Birch (Betula pendula Roth.) responses to high UV-B radiation

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-88

  Wulff, Anu ^a   Anttonen, Seija ^a   Pellinen, Riikka ^d   Savonen, Eira Maija ^b   Sutinen, Marja Liisa ^b   Heller, Werner ^c   Sandermann Jr , Heinrich ^c   Kangasjärvi, Jaakko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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