The tree-ring chemistry of declining sugar maple in central Ontario, Canada

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 613-618

  Watmough, Shaun ^a   Brydges, Tom ^a   Hutchinson, Tom ^b,c  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Environment Canada ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; NUTRITION; TREE RING;

CANADA;

ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 0033398627     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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43. The autors thank Eric P.S. Sager for assistance with field sampling.
44. First submitted 27 July 1998. Accepted for publication after revision 2 March 1999.