COST Action E 52 - vTI - Bund.de

ForesT research
The beech research programme started during the 19 0s. This programme has different aims:
ecology, ecophysiology, pathology and genetic diversity organization. The genetic programme
focuses on three objectives: adaptation to climate changes, management and conservation of genetic
resources. The first provenance test was established in 19 9 and the last one in 1994 (Tab. 6). Among
the 12 provenance tests only three of them are international that means sister plantations exist in
different European countries and tested populations covered a large part of the natural range. All
these international tests are located in the National Forest of Lyons (West France), the younger one
is included in the COST Action E52. One progeny test was planted in 1999 in the National Forest of
Hayes (North East France).
Tab. 6: List of the provenance and progeny tests, location, tested material and individual number
(*: IUFRO test; +: test included in the COST Action E52)
Forest name Region
96
Plantation
Provenance number (countries)
years
Provenances tests
Surface
(ha)
Individuals
Ecouves Normandy 1979 16 (16 F) 0,50 1,540
Sommedieue Lorraine 1979 14 (13 F + 1 RO) 0,46 1,100
Arfons Midi Pyrénées 1979 15 (14 F + 1 B) 0,32 1,400
Ligny en Barrois Lorraine 1983 32 (29 F + 1 B + 2 NL) 0,19 1,345
Plachet
Champagne-
Ardennes
1982 30 (27 F + 1 B + 2 NL) 0,33 1,345
Ormancey
Champagne-
Ardennes
1982 22 (20 F + 1 B + 1 NL) 0,16 689
Guimont Limousin 1981 34 F 0,50 2,520
Retz Picardy 1982 30 (24 F + 3 NL+ 3 RO) 0,27 1,356
Lyons Normandy 1982
49 (39 F + 4 B + 3 NL + 1 CH +
4 RO)
0,34 2,200
Lyons* Normandy 1986
24 (6 F + 2 NL + 1 DK + 14 D +
1 TU)
61 (3 F + 2 E + 18 D + 1 NL +
0,67 6,700
Lyons* Normandy 1987 15 CZ + 2 HU + 8 RO + 1 B + 4 H +
3 GB + 3 PL + 1 YU)
1,44 14,400
Lyons*+ Normandy 1994
49 (1 E + 4 F + 34 D + 1 I + 2 CZ +
1 PL + 5 SK + 1 RO)
Progenies tests
1,50 7,500
Haye * Lorraine 1999 77 progenies from NF Hayes 1,61 4,285