Objective:
For more than 20 years, plantation and natural regeneration trials have been set up by the CRPF PACA in the Maures massif with the collaboration of volunteer forest owners. The age of some of the trials now makes it possible to obtain transferable results, to guide the management of areas favourable to the cork oak, to allow continuity of monitoring and to develop the setting up of new trials in a context of climate change to be considered.
Context:
The cork oak is of significant economic interest (cork, insulation,...) and is a habitat of community interest (9330 - Quercus suber forest) of significant environmental and heritage wealth. There is a disturbing lack of young trees (less than 40 years old) in the cork oak groves of the Var region. The CRPF has therefore developed in situ experiments on plantations and natural regeneration by integrating the climate change variable.
Contacts:
Pauline MARTY, pauline.marty@crpf.fr, https://paca.cnpf.fr/