Cyclic and progressive changes in short-rotation willow coppice systems

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 161-165

  Verwijst, Theo ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Competitive hierarchy; coppice; cutting cycles; Salix viminalis; self thinning; site productivity; spacing; yield density effect

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; GROWTH KINETICS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRODUCTION; WOOD FUELS;

CUTTING CYCLES; HARVEST RELATED CYCLIC CHANGES; LOCAL YIELD DENSITY EFFECTS; PLANT POPULATION; RELATIVE WEIGHT VARIATION; STOOLS; TEMPORAL SITE PRODUCTIVITY FACTORS; WILLOW COPPICE SYSTEM;

FORESTRY;

SALIX; SALIX ARBUSCULOIDES; SALIX VIMINALIS;

EID: 0030497743     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0961-9534(96)00016-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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