Firewood harvest from forests of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Part 2: Plantation resource required to supply present demand

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1220-1226

  West, P W ^a,b   Cawsey, E M ^c   Stol, J ^c   Freudenberger, D ^d  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SciWest Consulting   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d GREENING AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eucalypt; Firewood; Murray Darling Basin; Plantations

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPETITION; HARVESTING; RISK PERCEPTION; ROTATION;

AUSTRALIA; EUCALYPT; FIREWOOD; GLOBULUS; LAND CLEARINGS; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; NATIVE FORESTS; PLANTATION ESTABLISHMENTS; PLANTATION FORESTS; PLANTATION RESOURCES; PLANTATIONS; SALINISATION;

FORESTRY;

EVERGREEN FOREST; HARVESTING; PLANTATION; SALINIZATION;

AGRICULTURE; COMPETITION; EUCALYPTUS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; PLANTATIONS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS;

EID: 56349156643     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2008.02.018     Document Type: Article

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