More articles from Volume 1, Issue 1, 2016
Opening Letter
Restoration Silviculture: An Ecophysiological Perspective - Lessons learned across 40 years
Meeting Forest Restoration Challenges: Using the Target Plant Concept
Restoration of Spanish pine plantations: A main challenge for the 21st century
Reforestation challenges in Scandinavia
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(2026)
Guidelines for Climate Adaptive Forest Restoration and Reforestation Projects
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10.1016/B978-0-443-34086-4.00005-0
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(2020)
Reforestation and Sustainable Management of Pinus merkusii Forest Plantation in Indonesia: A Review
Forests, 11(12)
10.3390/f11121235
Sezgin AYAN, Fatih GEDİK, Esra Nurten YER ÇELİK, Orhan GÜLSEVEN, Ergin YILMAZ, Şeyma Selin AKIN, Halil Barış ÖZEL
(2020)
Bazı Geniş Yapraklı Orman Ağacı Fidanlarının Morfolojik Özellikleri
Bartın Orman Fakültesi Dergisi, 22(1)
10.24011/barofd.675911
John Leopard, Ajay Sharma, Adam Maggard, Chen Ding, Richard Cristan, Jason Vogel
(2025)
Replacing Peat with Biochar: Can Adding Biochar to Peat Moss Reduce Carbon Dioxide Fluxes?
Sustainability, 17(9)
10.3390/su17094139
Vladan Ivetić, Jovana Devetaković, Zoran Maksimović
(2016)
Initial height and diameter are equally related to survival and growth of hardwood seedlings in first year after field planting
REFORESTA, (2)
10.21750/REFOR.2.02.17
Ukhan Jeong, Seung Hyun Han, Dohee Kim, Sohyun Kim, Eun Ju Cheong
(2024)
Exploring the Efficient Irrigation Period for Larix kaempferi Seedlings in Nursery Pots in Greenhouse Conditions Using Optical Measurements
Forests, 15(8)
10.3390/f15081303
David B. South, Ryan Nadel
(2021)
Irrigation in pine nurseries
REFORESTA, (10)
10.21750/REFOR.10.05.88
Shoma Hiejima, Rico Hachisuka, Isao Akagi, Yoshimi Sakai, Taro Yamanobe, Shin Ugawa
(2026)
Effect of Different Fertilizer Doses Applied in Different Seasons of Cutting Sapling Production on Nutrient Accumulation and Outplanting Performance of Cryptomeria japonica D. Don Cutting Saplings
Forest Science, ()
10.1007/s44391-026-00060-0Forest Nursery Practices in the Southern United States
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David B. South
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Tom E. Starkey
Scott A. Enebak
Abstract
Over the past five decades, researchers in the southern United States have been working with nursery managers to develop ways to reduce the cost of producing seedlings. In this regard, the Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative (at Auburn University in Alabama) has helped reduce hand-weeding costs and losses due to nematodes and disease. As a result, nursery managers are able to legally use a variety of registered herbicides and fungicides for use in pine and hardwood seedbeds. Other changes over the last three decades include a reduction in the number of nurseries growing seedlings, a reduction in the number of seedlings outplanted per ha, an increase in the number of container nurseries, an increase in the average production per nursery, an increase in production by the private sector, growing two or more crops after fumigation, the development of synthetic soil stabilizers, applying polyacrylamide gels to roots and the use of seedling bags and boxes for shipping seedlings.
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