Developing breeding objectives for radiata pine structural wood production. I. Bioeconomic model and economic weights

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2920-2931

  Ivković, Miloš ^a   Wu, Harry X ^a   McRae, Tony A ^b   Powell, Mike B ^b  

^a Ensis   (Australia)

^b Southern Tree Breeding Association   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY;

BREEDING OBJECTIVES; MEAN ANNUAL INCREMENT (MAI); WOOD PRODUCTION;

WOOD;

CONIFEROUS TREE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; PLANTATION; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; TIMBER INDUSTRY;

BREEDING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELASTIC STRENGTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PINUS RADIATA; WOOD;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA;

EID: 34247274670     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-161     Document Type: Article

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