Evaluation of potential gross income from non-timber products in a model riparian forest for the Chesapeake Bay watershed

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 215-225

  Robles Diaz De Leon, L F ^a   Kangas, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy circuit models; Fruit trees; Ideal Holdridge diagram; Income generation; Nut trees; Ornamentals; Riparian buffer

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INCOME; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; RIPARIAN FOREST;

MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032318999     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006246510419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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