Systematic review of yield responses of four North American conifers to forest tree improvement practices

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-51

  Newton, Peter F ^a  

^a GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Correct provenance progeny selection; First and second generational selection; Jack pine; Juvenile height growth response; Red pine; Rotational yield consequences; White spruce

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRODUCTIVITY;

PROVENANCE-PROGENY EXPERIMENTS;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FORESTRY PRACTICE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; YIELD;

NORTH AMERICA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; LAMB; PARAGNETINA; PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA; PINUS BANKSIANA; PINUS RESINOSA;

EID: 0037421187     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00327-4     Document Type: Article

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