Phil West

Growing Plantation Forests (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In a highly readable fashion, this book describes the scientific principles which are used throughout the world to ensure rapid, healthy plantation growth. It is written for a world-wide audience, from forestry professionals and scientists through to small plantation growers, to describe how plantations may be grown responsibly and profitably. The author has been a forest scientist for over 30 years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783540324799
• Artikelnr.: 44222915

Autorenporträt

Professor Phil West has been a forest scientist for over 30 years. His research specialities concern the growth behaviour of forests. He is presently a forestry consultant and teaches both plantation forestry and forest measurement in the forestry school of Southern Cross University in northern New South Wales, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Plantation Forests.- Biology of Plantation Growth.- Growth Rates and Wood Quality.- Choosing the Species and Site.- Establishment.- Nutrient Management.- Stand Density and Initial Spacing.- Thinning.- Pruning.- Pests.- Diseases.- Tree Breeding.- 13 Mixed-Species Plantations.- Silviculture and Sustainability.