A management regime for hybrid aspen stands combining conventional forestry techniques with early biomass harvests to exploit their rapid early growth

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 236, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 422-426

  Rytter, Lars ^a  

^a THE FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Corridor cleaning; Populus tremula Populus tremuloides; Sucker regeneration; Woody biomass production

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; GROWTH KINETICS; HARDWOODS; HARVESTING; PULP;

BIOFUELS; BIOMASS PRODUCTION RATES; CORRIDOR CLEANING; SUCKER REGENERATION; WOODY BIOMASS PRODUCTION;

FORESTRY;

BIOFUEL; BIOMASS; CLEARCUTTING; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; HYBRID; REGENERATION; SHOOT;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; HARVESTING; PLIES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 33751323382     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.09.055     Document Type: Article

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