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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"planted forests"”.
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The Non-Market Value of Biodiversity Enhancement in New Zealand's Planted Forests
… of biodiversity enhancement in New Zealand’s planted forests using the stated choice experiments (CE) approach. This study focuses on two issues. One issue is policy orientated where we estimate the non-market value of biodiversity enhancement and the determinants of this value. The other …
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The Economics of management effort in planted forests: an empirical analysis of fertilization and thinning prescriptions of Pinus taeda in the US South
… objective is to maximize his/her profits from planted forest investments, questions such as when and where exactly they should fertilize, thin and clearcut must be answered. We take advantage of an experiment established in 5 different states in the US South. Forest inventory data was collected …
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SILVER FIR AND ITS PROVENANCES IN A CLIMATE CHANGE PERSPECTIVE
… Apennine National Park in natural and planted forests, comparing the growth performance of three provenances of this species in Italy: (a) Western Alpine - (b) Northern Apennine (local) - (c) Southern Apennine. Drought severity was defined by the Standardized …
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Carbon and nitrogen cycling in watersheds of contrasting vegetation types in the Fernow Experimental Forest, West Virginia
… (N) and land-use changes associated with planted forests have important implications for sustainable forest management and associated water quality. The purpose of the research for this dissertation was to explore how N deposition will affect the long-term health, productivity, and carbon …
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Mapping Smallholder Forest Plantations in Andhra Pradesh, India using Multitemporal Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 S10 Data
… the deforestation and degradation of natural forests in Southeast Asia. At the same time, forest plantations have been established both within and outside of forests, with the latter (as contiguous blocks) being the focus of this study. The ecosystem services provided by natural forests are …
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The roles of exotic and native tree species in preventing desertification and enhancing degraded land restoration in the north east of Libya. Reciprocal effects of environmental factors and plantation forestry on each other, assessed by observations on growth and reproductive success of relevant tree species, and environmental factors analysed using multivariate statistics.
… study emphasises the current mismanagement of planted forests, particularly with overgrazing contributing to desertification, through preventing tree growth and eliminating most sapling regeneration. This study concludes by making recommendations for more effective choice of tree species to …