The Effects of Herbicides in South Vietnam. Part B. Working Papers: The Ecological Role of Bamboos in Relation to the Military Use of Herbicides on Forests of South Vietnam

Abstract

The principal objective of the study was to find out whether bamboos had replaced broad-leaved trees in the forests of South Vietnam (SVN) as a result of military defoliation, and, if so, on how large a scale. The work was primarily concerned with the Closed forest (Foret dense) because of the much greater amount of commercially valuable timber it contains compared to forests of other types. Secondary objectives were to investigate: The soil; the effect of herbicides on the spread of bamboo; and the economic value of bamboo.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0779017

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People

  • William B. Drew

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Reconnaissance
  • Agent Orange
  • Agriculture
  • Asia
  • Botany
  • Defoliation
  • Education
  • Forests
  • Herbicides
  • Observation
  • Plant Pathology
  • Plants
  • Plants (Botany)
  • South Vietnam
  • Trees
  • Vegetation
  • Vietnam

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  • Educational Psychology
  • Forest Ecology
  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.