<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">South, David B</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">VanderSchaaf, Curtis L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Britt, John R</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reforestation Costs can be decreased by lowering initial stocking and outplanting morphologically improved seedlings</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Native Plants Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005-03-20 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">76-82</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.2979/NPJ.2005.6.1.76</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Two stock types of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L. [Pinaceae]) were outplanted at 3 spacings: 749, 1122, and 1497 trees/ha (303, 454, and 605 trees/ac). Morphologically improved seedlings were grown at a density of 177/m2 (16/ft2) while standard seedlings were grown at a density of 277/m2 (25/ft2). Morphologically improved seedlings had an average root-collar diameter of 6.3 mm at time of outplanting and, after 3 y in the field, were taller and had more volume/ha than standard seedlings (4.5-mm root-collar at outplanting). An economic analysis was conducted based on 20-y volume estimates from a growth and yield program. If seedling cost is increased by 0.7 cent (due to growing at a low seedbed density) then out-planting cost per ha can be reduced by outplanting 750 morphologically improved seedlings instead of 1500 standard seedlings. Overall establishment costs might be reduced by US$ 108/ha ($44/ac) and the net present value of the stand might be increased by 10% or more (due to increasing the production of sawlogs). From this and other analyses, we determined that an important economic relationship exists between outplanting density and seedling quality.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>