effects of plant roots on increasing soil shear strength depend on root tensile strength. thus, determination of root tensile strength can provide the necessary data for analyzing root-soil relations. tensile strength of plant roots varied in a wide range and have been reported from thousands to millions of mpa. the main objective of this study was to assess inter-species variations of root ten...

Abstract Nowadays, human influence is more noticeable in urban and non-urban ecosystems, which, turn, leads to the transformation of valuable natural resources. This article presents a study on diversity species composition vascular herb layer ecotones selected forests city Brzesko outside city. All represented association oak–hornbeam plant. The results showed that there are inconsistent consi...

European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus L.) is a tree species widely distributed in Europe and the Asian part of Near East. However, since not very attractive for commercial purposes, scientific interest this has been rather sparse. Our study focused on dense young (up to 10 years old) stands originating from natural regeneration seeds Slovakia because future importance may increase due climate cha...