Daniel S. Mendham

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined tree growth and dynamics of organic matter and soil nutrient pools annually for 7 years under contrasting harvest residue management treatments in south-western Australia, and found that residue retention increased tree growth at the lower fertility Grey Sand site, but had no effect on plantation productivity at the higher fertility Red Earth site up to 7 years.

TL;DR: Overall efficiency of stand-level biomass prediction was 99%, with a mean absolute prediction error of only 13%.

TL;DR: The relationship between growth and water stress in E globulus plantations has been explored in this article, where the authors found that the growth response to nitrogen was associated with an increase in water stress and at least one site increased mortality.

TL;DR: This article investigated the effects of harvest residue management on soil fertility and plantation productivity at two sites in south-western Australia, and found that residue retention significantly increased surface soil microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and nitrogen (MBN), as well as increasing the MBC and MBN quotients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of residue treatments on soil nitrogen supply was investigated by incubating intact soil cores in the field to determine rates of net N mineralization, the resident pool of soil mineral N and the amount of N potentially available for mineralization was assessed.