Biomass expansion factors and root:shoot ratios for coniferous tree species in Great Britain

Forestry

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 421-430

  Levy, P E ^a   Hale, S E ^b   Nicoll, B C ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CONIFEROUS TREE; FORESTRY PRACTICE; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

CONIFERALES; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 10344247174     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/77.5.421     Document Type: Article

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