Comparison of growth, nutrition and soil properties of pure and mixed stands of Populus deltoides and Alnus subcordata

Silva Fennica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-35

  Sayyad, Ehsan ^a   Hosseini, Seyed Mohsen ^a   Mokhtari, Jamshid ^a   Mahdavi, Reza ^a   Jalali, Seyed Gholamali ^a   Akbarinia, Moslem ^a   Tabari, Masoud ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Growth; Mixed plantations; Nitrogen fixing trees (NFT); Nutrient return; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; NUTRITION;

MIXED PLANTATIONS; NITROGEN FIXING TREES (NFT); NUTRIENT RETURN;

LUMBER;

GROWTH RATE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANTATION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL PROPERTY;

GROWTH; NITROGEN; NUTRITION; POPULUS DELTOIDES;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

ALNUS; ALNUS SUBCORDATA; BETULACEAE; POPULUS; POPULUS DELTOIDES;

EID: 33645364687     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: 00375330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.350     Document Type: Article

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