NORTHERN CONIFERS IN FAST GROWING CONDITIONS. A STEP TOWARDS AN ADEQUATE WOOD SUPPLY FOR INDUSTRY

Objective

The project is focused :

- On four conifers species that are already essential for industry supply and are expected to spread in plantation in northern EEC for the future : Norway spruce, Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, larches.

- To productive sites, active silvicultural techniques and short rotation in order to have attractive economic conditions.

The detailed programme of the project has been built mostly to complete research work generally conducted by species. It is divided in five interrelated tasks.

1. Breeding and selection : early tests for growth and wood quality, and introduction of new genetic material.

2. Plants and seeds production : indoor seed-orchards, biotechnology tools, nursery techniques (essentially bulk propagation), physiological quality of plants.

3. Silviculture : ecological requirements, spacing and thinning demonstration plots, harvesting especially mechanisation.

4. Consequences of breeding and silviculture on wood quality and on ecosystems.

5. Cost benefits analysis : this will be done in some different scenarios, as a synthesis of the project.

The expected results of the project are :

- To get new methodological tools - applicable to different species and countries : this is mainly the case for early test, physiology of plants .

- To characterise in different conditions of silviculture, the level and planning of investment, the volume and technological characteristic of the products and other impacts (ecological especially).

- To increase collaboration between EEC countries while completing existing EEC research programmes for their main gap in order to promote cost-advantage analysis of these production towards extension services.

Fields of science

• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › forestry › silviculture
• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology › ecosystems
• medical and health sciences › basic medicine › physiology

Programme(s)

• FP3-AIR - Specific research and technological development and demonstration programme (EEC) in the field of agriculture and agro-industry, including fisheries, 1990-1994

Topic(s)

• 122 - Novel silvicultural systems

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Association Forêt-Cellulose (AFOCEL)

Address

Domaine De L'etancon
77370 Nangis
France

Participants (10)

Association pour la Rationalisation et la Mécanisation de l'Exploitation Forestière (ARMEF)

France

Address

30 Boulevard Foch
77300 Fontainebleau

COILLTE TEORANTA

Ireland

Address

Bray
Wicklow

Centre National du Machinisme Agricole, du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts (CEMAGREF)

France

Address

Domaine Des Barres
45290 Nogent-sur-vernisson

Links

DEPT. BOTANY DENDROLOGY AND FOREST GENETICS

Denmark

Address

Kirkegaarosvej 3a
2970 Hoersholm

FORESTRY COMMISSION RESEARCH AGENCY

United Kingdom

Address

Northern Research Station
EH25 9SY Roslin-midlothian

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)

France

Address

Rue De La Pomme De Pin Ardon
45160 Oliver

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)

France

Address

Centre De Recherche De Nancy Champenoux
54280 Seichamps

MINISTERE DE LA REGION WALLONNE

Belgium

Address

Avenue Marechal Juin 23
5030 Gembloux

Niedersächsische Forstliche Versuchsanstalt

Germany

Address

Forstamtstraße 6
34355 Staufenberg-escherod

UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN

Belgium

Address

Place Croix Du Sud 2 Bp 4
1348 Louvain-la-neuve