Willow biomass production under conditions of low-input agriculture on marginal soils

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1558-1566

  Stolarski, Mariusz J ^a   Szczukowski, Stefan ^a   Tworkowski, Józef ^a   Klasa, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biomass; Marginal lands; Pole planting; Short rotation willow; Yield

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; BIOMASS YIELD; CUTTING CYCLES; FIELD TRIAL; FOOD CROPS; GROWING SEASON; HIGHER YIELD; MARGINAL LANDS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS; SHORT ROTATION; SILT SOIL; STEM DIAMETER; WILLOW BIOMASS; YIELD;

CLONING; CULTIVATION; POLES; ROTATION; SOILS;

BIOMASS;

CLEARCUTTING; CLONE; CROP PLANT; CULTIVAR; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DRY MATTER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWING SEASON; HARVESTING; MORPHOLOGY; PHYTOMASS; PROVENANCE TRIAL; SILT; SOIL TEXTURE; YIELD;

POLAND;

SALIX;

EID: 80051806452     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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