Effects of pruning and understorey vegetation on crown development, biomass increment and above-ground carbon partitioning in Pinus radiata D. Don trees growing at a dryland agroforestry site

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 124, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 241-254

  Bandara, G D ^b   Whitehead, D ^a   Mead, D J ^b   Moot, D J ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Biomass allocation; Canopy architecture; Pruning; Water deficit; Water stress integral

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CARBON; CULTIVATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); VEGETATION;

AGROFORESTRY; PINUS RADIATA; PRUNING; WATER STRESS;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AGROFORESTRY; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CROWN ARCHITECTURE; PRUNING; UNDERSTORY;

MEDICAGO SATIVA; PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 0033530840     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00074-2     Document Type: Article

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