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SPATIAL PATTERN OF TREES WITHIN TREELINE ECOTONE
Zákravská, Šárka ; Treml, Václav (advisor) ; Demková, Katarína (referee)
The main part of my bachelor thesis is focused on treeline advance and on its spatial pattern especially. The theoretic part is consisted of a description of basic properties, hypothesis of treeline formation, current treeline movements in chosen European mountains and their potentional explanations. The aim of the practical part was to discover whether the type of spatial pattern affects treeline dynamics. Namely, the western part of the Giant Mountains was taken as a surveyed teritory. Ortorectified aerial photographes from years 1936 and 1964 were used when doing comparison. Spatial pattern was counted by "Ripley's K-function" and by the method of "Average Nearest Neighbour" on 110 defined squares (size 30 m) in the expanding part of the ecotone and on 110 defined squares in its stagnation part. Results don't indicate that some type of spatial pattern support treeline advance. The same spatial pattern was found both in major parts of stagnation and the expanding part of the ecotone.
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Effect of slope aspect on intra-annual growth of trees in the treeline
Zákravská, Šárka ; Treml, Václav (advisor) ; Ponocná, Tereza (referee)
This diploma thesis is focused on microclimatic differences at treelines on north-facing and south-facing slopes and their effect on tree growth. Thesis contains an overview of factors affecting development and timing of xylogenesis. The effects of slope orientation on treeline in relation to exposure effect are mentioned as well. The aim of the practical part of diploma thesis was to determine development, timing and the impact of temperature characteristics on xylogenesis of Norway spurce (Picea abies) on two localities with opposite slope aspect. Locations were situated in the Důl Bílého Labe valley, Krkonoše Mountains. Xylogenesis was studied using sections of micro-cores. Microcores were sampled every 10 days during the growing season. They were subsequently analyzed in dendrochronological laboratory. My results show that influence of air temperature recorded at the start of cambial cell division and the development of enlarging cells in the first part of the growing season. Climatic characteristics of both sites was similar, larger differences in temperatures were recorded at the beginning and at the end of the reference period.
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SPATIAL PATTERN OF TREES WITHIN TREELINE ECOTONE
Zákravská, Šárka ; Treml, Václav (advisor) ; Demková, Katarína (referee)
The main part of my bachelor thesis is focused on treeline advance and on its spatial pattern especially. The theoretic part is consisted of a description of basic properties, hypothesis of treeline formation, current treeline movements in chosen European mountains and their potentional explanations. The aim of the practical part was to discover whether the type of spatial pattern affects treeline dynamics. Namely, the western part of the Giant Mountains was taken as a surveyed teritory. Ortorectified aerial photographes from years 1936 and 1964 were used when doing comparison. Spatial pattern was counted by "Ripley's K-function" and by the method of "Average Nearest Neighbour" on 110 defined squares (size 30 m) in the expanding part of the ecotone and on 110 defined squares in its stagnation part. Results don't indicate that some type of spatial pattern support treeline advance. The same spatial pattern was found both in major parts of stagnation and the expanding part of the ecotone.
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