Vitality and bark beetle resistance of fertilized Norway spruce

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 84, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 149-157

  Kytö, Maarit ^a   Niemelä, Pekka ^a,b   Annila, Erkki ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ceratocystis polonica; Defence; Picea abies; Resin; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ABIES; CERATOCYSTIS POLONICA; COLEOPTERA; FUNGI; PICEA ABIES; SCOLYTINAE; PINACEAE;

BARK BEETLE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FERTILIZATION; FUNGAL PATHOGEN; NORWAY SPRUCE; PEST RESISTANCE; TREE VIGOUR;

EID: 0030201320     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1127(96)03731-0     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Bannan, M.W., 1936. Vertical resin ducts in the secondary wood of the Abietineae. New Phytol., 35: 11-46.
2. Bryant, J.P., Reichardt, P.B., Clausen, T.P. and Werner, R.A., 1993. Effects of mineral nutrition on delayed inducible resistance in Alaska paper birch. Ecology, 74: 2072-2084.
3. Christiansen, E. and Horntvedt, R., 1983. Combined Ips / Ceratocystis attack on Norway spruce, and defensive mechanisms of the trees. Z. Angew. Entomol., 96: 110-118.
4. Christiansen, E., Waring, R.H. and Berryman, A., 1987. Resistance of conifers to bark beetle attack: searching for general relationships. For. Ecol. Manage., 22: 89-106.
5. Derome, J., Kukkola, M. and Mälkönen, E., 1986. Forest liming on mineral soils. Results of Finnish experiments. National Swedish Environment Protection Board Report 3084, 107 pp.
6. Herms, D.A. and Mattson, W.J., 1992. The dilemma of plants: to grow or defend. Q. Rev. Biol., 67: 283-335.
7. Johansson, M. and Stenlid, J., 1985. Infection of roots of Norway spruce (Picea abies) by Heterobasidion annosum. I. Initial reactions in sapwood by wounding and infection. Eur. J. For. Path., 15: 32-45.
8. Kärkkäinen, M., 1981. Männyn ja kuusen runkopuun pihkapitoisuuden lisääminen sivutuotesaannon kohottamiseksi (Increasing resin content in pine and spruce stemwood for higher by-product yield). Commun. Inst. For. Fenn., 96(8): 1-81.
9. Lorio, P.L., Jr. and Sommers, R.A., 1986. Evidence of competition for photosynthates between growth processes and oleo-resin synthesis in Pinus taeda L. Tree Physiol., 2: 301-306.
10. Mole, S., 1994. Trade-offs and constraints in plant-herbivore defense theory: a life-history perspective. Oikos, 71: 3-12.
11. Münster-Swendsen, M., 1987. Index of vigour in Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.). J. Appl. Ecol., 24: 551-561.
12. Nylinder, P., 1951. Om patologiska hartskanaler (On pathological resin canals). Medd. Stat. Skogsforskn., 40(7): 1-12.
13. Reichardt, P.B., Chapin, F.S., III, Bryant, J.P., Mattes, B.R. and Clausen, T.B., 1991. Carbon/nutrient balance as a predictor of plant defense in Alaskan balsam poplar: potential importance of metabolite turnover. Oecologia (Berl.), 88: 401-406.
14. Solheim, H., 1988. Pathogenity of some Ips typographus-associated blue-stain fungi to Norway spruce. Comm. Nor. For. Res. Inst., 40(14): 1-11.
15. Solheim, H., 1991. Oxygen deficiency and spruce resin inhibition of growth of fungi associated with Ips typographus. Mycol. Res., 95: 1387-1392.
16. Stenlid, J. and Johansson, M., 1987. Infection of roots of Norway spruce (Picea abies) by Heterobasidion annosum. II. Early changes in phenolic content and toxicity. Eur. J. For. Path., 17: 217-226.
17. Stephan, G., 1967. Untersuchungen über die Anzahl der Harzkanäle in Kiefern (Pinus silvestris). Arch. Forstwes., 16: 461-470.
18. Tuomi, J., 1992. Toward integration of plant defence theories. Trends Ecol. Evol., 7: 365-367.
19. Tuomi, J., Niemelä, P., Chapin, F.S., III, Bryant, J.P. and Sirén, S., 1988. Defensive responses of trees in relation to their carbon/nutrient balance. In: W.J. Mattson, J. Levieux and C. Bernard-Dagan (Editors), Mechanisms of Woody Plant Defenses Against Insects: Search for Pattern. Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 57-72.
20. Waring, R.H., Thies, W.G. and Muscato, D., 1980. Stem growth per unit leaf area: a measure of tree vigor. For. Sci., 26: 112-117.