Clearing with excavators and nitrogen fertiliser increases the yield of Eucalyptus nitens in plantations established on a native forest site in southern Tasmania

Australian Forestry

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 109-115

  Turnbull, C R A ^a,b   Beadle, C L ^a,b   McLeod, R ^c   Cherry, M L ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Temperate Hardwood Forestry ^*  (Australia)

^c FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS NITENS;

EID: 0002323101     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.1997.10674705     Document Type: Article

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