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Research Journal of Forestry

Year: 2014 | Volume: 8 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 48-55
DOI: 10.17311/rjf.2014.48.55
Experimental Study of the Behavior of Aleppo Pine Seedlings in Pots Growing and Effect of Natural Litter (Monospecific and Mixed) on Growth, Biomass and Nutrient Content
Malki Hamana and Messaadia Hocine

Abstract: A study was carried out on small Alep pine plants behaviour using vegetation pots in order to test a hypothetic litter forest effect allelopathy on this species regeneration. It revealed favourable litter action, i.e. best growth and development plant. So, it shows best monospecific litter effect (Alep pine) on plants behaviour compared to mixed litters (Alep pine and holm oak). This best plant behaviour which consisted of greatest radial and vertical growth, great biomass, great volumic index and best chemical nutrition (chemical mass) was caused by the fact that Alep pine monospecific litters, with acid character, induced best nutritious elements dynamic (N, P, K) and great microbial groups activity (mineralisators fungi, myccorhiza) in soil.

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Malki Hamana and Messaadia Hocine, 2014. Experimental Study of the Behavior of Aleppo Pine Seedlings in Pots Growing and Effect of Natural Litter (Monospecific and Mixed) on Growth, Biomass and Nutrient Content. Research Journal of Forestry, 8: 48-55.

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