caa a22 4500 463218264 CHVBK 20180405153204.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11056-007-9044-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11056-007-9044-9 Long-term soil and shortleaf pine responses to site preparation ripping [Elektronische Daten] [David Gwaze, Mark Johanson, Carl Hauser] A shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) ripping study was established by the Missouri Department of Conservation in March 1988 at the Logan Creek Conservation Area, USA. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effects of ripping on soil chemical and physical properties, on free-to-grow status, and on survival and growth of planted shortleaf pine seedlings. After 16years, ripping increased exchangeable calcium; however, it had no long-term effects on soil particle size, organic carbon, pH, exchangeable potassium and exchangeable magnesium. Ripping increased the percentage of free-to-grow saplings by 3.8% after two growing seasons. Ripping improved survival by 4% during the 1st three growing seasons and by 7.1% at age 16. After two growing seasons, ripping improved crown spread by 13.6%, height by 14.2%, diameter by 14%, and volume by 41.2%. At age 16, ripping no longer had an effect on shortleaf pine height and had reduced diameter by 5.3% and volume by 11.0%. Our results suggest that ripping 1) had no effect on long-term physical properties or chemical properties of the soil, 2) had no effect on the number of free-to-grow seedlings, and 3) produced short-term benefits on survival and growth of planted shortleaf pine. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Soil physical properties nationallicence Soil chemical properties nationallicence Free-to-grow nationallicence Subsoiling nationallicence Pinus echinata nationallicence Gwaze David Missouri Department of Conservation, 1110 S. College Avenue, 65201, Columbia, MO, USA aut Johanson Mark Missouri Department of Conservation, P.O. Box 248, 63080, Sullivan, MO, USA aut Hauser Carl Missouri Department of Conservation, 2901 W. Truman Blvd, 65102, Jefferson City, MO, USA aut New Forests Kluwer Academic Publishers 34/2(2007-09-01), 143-152 0169-4286 34:2<143 2007 34 11056 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-007-9044-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-007-9044-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gwaze David Missouri Department of Conservation, 1110 S. College Avenue, 65201, Columbia, MO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Johanson Mark Missouri Department of Conservation, P.O. Box 248, 63080, Sullivan, MO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hauser Carl Missouri Department of Conservation, 2901 W. Truman Blvd, 65102, Jefferson City, MO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Forests Kluwer Academic Publishers 34/2(2007-09-01), 143-152 0169-4286 34:2<143 2007 34 11056 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer