Nursery stock quality as an indicator of bottomland hardwood forest restoration success in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 255-269

  Jacobs, Douglass F ^a   Goodman, Rosa C ^a   Gardiner, Emile S ^b   Salifu, K Francis ^a   Overton, Ronald P ^c   Hernandez, George ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BOTTOMLAND HARDWOODS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Afforestation; competition control; field performance; growth; hardwood seedling quality

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; ALLUVIAL VALLEYS; BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD; BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD FORESTS; COMPETITION CONTROL; DIAMETER GROWTH; FIELD PERFORMANCE; FIRST-ORDER LATERAL ROOTS; GREEN ASH; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OUTPLANTING; PLANTINGS; QUALITY STANDARD; QUERCUS; ROOT BIOMASS; ROOT VOLUME; ROOT-COLLAR DIAMETERS; SURVIVAL RATE;

CONSERVATION; GROWTH (MATERIALS); HARDWOODS; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; SEED; WEED CONTROL;

ECOLOGY;

COMPETITION; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTATION; GROWTH; HARDWOODS; MISSISSIPPI; PERFORMANCE; RESTORATION; SEEDLINGS; UNITED STATES; WEED CONTROL;

CARYA; CARYA ILLINOINENSIS; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS PENNSYLVANICA; QUERCUS NIGRA; QUERCUS PAGODA;

EID: 84859497623     PISSN: 02827581     EISSN: 16511891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02827581.2011.628948     Document Type: Article

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