Establishment of planted Norway spruce and Scots pine seedlings: Effects of light environment, fertilisation, and orientation and distance with respect to shelter trees

New Forests

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 263-276

  Erefur, Charlotta ^a   Bergsten, Urban ^a   Lundmark, Tomas ^a   de Chantal, Michelle ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biomass; Fertilisation; Height growth; Light; Manual planting; Shelterwood

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; DRY MASS; FERTILISATION; FERTILISERS; FOREST GAPS; HEIGHT GROWTH; LIGHT ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT REGIME; MANUAL PLANTING; NORWAY SPRUCE; PICEA ABIES; PINE SEEDLINGS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SCOTS PINE SEEDLINGS; SHELTERWOOD; STEM DENSITY;

BIOMASS; REFORESTATION; SEED;

ECOLOGY;

BOREAL FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DAMAGE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GROWTH RATE; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LIGHT EFFECT; PHYTOMASS; REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHELTERBELT; STEM;

SWEDEN;

ABIES; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 79951772969     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-010-9226-8     Document Type: Article

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