Why don't our stands grow even faster? Control of production and carbon cycling in eucalypt plantations

Southern Forests

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 99-104

  Ryan, M G ^a   Binkley, D ^b   Stape, J L ^c  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Age related productivity decline; Carbon allocation; Forest production ecology; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS SALIGNA;

EID: 57149096269     PISSN: 20702620     EISSN: 20702639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/SOUTH.FOR.2008.70.2.5.533     Document Type: Conference Paper

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