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Short Rotation Coppice: Status and Prospects

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Glossary

Coppice:

Method of forest regeneration where the trees are cut periodically. In the periods between two cuttings the trees re-sprout from their stumps

Clone:

Organism (plant or animal) that has exactly the same genes like the unit it was produced from

Harvester:

A harvester is a machine that can be driven through an agricultural or forest stand to harvest the grown biomass (e.g., cut, chip, and collect the crops or trees)

Hybrid:

Organism (plant or animal) that is produced by crossing two organisms from different species or genus to improve the characteristics of the parent generation. A hybrid is internationally labeled by the multiplication cross (×) between the botanic names of the parental species or behind the hybrids’ botanic name

Oven dry tonne (odt):

Unit to specify the weight of wood or other biomass without any water (absolute dry). To determine this value, a sample of the biomass is dried for 1 day in an oven to remove the contained water and is weighed afterward

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Rödl, A. (2017). Short Rotation Coppice: Status and Prospects. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_988-1

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