The Effects of Fertilization and Competition Control on Carbon and Nutrient Allocation, Leaf Area Efficiency, and Light Interception and the Physiology of Loblolly Pine Plantations
Objectives
1) To understand the mechanisms by which competition control and fertilization affect the growth,  development and productivity of stands by determining the fluxes and allocation of carbon and nutrients within loblolly pine plantations.
2) To develop a schedule of silvicultural treatments (competition control and fertilization) that will maximize growth of loblolly pine stands (one tool used to accomplish this objective will be the development of process level models which can be used to optimize scheduling of silvicultural treatments)

Principal Investigators

Ronald L. Hendrick (Forest Ecology)

Bruce E. Borders   (Forest Biometrics)

Rodney E. Will  (Tree Production Physiology)

Timothy B. Harrington  (Silviculture and Applied Ecology)

Robert L. Bailey  (Forest Biometrics)

Robert O. Teskey   (Forest Biology)

Lawrence A. Morris  (Forest Soils)

Last modified: May 30, 2001