A carbon balance model of growth and self-pruning in trees based on structural relationships

Forest Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-24

  Mäkelä, Annikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

carbon allocation; Pinus sylvestris; process based model; wood quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030939505     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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