Trembling aspen height-age models for British Columbia

Northwest Science

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 202-212

  Nigh, Gordon D ^a   Krestov, Pavel V ^a   Klinka, Karel ^a  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; TREE; YIELD;

CANADA;

EID: 0036621539     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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