Comparing tree-ring chronologies and repeated timber inventories as forest monitoring tools

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 216-227

  Biondi, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Biomonitoring; Dendrochronology; Dendroecology; Forest health; Growth trends; Pinus ponderosa; Ponderosa pine; Stand dynamics; Timber inventories; Tree ring chronologies

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; TREE RING;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 0033081173     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0216:CTRCAR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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