Stool mortality and development of a competitive hierachy in a Salix viminalis coppice system

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 10, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 245-250

  Verwijst, Theo ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Asymmetric competition; mortality; Salix; self thinning

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); REVEGETATION; SOILS;

COPPICE SYSTEM; MORTALITY; SELF THINNING; STOOL MORTALITY;

FORESTRY;

SALIX; SALIX VIMINALIS;

EID: 0030470201     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0961-9534(95)00118-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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