Bottles to trees: Plastic beverage bottles as an alternative nursery growing container for reforestation in developing countries.

Reforestation is needed globally to help restore degraded sites, combat desertification, protect watersheds, and provide forest products. This involves planting forest tree seedlings grown in local nurseries, but technologies to produce quality seedlings are lacking in developing countries. Modern n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Safiullah Khurram, Owen T Burney, Robert C Morrissey, Douglass F Jacobs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5451022?pdf=render