caa a22 4500 467904251 CHVBK 20180406152829.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-005-9152-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-005-9152-y Relation Between Individual Tree Mortality and Tree Characteristics in a Polluted and Non-Polluted Environmentx [Elektronische Daten] [Romualdas Juknys, Jone Vencloviene, Nerijus Jurkonis, Edmundas Bartkevicius, Janina Sepetiene] Data on individual tree mortality in relatively healthy (Berezinskiy biosphere reserve) and damaged (surroundings of the mineral fertilizer plant ‘Achema') even-aged Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stands are presented. Tree size and competition intensity were found to be the most significant predictors of individual tree mortality in all age groups of the relatively healthy Scots pine stands, however, an essential reduction in the closeness of relations between the tree mortality rate and these variables was determined with the aging of stands. An exponential decrease in tree mortality probability with an increase of tree size is characteristic for trees suffering different competition intensity, however, this decrease becomes much more pronounced as the competition pressure increases. The relations of different tree and stand variables with tree mortality probability have been found to become much weaker in the polluted environment. An exponential increase in tree mortality probability with an increase of crown defoliation was characteristic of damaged Scots pine stands, however, the rate of the increase was different in different age and diameter classes. The impact of crown defoliation on tree mortality rate increased with the aging of stands. At the same defoliation level, individual tree mortality probability was much higher for smaller suppressed trees, however, a relative increase in tree mortality probability along with an increase of crown defoliation was more pronounced for dominant trees. Conclusion: a higher mortality of damaged (defoliated) trees should be considered while assessing losses in forest productivity in a polluted environment. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 crown defoliation nationallicence logistic regression nationallicence pollution nationallicence tree mortality nationallicence Juknys Romualdas Department of Environmental Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos 8, LT-44404, Kaunas, Lithuania aut Vencloviene Jone Department of Environmental Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos 8, LT-44404, Kaunas, Lithuania aut Jurkonis Nerijus Environmental Research Centre, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos 8, LT-44404, Kaunas, Lithuania aut Bartkevicius Edmundas Faculty of Forestry, Lithuanian Agricultural University, LT-53361, Kaunas Region, Lithuania aut Sepetiene Janina Faculty of Forestry, Lithuanian Agricultural University, LT-53361, Kaunas Region, Lithuania aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Springer Netherlands 121/1-3(2006-10-01), 519-542 0167-6369 121:1-3<519 2006 121 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9152-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9152-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Juknys Romualdas Department of Environmental Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos 8, LT-44404, Kaunas, Lithuania aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vencloviene Jone Department of Environmental Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos 8, LT-44404, Kaunas, Lithuania aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jurkonis Nerijus Environmental Research Centre, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos 8, LT-44404, Kaunas, Lithuania aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bartkevicius Edmundas Faculty of Forestry, Lithuanian Agricultural University, LT-53361, Kaunas Region, Lithuania aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sepetiene Janina Faculty of Forestry, Lithuanian Agricultural University, LT-53361, Kaunas Region, Lithuania aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Springer Netherlands 121/1-3(2006-10-01), 519-542 0167-6369 121:1-3<519 2006 121 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer