Nursery Cultural Techniques Facilitate Restoration of Acacia koa Competing with Invasive Grass in a Dry Tropical Forest
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Plant Material and Nursery Treatments
- Hawaii dibble tube: 49 cm3 volume, 2.5 cm diameter × 12 cm depth, and tray density of 449 containers m−2 (Pacific Allied Products, Ltd., Kapolei, HI USA).
- Ray Leach “cone-tainer” SC-10: 164 cm3 volume, 3.8 cm diameter × 21 cm depth, and tray density of 528 containers m−2 (Stuewe and Sons, Inc., Tangent, OR USA).
- Deepot 40 (D-40): 656 cm3 volume, 6.4 cm diameter × 25 cm depth, and tray density of 174 containers m−2 (Stuewe and Sons, Inc., Tangent, OR USA).
2.2. Outplanting Site and Experimental Design
2.3. Measurements and Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Survival
3.2. Phyllode Development
3.3. Tree Growth
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Jacobs, D.F.; Davis, A.S.; Dumroese, R.K.; Burney, O.T. Nursery Cultural Techniques Facilitate Restoration of Acacia koa Competing with Invasive Grass in a Dry Tropical Forest. Forests 2020, 11, 1124. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11111124
Jacobs DF, Davis AS, Dumroese RK, Burney OT. Nursery Cultural Techniques Facilitate Restoration of Acacia koa Competing with Invasive Grass in a Dry Tropical Forest. Forests. 2020; 11(11):1124. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11111124
Chicago/Turabian StyleJacobs, Douglass F., Anthony S. Davis, R. Kasten Dumroese, and Owen T. Burney. 2020. "Nursery Cultural Techniques Facilitate Restoration of Acacia koa Competing with Invasive Grass in a Dry Tropical Forest" Forests 11, no. 11: 1124. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11111124