The researcher Matthew Larcombe from the University of Tasmania, was working for one month at the CEABN InBio, supported by the Institute of Australian Foresters, in the frame of project "WILDGUM - A multi-scale approach to study the naturalization of common eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus Labill.) in Portugal.

One of the aims of this project is to quantify the establishment of seminal regeneration around common eucalyptus plantations and to assess the factors that may be important in predicting this establishment. Surveys were carried out at the stand scale, to relate plant establishment with stand characteristics, such as age, rotation and cultural practices.

The results will contribute to the prediction and control of seminal regeneration of eucalyptus plants, for example by adopting alternative management practices. This research also aims to establish a comparison with a similar study conducted in Australia, showing the contrasts of two geographically and ecologically distinct situations. This study was developed in 2011 by researchers Matthew Larcombe, Brad Potts (presently a consultant of the WILDGUM project) and Joaquim Sande Silva in the frame of the scientific exchange program TRANZFOR.

Tuesday, 08 April 2014