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  title info:
    title: Growing Plantation Forests
  name:
    name part: West, P. W.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 329 p. 44 illus., 15 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book describes the scientific principles that are used throughout the world to ensure the rapid, healthy growth of forest plantations. As the population of the world increases so does the amount of wood people use. Large areas of natural forests are being cleared every year and converted to other uses. Almost as large an area of plantation forests is being established annually to replace those lost natural forests. Eventually, plantations will produce a large proportion of the wood used around the world for firewood, building, the manufacture of paper and bioenergy. Forest plantations can also provide various environmental benefits including carbon storage, rehabilitation of degraded land, serving as disposal sites for various forms of industrial or agricultural waste and enhancing biodiversity in regions that have been largely cleared for agriculture. Whatever their motivation, plantation forest growers want their plantations to be healthy and grow rapidly to achieve their purpose as soon as possible. This book discusses how this is done. It is written for a worldwide audience, from forestry professionals and scientists through to small plantation growers, and describes how plantations may be grown responsibly and profitably.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by P. W. West.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Forestry
  subject:
    topic: Forestry management
  subject:
    topic: Trees
  subject:
    topic: Forest products
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Forestry Management
  subject:
    topic: Forestry
  subject:
    topic: Tree Biology
  subject:
    topic: Wood Science & Technology
  classification: QH545.F67
  classification: 634.92
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319018270
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01827-0
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    record creation date: 131021
    record change date: 20151204163513.0
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