Where to shoot your pilodyn: Within tree variation in basic density in plantation Eucalyptus globulus and E. nitens in Tasmania

New Forests

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 205-221

  Raymond, Carolyn A ^a,b   MacDonald, Andrew C ^a  

^a Coop Res Ctr Temperate H ^*  (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Height variation; Repeatability; Sampling height; Tree breeding

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; INSTRUMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BASIC DENSITY; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; PILODYN; PLANTATION; TASMANIA; TREE VARIATION;

FORESTRY;

EUCALYPT PLANTATION; TREE DENSITY;

AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA;

EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; EUCALYPTUS NITENS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0032080178     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006544918632     Document Type: Article

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