Determining productivity gains from herbaceous vegetation management with 'age-shift' calculations

Forestry

Volumn 79, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 43-56

  South, David B ^a   Miller, James H ^b   Kimberley, Mark O ^c   Vanderschaaf, Curtis L ^d  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c SCION   (New Zealand)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY; VEGETATION;

PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 31744445247     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpi058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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