Non-lethal strategies to reduce browse damage in eucalypt plantations

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-55

  Miller, Alison M ^a   O'Reilly Wapstra, Julianne M ^a,b   Potts, Brad M ^a,b   Mcarthur, Clare ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Browsing damage; Eucalyptus; Forestry; Herbivory; Marsupial; Resistance

Indexed keywords

BROWSING DAMAGE; EUCALYPT PLANTATIONS; FIELD TRIAL; GENETIC RESISTANCE; HERBIVORY; LONG LASTING; MAMMALIAN HERBIVORES; MANAGEMENT PLANS; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; POLITICAL PRESSURES; SINGLE TRIAL; SMALL SCALE; TASMANIA , AUSTRALIA;

DAMAGE DETECTION; FERTILIZERS; MAMMALS; TIMBER; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

BROWSING; DECIDUOUS TREE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HERBIVORY; MARSUPIAL; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SEEDLING; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

DAMAGE; EUCALYPTUS; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; MAMMALS; PLANTS; RESISTANCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

ANIMALIA; EUCALYPTUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 71849096130     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.040     Document Type: Article

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