Dendroclimatological characteristics of silver fir [Abies alba Mill.] in the Swietokrzyskie Mountains

The paper presents the analysis of relations between diameter increment and climatic factors in silver fir stands in the Zagnańsk Forest District (central Poland). Despite growth rate similar to the observed in other parts of Poland, firs form the Świętokrzyskie Mountains show different climatic driving forces of the increment process. Temperature in March, late summer and September as well as precipitation in May and summer in the year of tree−ring formation, and in August of the previous year turned to be the most important factors that shape diameter increment of analysed trees