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Nursery managers face a wide variety of problems that lend themselves to research methods. This chapter (1) describes fundamental statistical concepts—inference, replication, randomization; (2) discusses methods for trolling experimental error—pairing, blocking, split-plot design, covariance—to increase the sensitivity of experiments and (3) traces the research process applied to forest-tree nurseries defining problems, designing and conducting experiments, and implementing solutions based concepts presented here with personal experience and biological intuition strengthens the nursery researcher’s ability to meet the major goal—and challenge—of nursery research; to develop new methods for producing high-quality seedlings at low cost.
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White, T.L. (1984). Designing Nursery Experiments. In: Duryea, M.L., Landis, T.D., Perry, C.R. (eds) Forestry Nursery Manual: Production of Bareroot Seedlings. Forestry Sciences, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6110-4_28
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