Assessing interactions between initial stand stocking and genotype on growth and form of 17 year old Pinus radiata in Canterbury

New Zealand Journal of Forestry

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-30

  Waghorn, Matthew J ^a   Mason, Euan G ^a   Watt, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Cancer Biology and Immunotherapeutics Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIMBER;

CROWN HEIGHT; DESIGN EXPERIMENTS; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PINUS RADIATA; STAND STOCKINGS; TREE CHARACTERISTICS; TREE DIAMETER;

FORESTRY;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 77952820405     PISSN: 11747986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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