Leaf features of silver birch (Betula pendula Roth). Variability within and between two populations (uncontaminated vs Pb-contaminated and Zn-contaminated site)

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-88

  Franiel, Izabella ^a   Więski, Kazimierz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Betula pendula; Discriminant analysis; Leaf morphometry; PCA; Zinc lead dump

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTAMINATION; LEAD; VEGETATION; ZINC;

BIOCLIMATIC REGION; BIOMETRIC METHODS; MORPHOMETRIC VARIABLES; VEGETATIVE SEASONS;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; LEAD; LEAVES; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS; POLLUTION; ZINC;

BETULA; BETULA PENDULA;

EID: 12444347831     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-004-0366-3     Document Type: Article

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