Interferěncia da comunidade infestante sobre plantas de Eucalyptus grandis de segundo corte
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2010-03-01
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De Souza, Marcelo Claro [UNESP]
Da Costa Aguiar Alves, Pedro Luis [UNESP]
Salgado, Tiago Pereira
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Currently Brazil is one of the leading paper and pulp producers in the world market, where Sao Paulo State boasts the greatest production. Because of the pulp prices falling in the world market and the low costs of a second coppice rotation, two experiments (started May and December, 2000) were conducted to evaluate the effects of weeds and of weed-free periods (0, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 months) on the growth of Eucalyptus grandis second coppice plants. The field trials were set up in a randomized block design with four replicates and the experimental plots consisted of three rows of fve plants. The December weed community was composed mainly of Brachiaria decumbens (Surinam grass) and Panicum maximum (Guinea grass) and the May weed community was composed mainly by B. decumbens and Digitaria insularis (Sour-grass). Weeds had a low negative influence on growth, diameter development and macronutrients content of E. grandis second coppice plants. In both experiments, slight reductions in growth were observed only between the fully weeded and weed-free periods, after 18 months.
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Control period, Eucalyptus, Interspecifc competition, Block designs, Control periods, Eucalyptus grandis, Field trial, Guinea grass, Low costs, Negative influence, Panicum maximum, Paper and pulp, Pulp prices, Sao Paulo, World market, Competition, International trade
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Scientia Forestalis/Forest Sciences, n. 85, p. 63-71, 2010.