Fine root length production, mortality and standing root crop dynamics in an intensively managed sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua L.) coppice

Plant and Soil

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-201

  Price, Jeffrey S ^a   Hendrick, Ronald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coppice; Demography; Fertilization; Fine roots; Minirhizotron; Sweetgum

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COPPICE; MORTALITY; ROOT SYSTEM;

LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA;

EID: 0032439518     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004324714371     Document Type: Article

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