Biomass and volume yield in mature hybrid poplar plantations on temperate abandoned farmland

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3107-3130

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

^a Eastern Townships Forest Research Trust   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Agroforestry; Allometry; Biomass and volume equations; Environmental gradient; Populus; Site fertility; Southern Qu bec (Canada)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BIOMASS; CLONING; FARMS; REFORESTATION; SITE SELECTION;

AFFORESTATION; AGROFORESTRY; ALLOMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; POPULUS; SITE FERTILITY; VOLUME EQUATIONS;

FORESTRY;

AFFORESTATION; ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GROWTH RESPONSE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SOIL FERTILITY; TEMPERATE FOREST;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

POPULUS;

EID: 84921520188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5123107     Document Type: Article

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