Morphometric traits of Picea abies L. and Pinus sylvestris L. on the copper dump-field Maximilián in Špania Dolina (Starohorské vrchy Mts., Slovakia)

  • Tomáš Štrba Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology and Ecology, Tajovského str. 40, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
  • Štefan Aschenbrenner SVP, š.p., OZ Banská Bystrica, Partizánska cesta str. 69, 974 98 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.160385

Abstract

The main aim of the work was to determine difference in length of needles and annual wood increments of Pinus sylvestris L. and Picea abies L. on the dump-field and for comparison on referential site. We performed 500 measurements of needles for each tree species and for each study area. The annual wood increments were measured on wood bores from five tree individuals from each species and from both study areas – dump-field and referential site. Student t-test and indicators of central values evaluated differences of the measured attributes. The results show statistically significant difference at 99% level of confidence for both attributes – length of needles and annual wood increments. The results support the hypothesis about influence of heavy metals on the plants growing.

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Fig. 1. Graphical comparison of length of the needles from the heap and reference site (RS) for the Picea abies (A) and Pinus sylvestris (B).
Published
2014-04-01
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ŠTRBA, Tomáš; ASCHENBRENNER, Štefan. Morphometric traits of Picea abies L. and Pinus sylvestris L. on the copper dump-field Maximilián in Špania Dolina (Starohorské vrchy Mts., Slovakia). Modern Phytomorphology, [S.l.], v. 6, p. 11-14, apr. 2014. ISSN 2227-9555. Available at: <http://ojs.phytomorphology.org/index.php/MP/article/view/97>. Date accessed: 11 apr. 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.160385.
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