Long-term responses of Scots pine and Norway spruce stands in Sweden to repeated fertilization and thinning

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 320, Issue , 2014, Pages 118-128

  Bergh, Johan ^a   Nilsson, Urban ^a   Allen, H Lee ^b   Johansson, Ulf ^a   Fahlvik, Nils ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Interactions; Nitrogen; Phosphorous; Picea abies; Pinus sylvestris

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; EXPERIMENTS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

FERTILIZATION EXPERIMENT; GUIDELINES; NITROGEN FERTILIZATION; NUTRIENTS AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHOROUS; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SILVICULTURAL PRACTICES;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; DIAMETER; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GROWTH RATE; GUIDELINE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHORUS; SEEDLING; SILVICULTURE; STAND STRUCTURE; THINNING; VOLUME CHANGE;

FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; NITROGEN; PHOSPHOROUS ACID; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLANTS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84897046515     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.016     Document Type: Article

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