On p. 323, in the last line of the left column the name of the country should be Slovenia, not Slovakia.

In Swit- zerland, forest soils bind, togeth- er with the litter, an average of 110 to 150 tons of carbon per hec- tare, which is slightly more than the plant biomass.. These

Tree crowns in some years have a higher and in oth- er years a lower density of leaves or needles, but in general all of them have fewer needles and leaves than in 1990.. Although

Although the quantity of dead wood has increased in recent years, there are still, from an ecological point of view, far too few large stems of standing dead wood in the

The increase in the growing stocks has had, on the whole, a negative effect since a forest with a high volume of growing stock is usually dense and dark.. As a result,

We do, however, have the figures for the roundwood that reaches the market: Swiss forest enterprises sell 4 to 5 million cu- bic metres each year.. This is an av- erage of 3.5

Forests in the Central Plateau and in the Pre-Alps are used most in- tensively (41% and 27% of total use, respectively) because they are generally more easily accessi- ble than

In the highly acid and extremely acid soils the average base saturation of the fine earth is less than half as high as in slightly acid or ba- sic soils. However, even in high- ly

Only in the last 40 years have broadleaf trees been increasingly promoted in young forests, which is why the proportion of broadleaf trees is only slowly increasing. In a