Effects of a major ice storm on the foliage of four New England conifers

Ecoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 342-350

  Boyce, Richard L ^a   Friedland, Andrew J ^b   Vostral, Chandra B ^a   Perkins, Timothy D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductance; Conifers; Foliage; Ice storm; Physiology; Water relations; Winter injury

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; FOLIAGE; ICE STORM; INJURY; WINTER;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFERALES; CONIFEROPHYTA; CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; PICEA; PICEA RUBENS; PINUS RESINOSA;

EID: 0346934914     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2003.11682783     Document Type: Article

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