A process model analysis of environmental limitations on the growth of Sitka spruce plantations in Great Britain

Forestry

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-79

  Waring, R H ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROWTH; PLANTATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

GYMNOSPERMAE; PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 0033950063     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/73.1.65     Document Type: Article

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