long list
- Nonreplicated test
- Performance indicator: survival
Species Elimination Test
- Nursery trial
- Replicated trial
- Excellent performers in SET carried over to SGT
- Performance Indicators:
- Survival
- Growth
- Height
- diameter
Species Growth Test
Species Growth Test (4)
- Nursery trial
- Replicated trial
- Excellent performers in SET carried over to SGT
- Performance Indicators:
- Survival
- Growth
- Height
- diameter
- Nursery trial
- Replicated trial
- Excellent performers in SGT carried over to CPT
- Performance Indicators
- Survival
- Growth
- Response to standard nursery cultural management prescriptions
Crop Performance Test
Performance Indicators
- Survival
- Growth
- Response to standard nursery cultural management prescriptions
Crop Performance Test
Crop Performance Test performance indicators
- Survival
- Growth
- Response to standard nursery cultural management prescriptions
Excellent performers in SGT carried over
to CPT
Crop Performance Test performance indicators
Species Growth Test Performance Indicators:
- Survival
- Growth
- Height
- diameter
Excellent performers in SET carried over to SGT
Species Growth Test
Preference for native species
SHELTERBELT