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2008

Sammendrag

Among thousands of bark beetle species worldwide, only a handful is able to attack and kill trees on a large scale. One of these is the 8-toothed spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus L., indigenous to the Palaearctic forests and recently introduced into North America. In Europe, the main host is the Norway spruce, Picea abies (Linnaeus) Karsten; in Eastern Asia, including Japan, the main hosts are spruces of the P. jezoensis group. In unmanaged forests, these beetles play an important ecological role by killing old trees and stands, thus promoting biomass recycling and ecosystem rejuvenation. Foresters who are faced with extensive tree mortality do not, however, welcome this activity: managed forests of Europe have lost hundreds of millions of trees in recurring outbreaks

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The present research concerned selected characteristics of knottiness of large-dimensioned spruce timber (of trees with the minimum breast-height diameter of 40 cm over bark) from three stands, over one hundred years old, located in south-eastern Norway. Fourteen sample trees were felled and measured, and knots which occurred in them were classified into three categories of healthiness and three categories of tightness with the surrounding wood. Sound and tight knots were dominant in the timber under analysis. All categories varied significantly in relation to average diameters, relative diameters (related to stem thickness at the points where the knots occurred) and the relative height of location along merchantable boles. The researches analysed the significance of relations of diameters or relative diameters of knots with the relative height of their location along merchantable boles...

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Most atmospheric scientists agree that climate changes are going to increase the mean temperature in Europe with increased frequency of climatic extremes, such as drought, floods, and storms. Under such conditions, there is high probability that forests will be subject to increased frequency and intensity of stress due to climatic extremes. Therefore, impacts of climate change on forest health should be carefully evaluated...

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Le Roux et al. consider the approach that led to the above article as trend-setting. However, according to Le Roux et al. the data are unfortunately ‘‘inappropriately interpreted”. It is appreciated that le Roux et al. took the effort to study the original data and attempted a re-interpretation along the lines of an impressive list of publications which they claim have been ignored by Reimann et al. (2008). Here the achievements and shortcomings of their alternative interpretation will be discussed in view of the facts substantiating the conclusions of the original article......

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The inhibitory effect of methanol bark extracts from six deciduous and three coniferous European tree species were bioassayed against eight fungi from the different damage categories, brown rot, white rot, canker and blue-stain. This is the first report providing data on the antifungal activity of several Europaen tree species against fungi within these damage categories. Generally the decay fungi were more inhibited by the bark extracts than the blue-stain fungi, while the lowest inhibition was found among the cancer fungi. The main pattern found between the fungal groups in relation to the bark extracts in this study is believed to be caused by the route of ingress. Acer platanoides bark extract proved to be the most effcient bark extract tested, significantly reducing the growth rate of all tested fungi. Betula pubescens bark extract generally gave the weakest reduction in growth rate. In this study, the conifer bark extracts were in general more active against the canker and blue stain ascomycete fungi than the deciduous trees extracts.

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The recent article entitled ‘‘The biosphere: A homogenizer of Pb-isotope signals` has attracted considerable interest from other researchers in this area. According to the critical comments by Bindler and Shotyk, the authors have supposedly neglected a substantial body of the literature and especially the reported temporal changes in Pb-isotope ratios in a variety of sample materials. They conclude that the urban transect is not appropriate for defining natural variation, and state that a substantial body of research indicates a limited uptake of Pb in plants.......