How local is local? Identifying the scale of adaptive variation in ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.): Results from the nursery

Forestry

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-143

  Boshier, David ^a   Stewart, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DECISION MAKING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR;

EID: 17444374954     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpi013     Document Type: Article

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