PRODUCTIVITY OF COMMON OSIER (SALIX VIMINALIS L.) PLANTATIONS IN ARENOSOLS AND HISTOSOLS – MARGINAL CASE STUDY IN LITHUANIA

Abstract

Productivity of two common osier (Salix viminalis L.) plantations in two different regions of Lithuania was marginally studied in 2014. The regions where the studies on common osier plantations have been done differed in soil groups. For that, the main importance of the study was to identify soil group typological parameters as well as to describe soil chemical characteristics. Further, it was important to estimate the volume of common osier biomass and to assess the impact of different soil parameters on osier biomass productivity. The obtained results let to exclude the importance of soil group as well as of soil typological unit on the productivity of common osier plantations in different regions. Thus, it was found that soil density is the main factor influencing the growth of common osier and it was optimal in studied Histosol (in South West of Lithuania). However, organic carbon and total nitrogen concentrations were the main parameters having impact on common osier productivity in Arenosols (in Western Lithuania).

Keywords: common osier, mobile P₂O₅ and K₂O, organic carbon, productivity of plantations, soil density, soil group, soil pH, total nitrogen.

Article DOI: http://doi.org/10.15544/RD.2015.080