Poplars and willows : trees for society and the environment /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : Rome : CABI ; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2014.
• Subjects: Poplar.; Willows.; Forests and forestry > Environmental aspects.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Silviculture and Forest Management.; Agroforestry and Multipurpose Trees: Community, Farm and Social Forestry.; Meteorology and Climate.; Insects.; Populus.; Salix.; Agroforestry.; Agroforestry systems.; Climate.; Climate change.; Disease resistance.; Domestication.; Drought.; Environment.; Forest pests.; Forest plantations.; Forest trees.; Insect pests.; Plant diseases.; Plant genetic resources.; Plant pests.; Planting stock.; Poplars.; Productivity.; Rural areas.; Salinity.; Shelterbelts.; Society.; Sustainability.; Trees.
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This book entitled 'Poplars and Willows: Trees for Society and the Environment' contains twelve chapters. The poplars could equally well be willows, since they are clearly of a single, identified taxon (Chapter 2), selected originally from naturally occurring genetic resources (Chapter 3),...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / J.G. Isebrands and J. Richardson
• Poplars and willows of the world, with emphasis on silviculturally important species / Donald I. Dickmann and Julia Kuzovkina
• Ecology and physiology of poplars and willows / J. Richardson, J.G. Isebrands and J.B. Ball
• The domestication and conservation of populus and salix genetic resources / Brian J. Stanton, Michelle J. Serapiglia and Lawrence B. Smart
• Operational poplar and willow culture / John A. Stanturf and Cees van Oosten
• Environmental applications of poplars and willows / J.G. Isebrands, P. Aronsson, M. Carlson, R. Ceulemans, M. Coleman, N. Dickinson, J. Dimitriou, S. Doty, E. Gardiner, K. Heinsoo, J.D. Johnson, Y.B. Koo, J. Kort, J. Kuzovkina, L. Licht, A.R. McCracken, I. McIvor, P. Mertens, K. Perttu, D. Riddell-Black, B. Robinson, G. Scarascia-Mugnozza, W.R. Schroeder, J. Stanturf, T.A. Volk and M. Weih
• Abiotic stresses / N. Marron, B. Gielen, F. Brignolas, J. Gao, J.D. Johnson, D.F. Karnosky, A. Polle, G. Scarascia-Mugnozza, W.R. Schroeder and R. Ceulemans
• Diseases of poplars and willows / M. Ostry, M. Ramstedt, G. Newcombe and M. Steenackers
• Insect and other pests of poplars and willows / J.G. Charles, L. Nef, G. Allegro, C.M. Collins, A. Delplanque, R. Gimenez, S. Höglund, H. Jiafu, S. Larsson, Y. Luo, P. Parra, A.P. Singh, W.J.A. Volney and S. Augustin
• Properties, processing and utilization / John Balatinecz, Patrick Mertens, Lieven De Boever, Hua Yukun, Juwan Jin and Joris van Acker
• Markets, trends and outlook / Qiang Ma and Arvydas Lebedys
• Poplars and willows for rural livelihoods and sustainable development / Walter Kollert, Jim Carle and Linda Rosengren
• Epilogue / J. Richardson and J.G. Isebrands.