Does it pay to do silvicultural research on a slow growing species?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-152

  McKenney, Daniel W ^a   Beke, Naomi ^b   Fox, Glenn ^b   Groot, Arthur ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Cost benefit analysis; Research evaluation; Silviculture

Indexed keywords

BLACK SPRUCE; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; SILVICULTURAL RESEARCH; SLOW-GROWING SPECIES;

PICEA MARIANA; PINACEAE;

EID: 0030870666     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(97)00013-3     Document Type: Article

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