Table of Contents

Abstract .................................................................................................................................................. 1
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 2
Background ......................................................................................................................................... 3
Why planting nurse trees? ................................................................................................................... 4
Hypotheses or research questions

Materials and methods ........................................................................................................................... 5

Study area .................................................................................................................................. 6

Experiment design ...................................................................................................................... 7

Previous studies on the experiment ............................................................................................ 8 Commented [ML1]: We have not done any previous studies –
but do you mean collection of data previously?

Data collection ............................................................................................................................ 9

Data analysis ............................................................................................................................. 10

Results .................................................................................................................................................. 11

Quality and growth of target trees ............................................................................................ 12

Growth and yield of nurse trees on different densities .............................................................. 13

How natural regeneration is influenced by the nurse trees densities......................................... 14

Discussion ............................................................................................................................................. 15

Browsing and bark striping pressure ......................................................................................... 16

Density of nurse trees versus growth and quality of target trees

Density of nurse trees versus natural regeneration

Economical aspects? ....................................................................................................................

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Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................ 12

References ............................................................................................................................................ 13

Acknowledgments ................................................................................................................................. 14
The aim of my study is to analyze the following hypotheses:

The quality and growth of the target trees would be stimulated differently by the planting
density of the nurse trees.

Nurse tree growth and yield is positively influenced by different planting densities.

The presence of the nurse tree would reduce the density of natural regeneration.

Nurse tree growth and yield is positively influenced by different planting densities.