Mature hybrid poplar riparian buffers along farm streams produce high yields in response to soil fertility assessed using three methods

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1893-1916

  Fortier, Julien ^a,b   Truax, Benoit ^a   Gagnon, Daniel ^a,b,c   Lambert, France ^a  

^a Eastern Townships Forest Research Trust   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Agroforestry; Biomass; Ion exchange membranes; Wood volume

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AFFORESTATION; AGROFORESTRY; CLONE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HYBRID; ION EXCHANGE; MEMBRANE; RIPARIAN ZONE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL TEST; VOLUME; WOOD; YIELD RESPONSE;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

POPULUS;

EID: 84882997486     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su5051893     Document Type: Article

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