%0 Article
%T Spatial growth model for Scots pine on drained peatland.
%A Miina, Jari
%D 1994
%J Silva Fennica
%V 28
%N 1
%R doi:10.14214/sf.a9159
%U https://silvafennica.fi/article/5525
%X <p>A spatial growth model is presented for Scots pine (<em>Pinus sylvestris</em> L.) on a dwarf-shrub pine mire drained 14 years earlier. The growth model accounts for the variation in tree diameter growth owing to the competition between trees, the distance between tree and ditch, and the time passed since drainage. The model was used to study the effect of tree arrangement on the post-drainage growth of a pine stand. Clustering of trees decreased the volume growth by 9–20% as compared to a regular spatial distribution. Stand volume growth, for a given number of stems, was at its maximum and variation in diameter growth at its minimum when the stand density on the ditch border was 1.5–5 higher than midway between two adjacent ditches.</p>