Knowledge of the quantity woody biomass poplar short-rotation coppice (SRC) on agricultural land is a basic tool for management decisions like rotation length, volume production and financial balance sheet economic activities. The expansion SRC requires fast, reliable, easily applicable cheap method estimating yield, but existing methods are based labour-demanding lengthy measurements all shoot...

Exotic Populus taxa pose a threat to the success of riparian forest restoration in floodplain areas. We evaluated impact exotic on softwood development along river Common Meuse after introducing native nigra and re-establishment natural dynamics. sampled 154 poplar seedlings that spontaneously colonized restored habitat assessed their taxonomy based diagnostic chloroplast nuclear microsatellite...

woolly poplar aphid, phloeomyzus passerinii (signoret), is considered as an important and serious pest of poplar in iran and many countries. during 2002-2003, resistance and susceptibility of 12 poplar clones to p. passerinii were evaluated in hamedan province of iran. number of formed aphid colonies found in a surface unit was counted three times during a growing season. the clones populus alb...