Soil nutrition and temperature as drivers of root suckering in trembling aspen

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1685-1691

  Fraser, Erin C ^a   Lieffers, Victor J ^a   Landhäusser, Simon M ^a   Frey, Brent R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; NUTRITION; SOILS;

ROOT SUCKERING;

FORESTRY;

ROOT; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TREE;

CATOSTOMIDAE; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 0036444968     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x02-080     Document Type: Article

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