Improving estimates of total tree ages based on increment core samples

Ecoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 534-542

  Villalba, Ricardo ^a,c   Veblen, Thomas T ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Austrocedrus chilensis; Forest age structure; Increment core samples; Northern Patagonia; Tree age determination

Indexed keywords

AUSTROCEDRUS; AUSTROCEDRUS CHILENSIS; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 0001298460     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1997.11682433     Document Type: Article

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