%0 Article
%T Possibilities of competition indices to describe competitive differences between Scots pine families.
%A Mäkinen, Harri
%D 1997
%J Silva Fennica
%V 31
%N 1
%R doi:10.14214/sf.a8509
%U https://silvafennica.fi/article/5608
%X <p>Possibilities of distance-independent and -dependent competition indices to describe the competition stress of an individual tree was studied in Southern Finland. Five half-sib open-pollinated families and one check lot of Scots pine (<em>Pinus sylvestris</em> L.) was used as study material in order to analyse competitive interactions of crown form and stand density variation. Almost all competition indices correlated strongly with radial increment. Thus distance-independent indices were adequate to describe competition in young row plantations, where distance effects between trees were implicitly eliminated. Correlations between indices and height increment were not significant. Along with the increase in competition, the width and length of the crown and the diameter increment of the stem of some narrow-crowned families decreased slowly compared to wide-crowned families.</p>