Pruning and fertiliser effects on branch size and decay in two Eucalyptus nitens plantations

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 225, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 123-133

  Wiseman, Danielle ^a,b   Smethurst, Philip ^a,c   Pinkard, Libby ^a   Wardlaw, Tim ^d   Beadle, Chris ^a,c   Hall, Malcolm ^c   Baillie, Craig ^a,c   Mohammed, Caroline ^a,b,c  

^a Cooperative Research Center for Sustainable Production Forestry ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Nutrition; Silviculture; Wood quality

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); FORESTRY; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; NUTRITION;

DECAY INFECTIONS; EUCALYPTUS NITENS PLANTATIONS; KINO PRODUCTION; PRUNING ASSOCIATED DECAY;

FERTILIZERS;

PRUNING;

DECAY; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN; NUTRITION; SILVICULTURE; TREES;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS NITENS;

EID: 33645047179     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.12.031     Document Type: Article

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