Current Articles
Browse Archives
Search
Contact Us
AUF Home
ISA Seal
Get Acrobat Reader

Arboriculture & Urban Forestry Online
Volume 26, Issue 3 — May 2000
https://www.isa-arbor.com/Publications/Arboriculture-Urban-Forestry

Survival and Growth of Transplanted Large-And Small-Caliper Red Oaks    (View PDF)

Daniel K. Struve, Laura Burchfield, and Cathy Maupin

Abstract: Red oak (Quercus rubra L.) of 2 caliper sizes, 8.4 and 3.6 cm (3.3 and 1.4 in.), and 2 vigor classes (high and low) within the small-caliper trees, were transplanted to compare growth and establishment over a 4-year period. Possible confounding factors such as pre-transplant vigor, genetics, relative root-ball to backfill volume, and relative canopy to root-ball volume were controlled to determine whether small-caliper trees establish more rapidly than large-caliper trees. Large-caliper trees had high mortality, 58%, while no small-caliper trees died. Based on trunk caliper and height growth after transplanting, surviving large-caliper trees established faster than small-caliper trees—demonstrating that transplanted large-caliper red oaks can establish as rapidly as small-caliper red oaks.

Keywords: Transplant establishment; trunk-caliper increase.

https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2000.019


Current Articles | Browse Archives | Search | AUF Home | ISA Home | Get Acrobat