Nursery and field establishment techniques to improve seedling growth of three Costa Rican hardwoods

New Forests

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 75-96

  Wightman, Kevyn Elizabeth ^a   Shear, Ted ^a   Goldfarb, Barry ^a   Haggar, Jeremy ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Organization for Tropical Studies Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Calophyllum brasiliense; Compost; Cordia alliodora; Fertilization; Herbicide; Hyeronima alchorneoides; Native species; Reforestation; Root trainers; Weed control

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COSTA RICA; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOREST; MICRONUTRIENT; NITROGEN FERTILIZER; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PLANT NUTRIENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

FERTILIZERS; HERBICIDES; PAPER; SOILS; SUBSTRATES;

SEEDLINGS;

HARDWOODS;

FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GROWTH RATE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SILVICULTURE; WEED CONTROL;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0035194405     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012020023446     Document Type: Article

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