Should we use meshes or solid tube shelters when planting in Mediterranean semiarid environments?

New Forests

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 267-282

  Oliet, Juan A ^a   Blasco, Raul ^a   Valenzuela, Patricio ^b   Melero de Blas, María ^c   Puértolas, Jaime ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Avenida Vicuña Mackenna   (Chile)

^c World Wildlife Foundation España   (Spain)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Chlorophyll fluorescence; Quercus coccifera; Restoration; Rhamnus lycioides; Water potential

Indexed keywords

AIR; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MESH GENERATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFORESTATION;

AFFORESTATION; CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; QUERCUS; RHAMNUS LYCIOIDES; WATER POTENTIAL;

SEED;

AFFORESTATION; AIRFLOW; DECIDUOUS TREE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIGHT QUALITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MICROCLIMATE; PIPE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; ROOT SYSTEM; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEMIARID REGION; SHELTER; SHRUBLAND; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; TREE PLANTING;

AIR; PHYSIOLOGY; QUERCUS; REFORESTATION; TRANSMITTANCE;

QUERCUS COCCIFERA; RHAMNUS LYCIOIDES;

EID: 85049601959     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: 15735095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-018-9659-z     Document Type: Article

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