Mean Annual Volume Increment of Selected Industrial Forest Plantation Species














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Based on the work of
Luis Ugalde and Osvaldo Pérez
Consultants
Edited by D. J. Mead
April 2001

Forest Plantations Thematic Papers


Forestry Department
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Forest Resources Development Service
Forest Resources Division
Forestry Department

Working Paper FP/1
FAO, Rome (Italy)


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Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Eucalyptus Species

2.1. Eucalyptus camaldulensis
2.2. Eucalyptus deglupta
2.3. Eucalyptus globulus
2.4. Eucalyptus grandis
2.5. Eucalyptus robusta
2.6. Eucalyptus saligna
2.7. Eucalyptus urophylla

3. Pinus Species

3.1. Pinus caribaea var. caribaea
3.2. Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis
3.3. Pinus oocarpa
3.4. Pinus patula
3.5. Pinus radiata

4. Other Species

4.1. Acacia mearnsii and A. auriculiformis
4.2. Araucaria angustifolia and A. cunninghamii
4.3. Casuarina equisetifolia
4.4. Cordia alliadora
4.5. Cupressus lusitanica
4.6. Dalbergia sissoo
4.7. Gmelina arborea
4.8. Leucaena spp
4.9. Swietenia macrophylla
4.10. Tectona grandis
4.11. Terminalia ivorensis and T. superba

5. Difficulties Translating Trial Data to the Field

6. Growth Models

7. Improving accessibility to plantation growth data

References

Appendix 1

List of Working Papers on forest plantation: Thematic Paper Series