Modelling competition in short rotation forests

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 177-187

  Tomé, Margarida ^a   Verwijst, Theo ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Competition; coppice; empirical models; Eucalyptus globulus; process based models; Salix viminalis; self thinning

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PULP; WOOD;

COPPICE SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL SITE PREPARATION; PLANT-PLANT INTERACTIONS; PLANTING DENSITIES; SHORT ROTATION FORESTRY; WITHIN STAND PROCESSES; WOODY BIOMASS;

FORESTRY;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; SALIX; SALIX VIMINALIS;

EID: 0030483371     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0961-9534(96)00042-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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