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Tropical Cabinet Timber Trees
54 pages
Published: 1 Aug 2000
Author(s): Webb, Michael J., Reddell, Paul
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This report describes the benefits to establishment and early growth of cabinet-timber species, of investing more nutritional resources than is standard in the nursery phase in the humid tropics. It also goes further to demonstrate that, in the humid tropics, there may be unrecognised losses in growth potential through inadequate field nutrition.
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