Site assessment for farm forestry in Australia and its relationship to scale, productivity and sustainability

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 171, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 133-152

  Ryan, Philip J ^a   Harper, Richard J ^b   Laffan, Michael ^c   Booth, Trevor H ^a   McKenzie, Neil J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Crop Variety Testing Group   (Australia)

^c FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate; Land evaluation; Plantations; Soil; Sustainable productivity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; EROSION; FARMS; PRODUCTIVITY; SITE SELECTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WOOD;

FARMLANDS;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE; PLANTATION; SITE INVESTIGATION; SOIL PROPERTY; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0036840472     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00468-1     Document Type: Article

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