Abstract
Plants are living things that form the basis of food pyramid, provide numerous products and are considered as the source of life. Many professions such as agriculture, forestry and landscaping work on plant growing. The fast growth of plants is of prime importance since it provides advantage in light and root competition in the areas where plants are grown. For this reason, it is highly important to identify the factors affecting plant development and to change these factors in favour of the target species. In order to achieve this, first of all, the factors affecting the development of the target species in the study area should be known. In this study, which was carried out in the natural regeneration areas of Taurus Cedar (Cedrus libani A. Rich) found in the Kasaba Forest Sub-District Directorate in Kas region of Antalya, and was prepared as a term project, 3-year-old young cedars naturally grown in different stands were compared in terms of their root collar diameters, seedling length and number of seedlings, and the factors affecting the natural regeneration success were tried to be identified by factor analysis. As a result of the study, it was found that the average root collar diameter was between 2.5 and 4.7 mm, the average seedling length was between 4.5 and 11.3 cm, and the average number of young cedars per square meter was between 6 and 47. When the factors affecting the natural regeneration success were examined, it was found that the factors such as soil moisture, precipitation, amount of organic matter, light intensity and number of healthy seeds were the most important factors that played a role in this success, and that those factors explained 78.32% of the total variance.
Highlights
Plants are the most important living groups in the world with vital importance for many other living groups, and they are considered as the source of life
3 different homogeneous groups were identified in terms of diameter development in the natural regeneration areas of cedar selected from 3 sections of the Kasaba Forest Sub-District Directorate located in the Kas region of Antalya
It can be stated that the root collar diameter developments of the natural young cedars in the study area are at a sufficient level. 3 different homogeneous groups were identified in terms of average length growth in the natural regeneration areas of cedar selected from 3 sections of the Kasaba Forest Sub-District Directorate located in the Kas region of Antalya while the lowest average length growth was found to be 4.5 cm, the highest average length growth was found to be 11.3 cm (Table 1)
Summary
Plants are the most important living groups in the world with vital importance for many other living groups, and they are considered as the source of life. All living life in the world is largely depend on plants, either directly or indirectly [1]. As well as producing the necessary nutrients for other living things through photosynthesis, plants function in many other ways such as reducing all kinds of air pollution in their environment [2,3,4], reducing noise [5,6], preventing erosion, balancing the climate and promoting positive effects on people psychologically [7,8,9,10]. They are an important economic resource [11,12]. Forests are extremely critical natural resources for many countries including our country
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