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A study was established in 1979 to evaluate the effects of burning, chopping, and bedding on grwoth of slash pine (Pinus elliottii Engelm.) plantations. In addition, a fertilizer and a complete vegetation control treatment were superimposed on the site preparation methods to test their impacts and to evaluate interaction. The study was balanced over two flatwoods soil groups; Spodosols and non-Spodosols. Complete vegetation control provided the most consistenetly dramatic improvement in slash pine growth. Fertilization and bedding were also significant treatments regardless of soil group. There was a significant soil group x treatment interaction for height, probably due to the adverse effects of burning on spodosols. Chopping improved pine height growth on non-Spodosols, but had no significant effect on Spodosol heights. Bedding, fertilization, and complete vegetation control continued to significantly improve growth on spodosols from ages 5 to 8. On non-Spodosols, only complete vegetation control continued to provide a significant growth response from age 5 to age 8. © Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, MD. Abstract reproduced by permission.
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- age classes
- artificial regeneration
- biomass
- brush
- competition
- fertilization
- flatwoods
- forest management
- herbaceous vegetation
- herbicides
- land management
- north Florida
- nutrient cycling
- pine forests
- Pinus elliottii
- plant growth
- plantations
- post fire recovery
- regeneration
- site treatments
- size classes
- slash
- slash pine
- soils
- south Georgia
- statistical analysis
- weed control
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