Wood-fuel yields in short-rotation coppice growth in the north Sudan savanna in Burkina Faso

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 189, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 77-85

  Nygård, Robert ^a   Sawadogo, Louis ^b   Elfving, Björn ^a  

^a Inst l'Environnement Rech Agric   (Burkina Faso)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bark; Fuelwood; Production; Wood; Yield

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GROWTH KINETICS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL CONDITIONERS;

COPPICE GROWTH; TRUNK WOODS;

WOOD FUELS;

COPPICE; FUELWOOD; SILVICULTURE; YIELD;

AFRICA; BURKINA FASO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

ACACIA; ACACIA SEYAL; ANOGEISSUS; ANOGEISSUS LEIOCARPUS; COMBRETUM; COMBRETUM GLUTINOSUM; COMBRETUM NIGRICANS; SCLEROCARYA; SCLEROCARYA BIRREA;

EID: 1242300192     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2003.07.030     Document Type: Article

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